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How about Nikita performing in a tavern, where Anthorn is drinking one night, when Faircaira is taken?
Let us watch the action over Nikita shoulder, see the locals reactions, as they spill into the streets to watch her being taken away.
Have Faircaira press something into Nikitas hand as she is dragged by..Hear the rumours about her unborn baby, have Nikita's suspicions raised as Anthorn is the only patron not to have gone outside to watch the action..why didn't he watch? Who is he hiding from?
Have her troubled by the young girls plight, only to have Anthorn demand the item that Faircaira had given to her..it was meant for him, he says. Etc. Two new people meet, you introduce the main thread of faircairas abduction and hint at the reasons for it, and can do all sorts of mysterious things with Anthorn's murky past.
Just some suggestions for you, good luck!