Joshua sighed as he wandered on his patrol. It got rather quiet and boring as the patrol continued on without incident; a lively morning followed by a boring rest of the day... not too bad in his eyes. As he continued to walk on, the insults and jeers continued from passing civilians, but he continued to not give them any attention, knowing that they wanted him to be incited to be yet another incident of the Masks overstepping their power, but he wasn't going to be another case for them to try to destroy the Masks. He was with the group for a reason; to uphold the king's law and to make sure that everyone in the town was safe, but he couldn't help but notice that the king was starting to implement more... 'strigent' laws and gave the guards more power to arrest people, and he didn't mind a part of it, but there were some things about it that concerned him slighty. Joshua's mind also floated on who caused the blindness... it was surely an Elf, but who specifically?

Joshua conitnued on his patrol until he looked up at the sun. Close enough I guess.... Without saying a word he slipped into a side street and began to skulk about. It was strange to use the Guild's tactics against them, but all's fair in war after all, and Joshua was hellbent on taking them down. He carefully climbed up a building and reached the rooftop before walking and looking down at the street below. It was strange to him how many people missed an obvious person standing on a roof sticking out like a sore thumb when he wasn't in their immediate field of view; he figured that the whole 'out of sight, out of mind' phrase did ring true in this moment. This also allowed him to see much more of what was going on from where he was, and so far nothing was happening... except for three Masks carrying a fourth back to the guardhouse. There wasn't blood anywhere, so Joshua must've figured that whoever was wielding the dark magic had struck once again, this time taking down the Mask by... he guessed either paralyzation or blindness... scratch that, he was squirming around, so maybe it was blindness after all. He started to walk where the Masks were coming from, hoping that there were some witnesses to the whole exchange.

Joshua continued to patrol from the rooftops, carefully taking looks down at the streets below as he moved. On rare occasion someone would pop out their head and bark at him for being on their roof, but one look at the mask would quiet them down and they'd leave him be, so he didn't really bother with anyone unless they went face-to-face with him on that issue. He hopped the short distance from one set of roofs to another before taking another look at a brand new street, and to his surprise something was going down after all. A shorter girl had stolen a bag from a more well off woman, and because the victim in question was... more rotund in frame and not used to running dead sprints comapared to the thief, she was not able to keep up, but she did call out for the Masks to arrest the criminal, and that was all that he needed to get into action, but he was going to wait.

Instead of climbing down to the street and initiate a chase with the girl he stayed on the rooftops and tailed her as she made her escape. Two loitering Masks did start a footchase with her, but she lost them thanks to several turns weaving through the different buildings, but Joshua continued to tail her despite her best effort. She then made her way into a decrepid building and Joshua waited two minutes before making his move. He made his way to the ground before slowly walking up to the doorframe. Without any warning he kicked the door in and instantly made a beeline to the girl, who was caught relaxing on a chair. Joshua was made aware of this detail quickly as she swung the chair at his head but missed and gave him the chance to tackle her and arrest her, but not without a scrum beforehand. "I don't know why you thieves always think that punching Masks in the face is such a good idea." Joshua noted as he picked the girl up and pushed her out of the hideout. He took her to the main street and called for a second to accompany him to the jail so she could be processed, but the sight of a Mask having a girl in cuffs, not to mention that she was visibally roughed up as well, didn't really fly with the citizens. A few wandered to Joshua and berated him for how he was treating the criminal, but he ignored their calls and began walking to the cell with the second Mask as backup in case things went South.

Joshua was out in the streets the next morning, hearing that the girl he tracked down and arrested the day before was being charged, so that was a plus. However, he couldn't stand around and celebrate that small victory, as people depended on him and the other Masks for safety, even though a few of them didn't want the Masks there at all. He was strolling along the same streets once again, getting an odd look now and again but he drifted through without a care since nothing illegal or dangerous was going on. The patrol was so uneventful that he even stopped to momentarily help a shopkeeper lift something heavy onto a shelf. After more walking he found the marketplace, the perfect spot for thieves to boost items.

With a groan he began his time in the market, finding that staying in a short area was ungodly boring unless a criminal made a move and something happened, but much to his luck something did happen. A crowd had gathered in an area, clear that they were watching something, and in addition to that, he heard someone shouting about their eyes. Dark magic is at work. Whoever blanketed the stall market yesterday must be here! With haste he moved to the group and was about to push his way through, but the perpertrator came to him. A girl was able to slip out of the group right in front of him, and he recognized her from yesterday. "You! Stop right there!" Joshua said with authority, stepping forward, preparing himself to grab her before she was able to get away.