#nosey

"One man, Burrich. One man making a bad decision. Or who knows what went through his head. Did he think that if he got to the horse, it could carry his wife and children to safety? Or help him battle the slavers? We can't know. But he was only one man. That seems a small foundation upon which to condemn all the Wit."

He exhaled a short breath through his nose. "Fitz. His decision condemned three generations of his family. It did not seem small to anyone who bore that burden. And my grandmother feared that if I were allowed to go on as I had begun, I would do the same. Find an animal, bond to it, and put it above all other considerations. And after she died, for a time, she was right. I did exactly that. As did you. Have you never looked at your own life and said, Take the Wit away, and what changes?' Think on it. If Nosey had not come between you and me, would not we have been closer when you were a boy? It you had not bonded to Smithy, would you have done better with your Skill-lessons? If Nighteyes had not been in your life, could Regal have found excuse to condemn you?”

lord have mercy. this is a pretty understandable reason for burrich’s shame and horror related to the wit. of course, it doesn’t justify his cruelty to fitz. and he was certainly hypocritical for someone who built an entire career on a special connection to animals.

it’s kind of funny that burrich says nosey came between them. in my view, it only created a rift because burrich allowed it to. he was the first and strongest attachment fitz made in buckkeep, and instead of trying to rationalize with him he just froze him out. i know you can only explain so much to a child/adolescent and true understanding of nuanced issues usually comes with age, but you can at least lay the foundation at those ages. i know parenting was a foreign concept to butrich and he got thrown into it but damn. clearly, years later, he’s repeating the same mistakes with swift. maybe try a different approach, bud.

Going back...

To rat...

🤍🖤🍪Team cookie🍪🖤🤍