"You're welcome," Tobias replied, a little surprised to find a street urchin with manners. Or well, some manners - he could excuse a child for talking with a full mouth when it hadn't eaten all day.

"Well, there's more where that came from. I have a farm up near Castleton and I could use an extra boy. It's hard work, but there's plenty of food and the air's cleaner than ye'll find it in this town, and yer free to roam the moors when yer not needed." He knew from experience that the wild heights surrounding the farm offered plenty of adventure for a young lad.