The child had found his home in Havengal quickly discovering that it would not be the refuge that his people had been looking for. A guard had been the on to find him perched on an uncovered battlement. Almost invisible he was only found do to his defining wail.
The man who found him could only speculate that a stork losing his way in the snow mistook the battlements for a predatory bird and dropped its haul to ensure its escape. The first thought of the commander was to hang this man from the same battlements. Upon turning around the man could think of no better explanation. The boy was named "Uccello" for bird.
Kello grew to the age of eight under the watch of a small orphanage. The watchmen had wanted to keep him but figured even talented men like themselves could not both watch for men and after a child.
Kello was taught to read and write, to speak words of politeness to his teachers, and use those same words sparingly with his peers. The man who found him had become his godfather looking after his devotion to god. Whether the man failed his job due to his fault of his own or to the boy's resistance, which he found to be as strong as the walls he found him on, he became very much an atheist.
By his eighth birthday, the orphanage had had enough dismissing the boy to the streets. This had been a major oversight by the boy who figured that god-fearing women would not condemn a boy to such a life. Such a life desolate life could not be wished upon the worst creatures.
Excrement and trash would line the same streets the boy slept this life was only comparable to that of a sewer rat. But even then in the case of rain could swim to higher ground and in the case of cold could crawl to a warmer place.
Kello found the life of a pickpocket to be much more fulfilling. It had only taken a few weeks for this boy to give up sorting through trash for sorting through pockets. The first few attempts had been commendable but poorly executed. Before his first successful snag, he found himself chased by a victim and guard and even managed to snag a purse full of rocks a common decoy.
Kello felt guilty for making the guards that he had known so well doing extra cardio but could not find it in himself to ask for help. They had all known of him being ousted by the orphanage and not one had come to claim him.
It took one year for Kello to become proficient at pickpocketing. Finding a union of companions to help him along the way. Kello felt he would never again find himself sorting through trash bins. His content was short-lived.