There's a price to be paid, for the kind of healing Gavroche has to offer. A price in energy, for some things, but that only applies to the minor wizardries ( Read more... )

The Floating Market is the safest place in London Below, as long as the enforced truce holds. This may be why the door chose to bring Matilda here ( Read more... )

He promised Tom he wouldn't go out into London Below alone.

But he never promised he wouldn't go out at all.

So when the rats come to him, a score of them or more, and tell him there's something they want him to see, he only hesitates a little before he goes.

The rats count as an escort... right?