"Might work fine! But an important thing to keep in mind if he ends up meeting any other halflings, if you do decide that paid halflings are the way to go. Which I still recommend against, on the grounds that virtually every stable state runs on some amount of slavery and this isn't a coincidence, and if you intend to hide that from him it's going to keep rearing its head in inconvenient places."

"Might work fine! But an important thing to keep in mind if he ends up meeting any other halflings, if you do decide that paid halflings are the way to go. Which I still recommend against, on the grounds that virtually every stable state runs on some amount of slavery and this isn't a coincidence, and if you intend to hide that from him it's going to keep rearing its head in inconvenient places. But - obviously there are a lot of considerations."