It isn't theft. It's acquiring. People should not leave items laying about. Though learning they're the items of the rich makes more sense why they don't seem to care. The poor don't leave cherished items just lying about.

[Sadness and bitterness tinge his tones as he gives her a look.]

I know that you wouldn't likely know if our worlds were the same or not. The Templars are not as open as they once were when they ravaged the world, and those that fight them do so from the shadows.

[Unless you're Jacob Frye, but that's another story.]

But if people are paying that much for the ability to communicate, they have won. [He holds up a hand.] And don't tell me that this inflation changes things. You already made it clear you did not have one because of the cost.