Letter To No One – 1

I’m on the 8th book of the Drizzt Do’Urden series.  Starless Night.  Wulfgar’s been taken by the Yochlol and the others are learning how to go on without him.  Drizzt is going back into the Underdark to find out what’s going on in the dark elves’ minds.

I wonder.  Did you reread Legacy just before you decided to abandon your promise to your grandfather not to curse?  Did you relate it to Drizzt giving up his vow never to kill another of his kin, evil as they were?

I don’t remember you telling me a Yochlol took Wulfgar.  Of course, I wouldn’t have known what that meant back then.  When I read it today, though . . .  It grabbed ahold of him and I knew . . .  The tortures he must go through.

Torture . . .

I wonder what you’d say now about these books.  I honestly wonder how you compare yourself to Drizzt, or even Artemis Entreri.  Except for he fact that now you’re completely ruthless and seemingly completely undaunted by anyone’s feelings but your own, you’re nothi8ng like Artemis Entreri.  And the very idea that you would compare yourself to Drizzt!  It’s comical, in a way.  Because though it’s been tested, he’s yet to give up his honor and his principles simply because ruthlessness suited him better.

What do you truly question?  Frankly, I doubt anything.  You so easily turn your back on people now, just because they don’t suit your idea of how someone should be.  You once claimed to me that you never wanted to forget the taunts and the insults other kids rained upon you, because once you did forget, once you let yourself fully let go of those words, you’d be capable of doing that to another person.  Of trampling over them, of making them feel as low, as worthless, as they always made you feel.

Nice to know you’ve forgotten all those insults hurled at you.

Kate.