Oh yes, I have seen those here and there, or something like them. And the binding, that sounds like a contract.

[Way too much like one, he shuddered as he thought of his own situation.]

...calling that being off sounds a bit peculiar, but the small folk are strange. I met one once that just desperately wanted to grind something something, anything.

[That had been an adventure.]

Yes he is. He's had a bit of a harder time adjusting to all of this I think. He is, ah, very religious back home and even works part time as a clergyman.