“His story is a sad one to be sure. Found on the streets as a newborn. A family took him in that already had nine children they could hardly feed. The father died of oxidous poisoning when working in the mines… terrible conditions those mines… and the mother followed just a year later. Suicide. Nasty business. I suspect she struggled keeping the family afloat after her husband passed, and I’m sure she succumbed to the grief of it all. Poor DeLuca was only five when she went, but he still remembers. He was the one who found her. The two oldest boys joined the royal army and were sent to the
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World Building
