[Hannibal was pleased as well, pleased that there seemed to be a point of connection here. It would be the perfect opportunity to take this boy in and...

...teach him some manners.]

I had good role models in my uncle and aunt, who came for me when I was thirteen. Being an orphan has nothing to do with intelligence, if you truly take interest in something you can study it without schooling. I studied mathematics by calculating shadows at different times of day, and drew from life whenever I could.