"You could go to an monastery, they would probably shelter you for a bit." He scratched his chin, "I don't really care how you lived your life, what it is now is that you are my student and you will not steal. It is against my morals." He took another draft, "You will need to strengthen your body, after all a strong body is needed to house a strong mind, so I've been told. While you are my disciple, you will learn more than just swordsmanship. I will make sure you are literate and able to reason for yourself. You will have to learn to read and become familiar in history of this continent. But the studying will come later, perhaps I will teach you how to write and enjoy reading along the way but for history, you'll have to wait." He fell silent as a man placed two bowls of stew on the table and left.<br/><br/>"We have to rise early tomorrow, I'll need to consult the head priest about taking you in. It shouldn't have any effect on the ritual but just to be sure anyway."<br/><br/>(Okay, I was thinking of having Luke to be in some sort of arcane tournament played across the continent, where the selected people have to kill off each other to obtain victory. Perhaps Junta could also be one of the plentiful Soul Classes which are embedded into each of the participants which grants them special attributes. To name a few of the classes: Paladin, Archer, Caster, Sabre, Lancer, Sorcerer, Berserker, Demon, Assassin ... etc. So we can have the two of them go around to defeat all the others. Sounds interesting?)