‘Perhaps a story for a child,’ Wit said. ‘I will tell you one, to get you in the mood. A bunny rabbit and a chick went frolicking in the grass together on a sunny day.’ ‘A chick . . . baby chicken?’ Kaladin said. ‘And a what?’ ‘Ah, forgot myself for a moment,’ Wit said. ‘Sorry. Let me make it more appropriate for you. A piece of wet slime and a disgusting crab thing with seventeen legs slunk across the rocks together on an insufferably rainy day. Is that better?’
