#gatherings even though they’re meant to be professional always feel like family reunions and yet will only got that after almost dying like

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I just realized that Will didn’t get the actual gathering experience for so long. His first one was interrupted by the Kalkaras, maybe he went to the second one, but his third? His fourth? The ones where he should have been celebrating, the ones where he should have been making friends and meeting the other rangers that he could have looked up to? He was in Skandia, forgetting everything because of warmweed. He was fighting in wars, battling enemies so much larger than him, and he was doing it almost entirely alone. He didn’t get to sing songs and show the other rangers his mandola, or yell to them Greybeard Halt, for at least 4 years. He barely got the full ranger experience until he was an adult.

#rangers apprentice #john flanagan #will treaty #ranger's apprentice #halt o'carrick #books #horace altman #gilan davidson #gatherings even though they’re meant to be professional always feel like family reunions and yet will only got that after almost dying like #five times #will treaty I’m so sorry #he deserved better #at least he had half #he did say that halt was family enough for anyone in kings of clonmel so #ok that’s all #thank you for coming to this ted talk