Svin and Flat were sent to the Clock Tower... er, think of that as both the head of government for the Mage Association and its university in one... when they were nine. Their family situations were bad for a number of reasons. Flat's family were trying to get rid of him after failing to assassinate him a number of times, and I won't speak of Svin's situation. They fell into my care after a while and I took legal guardianship of them.
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Gray, I met in a graveyard at honestly the lowest point of my life. She used to be its keeper. Her situation... there's no easy way to talk of her situation, even with here I think of it quite a bit. Just that she needed out in whatever way she could take. She ended up coming with me back to London as my apprentice and bodyguard.
[Bitterness.]
Back then, I was incapable of defending myself directly.
[He needed someone to fight for him.]
... none of them had easy beginnings or will have easy lives. That's... just not in the cards for most of my kind. But I am so very proud of what they grew to be.
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Gray, I met in a graveyard at honestly the lowest point of my life. She used to be its keeper. Her situation... there's no easy way to talk of her situation, even with here I think of it quite a bit. Just that she needed out in whatever way she could take. She ended up coming with me back to London as my apprentice and bodyguard.
[Bitterness.]
Back then, I was incapable of defending myself directly.
[He needed someone to fight for him.]
... none of them had easy beginnings or will have easy lives. That's... just not in the cards for most of my kind. But I am so very proud of what they grew to be.