Nowaru

Did you really play all night?..
Raymond mentally flipped a coin. Heads. Again, heads. After eleven mental flips, seven heads and only four tails. Well, it seems not this time... The plan for the robbery was already ready and good, but now we'll just eat, and that will be enough.
-- What do you mean? -- Hanelion pulled his hand back as if afraid to stain the owner's clean brush with his paw. -- I am old and sick," he said in an even more creaky voice than usual. "I can't do anything and I'm useless. I see that you are willing to accept me out of kindness, but I won't be able to reciprocate. And being a burden on someone would be unbearable for me.
-- I work hard at another job," he noted after a pause. "Perhaps someday I will make a real breakthrough in magic. And then - yes, then they will talk about me!" The sorcerer coughed. "If I live long enough..."