Alyxander shook his head. "Sorry, I do not remember the village." He answered. "And yes, I am an orphan. Probably have no kin to rely on, not that I would need to do so any more." He fell silent for a second, trying to remember exactly what the debt was that his family owed to Lady Malora and her husband. "My parents had bought the land we lived on from your sister, but at that time could not afford to pay for it. They tried to pay it back bit by bit, but Lady Malora kept on raising the price, claiming that over time the debt had grown to a higher amount. This had been going on a while before I was even born, so by the time the house fire happened the debt was far too great to be paid off in full. She thought it was a kindness if she took me in, as I was too young to survive on my own, and had me work off the debt by being a slave. It seemed she'd thought she'd regained her fair share of the debt in what I'd had to suffer, and was getting bored of my company it seemed.... which is how I ended up down in the wharf and becoming Miss Kate's gift."