Better to do it...

"Death" by Adam Chmielowski (1870)

"'Tell yourself that I'm the cause of all your woes if it makes you happy! Tell yourself I'm the merciless one, the murderous one, the bloodthirsty one, but ask yourself who I learned it from. I had the best master! Play at being the good man if you please, the man with no choices, but we both know what you really are. Peace? You'll never have peace, Bloody-Nine. You're made of death!'

What would have happened if Ferro did know the word for sorry in the common tongue? Would her elbow-in-the-face been such a death sentence to their relationship? Or would it have naturally fallen apart along with their futile quest?

Would their relationship been long and full of warm and cherished memories? Probably not.

Do they deserve better than the revenge that they thought they needed, and where they ended up because of that? Absolutely yes.

On second thought, things would be worse.

Reading the series for the first time (just finished LAOK!) and this is the bulk of what I've learned, I think. That and Bayaz is a slimy, miserable little man.