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

by Robin Hobb

Twice they spoke of dreams about a Destroyer,

when I was your age, it would have bothered me a great deal. It doesn’t now because I know who he is. And who I am, and who we are to each other. That doesn’t change, no matter what name he wears or what garb he dons.

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‘So much is lost when there is no trust.

Twice I have dreamed of a Destroyer who comes to Clerres. That would be you, Fitz.

the Unexpected Son? There are many. I have never told you all of them. In some, you wore a buck’s antlers. In others, you howled like a wolf.

I felt safe. It was safe to sleep.’ He rubbed his eyes again. ‘I miss that. I miss that so badly.’

They spoke of a dream of a child who bore the heart of a wolf.

‘Don’t go where I can’t follow you. Don’t leave me behind.

I read a favourite dream, of wolves running.

‘Three flames burn brighter than the sun. Their blaze engulfs an evil done. Their angry mourning purpose gives. They do not know their child still lives.’

‘I have no need of caution among old friends.

A flaming man offers a drink to my father. He drinks it. He shakes himself like a wet dog, and pieces of wood fly in all directions. He turns into two dragons that fly away.

In all the dreams, he changes things so much that no one can predict a future.

‘Sometimes I believe you.’ I looked down at the deck. ‘Mostly I don’t.’ Hope was too painful.

I had heard of being ‘heartbroken’ or ‘heavy-hearted’ but I had never known it was an actual sensation one felt when the whole world abandons you.

We are inundated with nightmares about the wrath of the Unexpected Son. Terrifying visions of the vengeance of the Twice-lived Prophet make the young ones wake crying out in fear.

“Blind he sees the way, and the wolf comes at his heels!”

I dreamed of a wolf that unmasked a puppeteer. I dreamed of a scroll that unwrote itself. I dreamed of a man who shook planks off himself and became two dragons.

‘Bee. Nothing happens to you. You happen to everything.’

Over the last year, the occurrence of dreams about the Destroyer have greatly increased. That tells us that something happened, something we did not expect. Some event has made it more likely that a Destroyer exists and will come to us.’

A woman with golden hair rode a horse through the forest. ‘Three hunt as one at the trail’s edge. The queen, the foreteller and the stableboy smile to see it so.’

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I dreamed a silver man carving his heart.

A blue buck leapt into a silver lake and a black wolf leapt out of it.

said, ‘I was dreaming a song for Fitz’s little girl. If I ever got to meet her.’