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Tet Wikim

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pulled-back-by-shallans-translated-equationsShallan spent weeks copying her father's highstorm-timing equations out of his books and translating the writing into glyphs so Wikim could read them. Handed the sheets in the carriage at the Middlefest Fair he called the gift stupid; alone afterward, he picked up her pencil and began working them, smiling for the first time in years — the small thread by which she pulled him back from the despair he had been planning to end with poison.SA:WoR:Ch 45
carried-blackbane-for-suicide-and-passed-it-to-shallanSitting in the garden after months of Shallan's small mercies, Wikim hands her a small pouch of blackbane leaves he has held onto since the previous year — paralyses the body and the breath, he tells her, and grows more potent the longer it is kept. He admits she has seen through what she has been doing for him, that it has worked anyway, and that he no longer needs the poison.SA:WoR:Ch 48

SA:WoK:I-2 Recovering from his latest melancholy, rushes onto the porch to bring Nan Balat news of a fresh problem
SA:WoR:Ch 39 Stares into the hearth and barely speaks all evening; cracks a half-smile at his sister's joke and then, when the highprince's bastard asks for a lighteyed witness, hisses at Shallan that she should be the one to speak — only she saw what really happened.
SA:WoR:Ch 45 Sits brooding alone in the Davar carriage, refuses Shallan's translated math problems, then picks up her pencil after she leaves and starts solving them.
SA:WoR:Ch 48 Throws a ball for Sakisa and hands Shallan his pouch of blackbane.
SA:WoR:Ch 48 Quietly lays his belt knife on the table for Shallan to take to Mill in trade for Jushu.
SA:WoR:Ch 73 Brings Shallan word of Eylita's arrival, watches the brawl from the doorway, and is the one who realises afterward that the pouch she used on their father was the blackbane he had given her years before.

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