Is Fitz Happy?

Together, FitzChivalry, The Fool, Kettricken, Kettle, Starling, and of course, Nighteyes all make it to the last stop on their map. Fighting despondency, they discover a body and Fitz detects life fu…

The company travels down from the colder weather, encounter impossible architecture, and relax at hot springs. Excepting the Fool and Nighteyes, they all take the time to bathe. Fitz is by himself, w…

FitzChivalry and company leave the Stone Dragon garden and head back to the Skill Road to try and find Verity. After camping for the night near the previous Skill Pillar, Regal's coterie stalks and a…

Content Warning: Until minute 28:30, we discuss Starling's history, trauma, and coping mechanisms dealing with sexual assault. Please be kind to yourselves and listen accordingly. 
Nighteyes, Fitz, a…

The start of this chapter has The Fool provoking Starling with little jabs in between his conversations with FitzChivalry. Fitz is trying to explain why plumbing matters and the Fool is challenging h…

Part two of this chapter has us discussing relationships between party members, talking about frustrations with Fitz, Kettricken, and Starling, and has the Fool become very animated after a Skill sce…

The group continues travel along the road, with Fitz hounded and threatened by the Coterie and Regal. Kettle strives to keep his mind focused while Fitz and the Fool talk more about the Fool's past. …

Recovering from his trip into Kelsingra, Fitz settles down to sleep and notices the Fool is warm and sickly. Despite his protests, Fitz is convinced to move on in the morning by Kettricken. Earlier t…

FitzChivalry finds himself alone, stranded in a strange city with Skill ghosts. Fogged, mentally and physically, he makes his way into the city in a daze, trying to make sense of the abandoned ruins.…

In this chapter, we learn of Starling's theory on the Fool and Fitz is saved from her conversation by having to move back to the road. Kettle tries to keep him focused, but he is slowly drowning in t…

Fitz's mind is occupied by his Skill wanderings, the Road, and the ever present desire for the Skill River. Kettle does what she can to distract him, trying to get the others to help. Nighteyes has a…

Reaching and traveling along the Skill Road distracts FitzChivalry and Kettle. While Kettle is trained enough to prevent the distractions, Fitz is Skill daydreaming of everything and everyone. We see…

Mission planning for operation Save Verity is underway, but FitzChivalry feels very left out. Kettricken assumed from the beginning that Fitz would refuse, and with their philosophical differences sh…

Picking up where we left off, FitzChivalry comes back after an intense Skill dream where he talks to Verity. A now-forgotten epiphany from that dream leaves Fitz feeling empty before he meets up with…

In a depressive slump, FitzChivalry is drinking. Ranting against injustices, Chade, Nighteyes, Kettle, and the Fool all tolerate him. Kettricken has summoned him before her to report and Fitz is once…

FitzChivalry, still wounded, faces his past life while severely feverish. He laments the fact that once again decisions are taken out of his hands. Chade, Kettricken, Kettle, Starling, and the Fool a…

Despite almost dying, Fitz has made it to safety against all odds. Nighteyes did all he could and now it's in the hands of an old friend. We discuss unexpected reunions, hope rekindled, the Fool's jo…