As the knight headed down the street, her green gaze flickered around, keeping an eye out for any sign that she was getting closer to the former thief. The sound of his footsteps had disappeared and she was beginning to think that perhaps she had made a mistake in her judgment. She had felt certain that the dropped gold piece had just been a decoy but without any further sign of him, she was tempted to turn back, thinking she might have a chance of catching up with him if she went the other way now. 

Penelope was just beginning to turn around when brief movement caught her attention. For a moment, she thought that she had just imagined it but then the sound of running footsteps told her that she hadn't. A grin crossed her lips and she quickly changed directions, sprinting off down the alley she had heard the footsteps sounding from. It seemed her original judgment had been right after all. She hurried after him, trying to follow where the source of the sound was coming from to the best of her abilities.

She was just beginning to think that she was catching up to him when the footsteps suddenly disappeared again. She rounded a corner and slowed her pace as she tried to listen for which direction he had gone in. However, she was just greeted by silence and an empty alley. Penelope clicked her tongue, knowing he much have been using some trick. Was he just hiding somewhere nearby? Perhaps he had ducked into a nearby alley to avoid her. Going off of that thought, she moved with more stealth now as she headed down one of the nearby alleyways. 

Traveling down it, she found no success in trying to locate where he had disappeared to. Penelope backtracked to where she had lost him and tried to look down the other nearby alley ways to see if he had gone a different direction than she had originally suspected. Unfortunately she didn't have much success there either. Whatever trick he had pulled, it had been successful. The knight crossed her arms over her chest, knowing it was time to admit defeat. 

"Alright, alright I give up." She called out, speaking a bit loudly as she wasn't sure how far away or close he was to her.