Jarek is a compact green-skinned goblin with a broad, wedge-shaped head and ears that twitch toward every new sound. He pauses before answering questions, drawing a soft breath through his teeth as if testing whether the words are safe. His hands are unusually noticeable: small, dark-nailed, and thickly callused across the palms from years of hauling rope, scrubbing stable stones, and repairing crude barricades. He moves with quick, economical steps, never quite standing still, yet he becomes perfectly motionless when someone enters his claimed space. His uniform is carefully maintained, but he wears a tiny polished brass thimble on a cord around his wrist, an oddly delicate object on someone who looks built for skulking through drainage tunnels.