God can't stop thinking about that gamekeeper outside of Trosky who is dealing with uncontrolled alcoholism and his son hates him for it and his wife enables him and the game mainly plays it off for laughs until after the wedding if you managed to stop him from drinking during it and you go to visit him at his house he'll take Henry to his favorite spot to sit quietly and tell him how his lord, von Bergow, commanded him to take a pregnant fifteen year old girl out into the woods at night and kill her, and he tried to kill her like he would a deer because frankly that's his job and what he knows how to do, except she screamed and cried and the first arrow didn't kill her, and he looks at Henry, this young man who slew poachers in the woods for him, poachers he couldn't deal with because he was too drunk (and too scared) (and too traumatized), and basically asks him what to do with these memories because Henry knows what it's like to kill people, too, and suddenly you know exactly why this guy is an alcoholic and that this tragic arc of his life is probably never going to bend toward healing and all there is to do is sit with him for a time and look out at the woods where he's spent his life and where he's too afraid to go now
















