"Better to have a teacher that remembers getting in trouble and can help get you out." Jacob says, the obvious fondness in his tone and the smile on his face only tempered by the recent loss of the boy.

"That's when I first started saying he was my son. There were policemen in the pay of the Templars who would try to get him charged with this or that, and without a parent, those kids end up in prison or debtor's jail. I would go pay the fine and sign a docket to say I'd make sure he didnt do whatever made-up crime theyd pinned on him. And then... well. Then I just adopted him."