"You can always cook up a story about how I'm from a tribe not too far from yours or something that explains why I started yelling at you in a barbaric language and how you found out I had these skills. I suspect most people would have just had me work as a menial when not being used for other things," Claudia commented. "Renting is fine, as long as you pick someone who isn't going to be a monster if I make mistakes."

The last thing she wants is to leave this time period with lash-marks or something equally horrid.