Dec-21-2010, 02:50 PM (UTC)
But how then was Chiv "broken"? I always assumed that word here meant things with this apprentice didn't go well, he or she couldn't handle the pressure of being tested by Shrewd and lost his/her mind or betrayed the king or something awful happened. I realise now the word could also mean "broken" like when you "break in" a wild horse, ie, teach the horse that it must obey humans.
Hmm.
Hmm.
"Green nubs on the dry sticks of the clematis promised that the appearance of death was not death itself." - Ship of Destiny