Hello!
I have a small story of what happened in my fort tonight and a connected question.
One of the children in my fort just went mad. Yes, he was running around completely stark naked, but, as he was only one year old, it seamed not to be a very big issue to me (besides, he had his beard to cover himself with).
Nevertheless, mad from the terrible grief he went, but to compensate his too early developed sense of shame, he at least had very good manners. So good in fact, that he choose to go berserk right in the middle of my barracks - literally encircled by my whole military.
I must admit, it was quite disturbing to read the reports of the following events, namely, my army standing around the unlucky bugger (who's spine was axed in the very first frame thus making him a nice defenceless and helpless target, lying, as he where, on the ground) in a neat circle, methodicaly smashing his ribs and head with the butts of their crossbows, kicking and even biting - so, after the unexpected training exercise was over, I went to check the morale of my troops, expecting some trauma.
The true depth of the tragedy was only then revealed, as the one solder who had became 'very unhappy' after the frenzy, turned out to be the mother of the butchered child! And as it weren't enough, the poor soul obviously is under even more self tormenting than could be expected after slaughtering her own child (which should be immeasurably much already, I guess), because, despite 'having lost a child to a tragedy' even recent thought in her memories is about 'taking joy in slaughter' and that is just wrong if the respective slaughter is of one's own child..
Anyway, my question: how I can help my dwarven mother who had the strength to do what was necessary to get over this tragedy without following her child's fate? I relived my whole military from their duty to get rid of the unhappy thoughts because of the service and to store their weapons safely behind the stone doors of my arsenal in case it wasn't enough. I also plan to give the mother her personal room of good quality, but what else can quickly bee done to give here some happy thoughts?