The girls watch him walking past wondering if maybe today is the day he picks to use one of them. Emil ignores their stares as he goes into the office and is met by the manager who tells him he will be supervising on the women to see if he can find the snake in her grass. Emil thought he heard her wrong so he asks her to repeat herself just to make sure of what he thought he heard.
Emil feels weird about spying but all he really has to do is make sure the money is trading hands at the right amount and no one is stealing straight from the payments. Emil walks along the wall and watches in for when they get payments but ignores the action going on in these rooms. He doesn't see anything too out of the normal so he goes back and reports to the madam.
What he saw she tells him nothing was out of the normal so her rat must be something from the outside and she sends him to look for someone else that could be stealing from the outside coming in. Emil walks around the brothel and he finds a spot that no one had been around for a bit that is hidden behind a box just covers it so the wind isn't blowing through and isn't leaking water.
Emil moves the box and sees a hole in the wall that is covered but the cover has been loosened and there is some muddy hand prints that look fresh on the floor that are child size hands. He pulls the light weight box that was covering the hidden spot and puts a heavier container in front of the hole. Figuring if the rat is in side they will be trapped if they come back out here to escape from the brothel and will probably panic or just plane give up and submit to him capturing them.
Emil goes to check small spaces in the rooms and waiting areas he thinks someone small enough could hide in. He catches sight of a small boy from under a chair moving toward the managers office keeping himself as small and quiet as he can be, he looks like he is in pretty beaten up clothes and a bit dirty. He follows after the boy who is now hiding behind a sliding wall and watches him wait till the manager leaves her office locking it behind herself to go out and talk to some of the girls about potential new clients that are looking into them.
(W/C 493)