I saw him once pulling whistlepig spines out of a stray redbone hound, keeping him calm with a soothy voice and holding him off from snapping while the spears came out. You could see he valued what he could do with his hands.

they required him as a safeguard against the demon and a curber of other people's crimes.

But I have to warn you that this probably one of the shitiest bits of real estate in the world.

back-breakingly hard work