Pumpkin's grandparents immigrated to northern Bauhinia from Westavia. His family still kept many of their Westavian traditions.
After joining the army and getting recruited into the MSS as Halcyon's apprentice, he was flipped into a Morelandian spy.
Though, as people prodded him, he freaked out and thought about telling on himself and Halcyon to get a lighter punishment. Halcyon killed him to shut him up. But he survived and scramed to Westavia to find the old village his grandparents came from. All he had was a name and a vague direction. And a Westavian passport he got from a forger, bearing his picture and the name "Curly."
He went into Westavia and, after getting directions to his village, took a train to the city closest to it. On the train he met Candlelight, who was going to the same place.