And for six years, he wasn't.
But all it took was one mistake, one slip-up, and it was over. He was brought in by the Patrol, and placed on trial.
That was when the Benvolio family stepped in. A "representative" of the family visited him one day in prison, and told him that they could get him off death row, out of prison. Normally, Kit would have been suspicious of such a convenient offer, but fear for his life led to his accepting without thinking.
The Benvolios were true to their word- Kit never asked how, but he assumed they'd pulled some strings (and maybe murdered a few people). That was when the trouble started. The family didn't hesitate to remind Kit that they'd done him a favor, and he owed them.
When you owe the Benvolio family, you do not have an option about paying them back. And if they decide their favor was considerable, you do not have a choice about what you do to make it up.
Kit most certainly did not. He went from free-lance bounty hunter to errand boy, doing what the family told him, when they told him. In the beginning he tried to refuse. That night, he awoke with a knife to his throat.
Needless to say, he did not refuse again. But Kit wasn't so easily dissuaded. He listened for any intimation of a place he could escape to, a play where the Benvolios did not hold the sway they did on the worlds he knew.
And one night, in the dark corner of a bar, he found his sanctuary.


