D.B. Jackson Interviews Ethan Kaille, Thieftaker
Today I have the pleasure of publishing an interview I’ve had with Ethan Kaille, one of Boston’s leading thieftakers.
Welcome, Mr. Kaille, to my humble office, and thank you for taking time to speak with Black Gate. Please begin by introducing yourself to our readers. Who is Ethan Kaille?
I am no one of consequence, really. I work in Boston as a thieftaker — for a negotiated fee, I recover property that has been stolen, and return it to its rightful owner.
Surely there is more to your life than thieftaking. What did you do before you began to work in your current profession?
[Long pause.] I don’t usually like to speak of it, but if you must know, I was a prisoner. Years ago, as a young, foolish man, I took part in a mutiny aboard a ship called the Ruby Blade. When the mutiny failed, I was placed in the brig, and eventually was tried and convicted. The Admiralty Court spared my life, but sentenced me to fourteen years at labor on a sugar plantation in the Caribbean.
And before all of that, I was a sailor in the British navy, just like my father before me, and his father before him. I enlisted during the War of the Austrian Succession and fought at Toulon as a crewman aboard the HMS Stirling Castle.
When was the first time that you became aware of your powers as a conjurer?
I don’t know what you’re talking about.
