Diana Gabaldon. Traveler. Book 1. Mazes of fate (№ 428510)

At these words, Jamie suddenly realized that the boys perceive him as a romantic character. He lives alone in a cave, hunts at nightfall, emerges from a foggy night all dirty, overgrown, covered with bright red stubble. Of course, at their age, it seems like living an outcast and hiding in a damp, cramped cave in the middle of a moorland is a wonderful adventure. At fifteen, sixteen and ten years old, they do not even suspect how guilt, bitter loneliness or a burden of responsibility from which it is impossible to free themselves can torment them.