I Am What The Universe Made Me

People See In Stories What They’re Looking For, My Young Friend.

When Men Fought, They Connected. You Became Brothers As You Traded Blows.

Expectations Were Like Fine Pottery. The Harder You Held Them, The More Likely They Were To Crack.

Of All The Recruits In His Cohort, He Had Learned The Quickest. How To Hold The Spear, How To Stand To Spar. He’d Done It Almost Without Instruction. That Had Shocked Tukks. But Why Should It Have? You Were Not Shocked When A Child Knew How To Breathe. You Were Not Shocked When A Skyeel Took Flight For The First Time. You Should Not Be Shocked When You Hand Kaladin Stormblessed A Spear And He Knows How To Use It.

Her Aunt Sol Had Once Told Shai To Smile At The Worst Insults And Snap At The Minor Ones. That Way, No Man Would Know Your Heart.