The Fool (spoilers for all RotE books, including LST)

[NeverBeenWise]

Going back to the Fool and apricots, I am of the opinion that he likes them so much because they are a link to his childhood. Clerres is much farther south than the Six Duchies or even Bingtown/the Rain Wilds. The climate would be a good deal warmer, good for producing fairly large, sweet fruits. Didn't the Fool once reveal to Fitz that the members of his birth family were farmers? They could have cultivated apricots, for all we know! The fruits would bring back memories of the one time his life was not tainted by politics and intrigue, when he was pretty much free to just be a normal kid. He didn't have that for long, because when he was eight he dreamed about the "Fitz fixes feist's fits, fat suffices" that he should tell his Catalyst, and I'm assuming that by that time he was living at the school.

EDIT: Also, why the heck is Beloved so interested in the Attract Birds charm? Any and all theories welcome, as I'm really kind of stumped, except for my wild out of the blue hypothesis that "well, maybe there's a dragon/Elderling type deal between the Fool's people and some sort of avian creatures!" Which is probably not it.