Watching boy of Sınır Sapı

The watching boy of Sınır Sapı is a child in the campaign Zincirsiz ("Unchained"), about twelve or thirteen years old, short-haired, brown-eyed and poorly dressed. Jonathan River called him Don; he is not the grown man of the same name.¹²

The watcher

Coming back after about fifty minutes of keeping watch, Olaf told Jonathan that the captain had come out of his house in anger after looking at his hidden store, and that a boy had been watching the house. When the captain left, the boy joined other children and went off eating an apple, and Olaf lost him in the square; he admitted he had not seen everything the boy did. Olaf thought it the work of a lookout paid for the job, while Jonathan wondered whether the boy might be a shapechanger. They looked for him at the orphanage but did not find him.¹³⁴

At the orphanage

The next day, while Olaf played a ball game with the orphans, he picked out the same boy, who smoked tobacco and was not the nine-year-old Mark. Twice the boy refused to say whom he watched for, and twice turned down Jonathan's money. Jonathan then told the keeper that the boy was a very dangerous born mage, a lie, and had him shut away; the boy went without resisting. Answering Jonathan's Sending, he said only that they would talk. Jonathan explained to Olaf that the witch hunters could not reach him there.⁵⁶²⁷

Tim, the governor's son, described him as one of a band of seven or eight children who now and then fought or stole but whom he counted good children, though he admitted he could not know each of them closely. The veiled man who signed as V, asked whether the boy worked for him, said yes. Jonathan promised to have him let go.⁸⁹¹⁰