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

by Robin Hobb

I sighed out a final breath and found Nighteyes waiting for me. Are you ready, my brother? Yes. I sank into the nothing.

I can’t. I am not ok.

How could their lives be so ordinary when my father was dead? How could the whole world not be as broken as I was?

And he had been proud of me.

Twist this knife of heartbreak.

But very little of what happens to us in life is what we deserve.”

something like a tick had bitten the back of my neck. I could find no little body, but it itched abominably.

No no no. It was th dart. Did it bave the parasites in it? Noo. He cant make it all this way and die of the bugs.

like a fallen buck infested with maggots,

I have only two grandchildren, and your family has saved them both.

What? Malta wintrow seldon boy o. 4?? Phron is a great grandchild, right? We just forgetting kyle and altheas sister?

“Kettricken, you have been here before. We both know how this ends. You see my wolf at my back. I will finish him, and now that Nighteyes is with me again it will go more swiftly.”

“Da. I dreamed of a time when I would sit beside you and you would tell me the tale of your days. I want that now, for I do not think we will have years for you to pass that on to me.” “I

You’ll be gone,” Nettle said bitterly. “And not for the first time,” I replied. “Oh, that is so true,” she said, and the impact of her words was like an arrow to my chest.

Ouch

The little fox looked up at me with sparkling eyes. I looked at Kettricken. “Would you give this to the boy, please? As once you gave it to me?”

“There’s something stalking us. Off to the side of the road, moving through the forest.” Kettricken smiled.