Grimm's The Golden Bird

He can see when love will fail. The exact moment. The precise betrayal.

It's a gift, they say. The youngest prince knows better.

When a golden bird steals his father's prized apples and his brothers fail to catch it, the prince volunteers - not from courage, but from certainty. He's already seen how this ends. A Fox, bound by old magic and older debts, agrees to guide him. But the Fox has one rule: follow instructions exactly.

The prince doesn't. He chooses the golden saddle. The golden cage. ...