Chapter 13:
Rather than bother themselves to get the youth ready to travel, Thaddeus sent the lady of the house out to fetch Dani and get him cleaned and dressed in better clothes. He paid extra for her to find something that might be more approximate for a lad that served an inquisitor than the tattered, filthy rags he wore.
The boy was returned to them… still a boy and yet unable to shave, it seemed. “He must be younger than his height suggests.” Geovanni crowed in laughter as Dani stood before Thaddeus for inspection. He looked thin, too thin. He needed more food, or a stiff wind would surely blow him away.
With a wave of his hand, he dismissed the scribe’s chiding. “Never mind him. We will make a proper gentleman of you yet,” Thaddeus said while he draped a spare cloak over the youn
