A letter from his mother, sitting there as though goading him. The story of his brother’s arrest and exile. The subtle intimation that he should return to the Anvil. He should feel guilty for refusing, but every time he thought about her it only made him angry, filling him with spite, and the more he tried to put it from his mind the worse it plagued him. How dare she insinuate such demands? He owed her nothing.
He wanted to go earlier, wtf?!
