Newling

"[…] Seest thou not by the stripling's face that he be a newling (newcomer) in the town."

“A newling!” Fascinated, but wary not to stand and reach for it, Rhiana kept her ears pricked—and heard another. A newling and its elder protector.

Unlike a newling, I have to have air to breathe, and this idiot is squeezing so hard I can barely draw in a breath.