#anyway i put it on my fitzloved playlist immediately

[halcyonhowl]

Little things from the end of Fool’s Fate:

Fitz opens the package and scroll that Beloved left for him in private. He doesn’t even touch them when Chade brings them out.

The scroll was the poem (Last Dance of Chances) and a farewell. Is this ‘farewell’ a full letter or just the word? He doesn’t elaborate.

He assumes that Beloved did not have a change of heart. I think this is when he officially stuffs his grief down deep.

When he goes to put them away, he refers to them as ‘treasures.’ He cherishes them!

He puts the wooden carving of Nighteyes Beloved made, and the memory stone on his workroom hearth.

The memory stone is turned so that Nighteyes is faced out. He is hiding the Fool even from himself.

In the epilogue, Fitz feels their story is unfinished. He will never know a bond like he had with Beloved again and he sees this as a good thing. How lucky he was have someone like that in his life, even for a limited time.

He is living the life that Beloved foresaw as their last prophecy. It was always so so important to Beloved that their prophecies be taken seriously, even the ones that hurt the most. But knowing that Fitz would have a happy life kept Beloved going, even through the worst of the torture.

I’m crying right now goodbye