Benuck Fill

Benuck Fill was an inhabitant of Darujhistan.. Benuck Fill's mother and he lived together and had a very tight mother-son bond. But tragedy had struck and Benuck's mother had developed some kind of cancer that seemed to be "eating her up inside". Benuck took gentle care of all of the needs of this dearly beloved parent - watching over her, cleaning her, dressing her, feeding her until she could no longer eat - doing everything he could think of to ameliorate the suffering of her last days. But, still, he was forced to watch her slowly waste away before his sorrowing eyes. He knew that she would die soon and he was beyond distraught. Feeling more and more helpless, Benuck did not know what would happen when he finally lost her - he simply could not conceive of what his life could possibly be like without the woman who he felt had been the perfect mother to him.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US TPB p.715-716
Benuck Fill's father, who he called "Da", had gone to fight the Malazan Empire at the Siege of Pale and had never returned. His wife and son never knew what happened to him, but presumed he had been killed.
==In Toll the Hounds==
On the last night of the Gedderone Fête, Hood physically walked the streets of Darujhistan, harvesting thousands of souls.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.869 As it happened, Benuck Fill's mother had died eight days before, but Benuck's mind had broken and he could not take in the fact of his mother's death. He sat, unmoving, in a chair close beside her bed, mentally reliving in his mind her last days and nights over and over again. He was, "Trapped. Lost. Not eating, not doing anything at all." But Hood's 'touch' came mercifully to him and at last he slumped, himself dead, in his chair. His mother's soul, which had been hovering in anguish over her deeply cherished son these past eight days unable to do anything at all to help him, was finally able to join with his soul in an eternal embrace of "true salvation".
==Notes and references==
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