Northstar Vale Souvenirs de Toi

The boy? 

Obediently, Tousaint nodded, willing to follow Viskani’s direction though once she moved out of sight, he glanced to the tall ruddy stranger again, and grinned faintly. 

He wasn’t a boy at all- he was a man, at least as old as Chaudry, he thought. And he looked well enough that Tousaint didn’t feel he needed to be babied though an empty stomach was something he couldn’t see. 

It be up to you, what we be doin’ first. I can take you somewhere to rest, fin’ you somet’ing to eat from a cache on de way. She be…Sometimes very maternal…She mean not’ing by callin’ you a boy. After all- Tousaint did not want this fresh newcomer to get the idea that he would be babied and coddled. If he was to live here, he would be expected to pull his own weight as well.