Status Updates From Fool's Errand (Tawny Man, #1)

area man 15 years out of his job re-enters the job market and immediately starts making mistakes: the novel

"He saw. He saw despite the years, the beaten boy that still huddled within me, and always would. Somewhere I forever cowered, somewhere I was endlessly unmanned by what had been done to me. It was intolerable that anyone should know that. Even the Fool. Perhaps especially him."

Nighteyes almost made me cry. I just know it will huuuurt

Reading a chapter full of dread and despair only to turn the page and see that the next chapter is called “sacrifice” …*gulp*

the Fool stood but an arm's length away, and all the horror I tried to suppress was in his gaze. The pity mixed with his horror stung me. He saw. He saw, despite all the years, the beaten boy that still huddled within me, and always would. Somewhere I forever cowered, somewhere I was endlessly unmanned by what had been done to me. It was intolerable that anyone should know that. Even my Fool.Perhaps especially him

For a time he simply stared at me, mouth slightly ajar. Then his eyes lit. As he advanced to me, satisfaction shone in his face. “It's perfect,” he breathed. “Exactly as I had hoped. Oh, Fitz, I always imagined that, had I the chance, I could show you off as befitted you. And look at you.”
His use of my name was as astonishing as the way he gripped my shoulders

I’m obsessed w them