[color=a36209]"Clearly, no,"[/color] Faolan said in answer to Lucien's question. The small half-smile remained plastered on his lips as he watched the boy take a bite of the bread he'd been offered. To see his eyes light up that way, over the simplest things...it was bittersweet. He knew that the child had had a rough go of his life, it had obviously not started well, but Faolan was now determined to at least point the young man in the right direction. It was all he could hope to do.

A bit of a silence hung between the three of them for a moment as Faolan ripped the bread roll in half and offered one to Lucien before taking a bit out of it. He glanced at the boy, taking small bird-like bites out his piece. The thing looked huge in his small and slender hands. After a moment, Faolan nodded toward the child as he tore another piece from the inside of the bread. [color=a36209]"Don't be shy, there's more where that came from. And wait til you see what I brought for breakfast,"[/color] he said, raising his eyebrows and glancing down into the mouth of the bag, where only he could see the contest.