Simply Sam’s Reviews > Assassin's Apprentice > Status Update

Gah! I hate Regal soooo much.

This has taken a very sad turn. Boy, Fitz, Thomas, Bastard. He doesn't even have a proper name much less get treated like a proper person. I just want to hug him and tell him everything will be okay.

Days of his belittling should have made me numb to his mockery. Instead, I came to believe much of what he said, and tried futilely to change. This is one of the powers a bully wields.

Rrrr..Galen is such an ass!! I'd like to take his little crop and do a few things myself. At least we're finally learning what the Skill is.

I resolved to follow Burrich’s advice for a young man dealing with elderly women: be attentive and polite, cheerful and pleasant of mien. Old women were easily won over by a personable young man. Burrich said so. I have a feeling this may not go as planned...

Just know, from the beginning, that I’m going to be teaching you how to kill people. For your king. Not in the showy way Hod is teaching you, not on the battlefield where others see and cheer you on. No. I’ll be teaching you the nasty, furtive, polite ways to kill people.

You’re not especially strong, or fast, or bright. Don’t think you are. But you’ll have the stubbornness to wear down anyone stronger, or faster, or brighter than yourself.