Pim Cutter
Human, Gravedigger's apprentice
Mumbles when adults are around, suddenly animated and fast-talking around anyone his own age or younger.
The Warm Heart. He wants someone else to deal with the box he found because it terrified him, but he'll show them exactly where it is for the right price or the right story.
Letters from the City. He wants help finding his brother in the city, since he has no coin for travel and no one else who'll take him seriously.
Appearance
Gaunt, restless, dirt permanently under his nails. Wears his older brother's boots two sizes too big, laced tight with twine.
Secret
While digging a new plot he uncovered a sealed iron box holding a still-warm humanoid heart wrapped in oiled cloth — someone reburied it recently, in a grave already a decade old.
Quirks
Collects odd bones and buttons from graves in a tin box
Whistles the same three notes when nervous
Personality traits
Chronically bored and looking for trouble
Secretly braver than he lets on
Ideal
"Something has to happen to me eventually. Might as well go looking."
Bond
His older brother, gone to the city years ago, whose letters stopped coming — Pim keeps digging graves waiting for a reason to leave and follow him.
Flaw
Tells people about the buried thing when he shouldn't, just to seem interesting.