Knowing no other way to save myself, I stole a few coins and ran in the dead of night. Half starved and lost a kindly tinker found me a week later and 12 leagues away. The tinker's name was Kane and offered to take me with him if I would cook clean and mend for him. Becoming fast friends and Kane becoming like the father I never really had I traveled throughout the lowlands of Scotland, Ireland, and Europe. Seeing and learning many things over the next years I was very content with my life. Unfortunately Kane was old and became sick in the summer of my fifteenth year. While we were in Florence, Italy looking for a remedy Kane knew he was going to die and wanting to protect me, Kane struck a bargain with a group of gypsies. Kane traded my abilities and all the wares in his cart for Vicol Cel Rau Stravnos' word to take me in and care for me as if I was one of his own. Kane then handed me the reins to the cart saying it was now mine and walked the opposite way on the road and never have I seen him again and never did I learn why he traveled alone. Since then I have been traveling with Vicol and the Stravnos clan and learning the ways of the romani.