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Ireth
Myth Weaver
I don't know how your castle is organized, but I'd think there are more workers. He could swap with someone else, for his own job needs to be done, too. He could assist in the kitchen, cleaning the kettles under supervision of someone else, carrying wood, pumping up water, feed the pigs, those things. Give him one of those little kids that are always underfoot to be his 'eyes' for getting around.
Many of those seem difficult for a blind guy to do, in my opinion. Especially since he hasn't had much time to adjust to it yet. I'm not sure about giving him a seeing-eye kid, since the majority of the characters in the story don't HAVE them, and those who do are older and their offspring grown but unmarried. That's one of the drawbacks to this story being based on a RP -- it was originally a Hogwarts type setup, and the characters were students and faculty. I kept the location and most of the characters intact, but took away the "school" aspect. Now it's just a settlement of immigrants from Earth in the midst of the woods of Faerie. There's is still magic involved, it's just not learned in classes.
Having someone stay in the infirmary, costing money without working, while he isn't ill or hurt, doesn't seem convincing to me.
Given that these humans are settled in a world with an alien economy that doesn't place value on money, I would think they'd adapt to that somewhat as well. They can't really rely on their Fae neighbors for trade and the like, since the Fae hate them and see them only as playthings; if they need anything they don't already have, they go to the Earthworld for it. But that doesn't happen too often.
Also, I think blindness would certainly qualify someone as "infirm", if not specifically ill or hurt. His clubfoot was bad enough, but this is potentially devastating, at least on an emotional level. And the knowledge that his attacker escaped to do more harm is not helping anyone.