Whether he was clever or not wasn't Hak's concern. He was simply being himself: honest, self-assured, and disinterested in pleasing authorities.

"Only the kind I want to be in." Usually. Hak didn't go out of his way to be in trouble, per se, but he couldn't deny he still got into some forms of it: brawls, gambling, generally trolling the hell out of people. Sometimes the law might squint at him. All the same, he was pretty good at staying on its good side. Jail was no fun, after all.

"I don't have a criminal record if that's your worry."