Tom Natsworthy
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Tom Natsworthy is a fictional character in Philip Reeve's Hungry City Chronicles. He grows up trained to be a historian on the traction city of London.
[edit] Early life
Natsworthy grew up on London in a barren world, devastated by a world-destroying war. His world is where all cities move around on wheels and try to strip other cities of everything, "eating" them. He grows up to be an Apprentice Historian in the Historians' Guild. Natsworthy looks up to his idol, the top historian and writer Thaddeus Valentine. When Natsworthy gets assigned to "Gut" duty, which is work in the dirty area of the city, for fighting with another Aprentice Historian, he meets his idol, Thaddeus Valentine. While on Gut duty, Natsworthy saves Valentine's from an assassination attempt by a mysterious girl whose face is mutilated, who later jumps out a waste chute. Valentine 'becomes evil' as he pushes Tom out of the waste chute too. The girl and Tom keep with each other although she protests. Her name is revealed soon as Hester Shaw.
They follow each other to the ends of the earth and in the end, Hester and Tom have a child called "Wren".
