Assassin's Fate (The Fitz and the Fool #3)

by Robin Hobb

Sitting on the floor, I pulled my knees up tight to my chest and bowed my head over them. Chade’s boy wept.

I could have argued that with him. But it seemed pointless and I was tired of pain.

Who had that young man been who had thought himself so old and worldly-wise? He was a stranger to me now.