Prologue:
When - Several months before the first event of Thief 2.
Garret is confronted one morning by a messenger boy who has a letter
for him.
"Dear Garrett,
It has in truth been years since we last met, yet sometimes when I cast my mind
back to those days, it seems only minutes have passed when as children we played
on those dirty streets and lightened the pockets of passer-bys. Although we have
seldom crossed paths since your joining the keepers, I have often thought
and asked after you. Though it with much unexpected pain that I seek an audience
with you now.
As you may already know, I have been wed to Master Greaves, a successful trader
for some years now and have borne him a daughter, Merimee, who will turn eight
this year. So, as you can see, my life has indeed taken a more rewarding turn than
what I ever envisioned in my youth. That is, until recently.
When my mother became widowed all those years ago she found herself without
money enough to support me and sent me as a child to the city where I could work
in one of the many factories there. And yet poverty was not the only reason that I
was sent away it seems. Following the death of my Father, my mother turned to a
cult group there for support whose beliefs and identity were kept a closely
guarded secret. Heather Downs, having such a strong history of Hammer loyalists,
was no place to start joining other religions and yet in those dark times she felt
that she had nowhere else to turn.... (more)