Essun broke Nassun's hand 😳

I didn't remember that. Gods, that's so fucked up. Essun was a terrible mother. Yeah, I know: Not entirely her fault—she's been feared and hated by stills her whole life, she was raised by a paramilitary organization that taught with violence and punishment, and she was trying to make her daughter safe in a world that would kill her just for being who she is—but at some point every parent has to take responsibility for their own actions and can't just blame the way they were raised for the awful things they do to their children.

Intentionally breaking your child's hand to teach a lesson absolutely lands you in the "terrible parent" category.

Fuck me.

And then Nassun comes to love Schaffa. Fucking Schaffa! Deer gods, this is all so twisted.

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