The Grips

The Grips are a gang of thugs in Kholinar who interrogate Grund and appropriate the flatbread (and other food) that Veil has given him for themselves.
A disguised Shallan outside Grund's shop hears one amongst them says that they shouldn't have given Veil a particular book.
After she hears another voice, she then hears a grunt and a whimper, realizing that it's Grund. She looks through a window to see the group of thugs and Grund in a corner holding his stomach.
She shouts at the men and dashes for the doorway. They immediately scatter, though one slams a cudgel onto Grund's head with a sickening crunch.
Though she reaches Grund, he then tells her that he hates her, that they all do because she made herself so obvious bringing food, and that the thugs killed all his friends. That she drew them.
Further, he says that he had to wait for her every day, all day, because if he wasn't there when she came, or if he tried to hide the food she brought, the thugs beat him.
Further still, according to Muri, the Grips are the gang in charge of her area of Kholinar, and that they've had toughs watching them all there for when Veil next arrived.
Wit tells Shallan that when some of the men in the market heard what the Grips eventually did to Grund (i.e., kill him), they finally formed the militia they'd been talking about. They rushed the Grips, forcing them to give up the murderer, then disperse.
==References==
Category:Alethkar (people)
Category:Gangs