First off welcome back

Second, it's any pocket lint collector. You have to be outside a city, on a trade route with a contract, not necessarly in your hands but you have to be running at least one contract. If you happen to catch a thief trying to borrow from you out there, go to the clerk I believe, might be the minister, and ACCUSE <theif> and the thugs will give them a lesson in stealing from traders on the routes. They also protect us on the barges, just not in the city.

Eddrik