"Why? Why do you care?"

Redrawing this. It was the second ever Stormlight scene I drew, from one listening on the audiobook, and I didn't much like it even before I got the kindle version and realised how far off my depiction was. So now, have a sufficiently wet and miserable Kaladin. And a very cute Syl.

Fanart for Shallan Davar from Stormlight Archive.

"It won't be like that for me," Kaladin said. "You told me it would get worse." "It will," Wit said, "but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again. Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you, Kaladin: You will be warm again."

Brandon Sanderson, The Rhythm of War

In a book series that is a veritable cornucopia of inspirational quotes when you struggle with mental health, this chapter takes the cake, and the cherry on top, and the tablecloths while we're at it.

Poor Kal needs a hug. Or a story. And Horneater stew.

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I… Her voice. It’s not right… “Yumi,” he said, tears in his eyes, holding on tight. “We decide what is right. Nightmares can be real. Why not dreams? You have power granted by the spirits. Your whole life—your dozens of lives—you’ve used it to serve. Use it for yourself this once.” But… “Our world, Yumi. Our rules.”

From Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, by Brandon Sanderson. Because art is, and always has been, about what it does to us. To the one shaping it and the one experiencing it.

In a year filled with special reading moments, this one has been the most emotional. And boy, do I wish we could just create AI out of existence.

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