Well, Æana isn't a courtesan. Her "adoptive" dad is seen as unfit to actually adopt her, so she has to stay at an orphanage until she's 16, legal age in her town, but her caretaker has a rather violent hatred of Æana, so Æana runs away to escape the beatings. She's pretty much always had her dad or her friends around, so she isn't used to being alone, I need her to stumble upon someone to make her feel, well, not lonely.