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Vhagar’s carcass plunged to the lake floor. When she was found some years later, after the end of the Dance of the Dragons, Prince Aemond’s armored bones remained chained to her saddle, with Dark Sister thrust hilt-deep through his eye socket.
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“Wait here,” Dany told Ser Jorah. “Tell them all to stay. Tell them I command it.”
The knight smiled. Ser Jorah was not a handsome man, yet his smiles gave Dany comfort. “You are learning to talk like a queen, Daenerys.”
“Not a queen,” said Dany. “A khaleesi.”
“Who?” Ser Loras craned his head around to see. “Ten black pellets on a scarlet field. I do not know those arms.”
“They belonged to Criston Cole, who served the first Viserys and the second Aegon.” Jaime closed the White Book. “They called him Kingmaker.”
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Ned knelt in the snow to kiss the queen’s ring, while Robert embraced Catelyn like a long-lost sister. Then the children had been brought forward, introduced, and approved of by both sides.
-Eddard I, AGOT
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Robert’s queen, Cersei Lannister, entered on foot with her younger children. The wheelhouse in which they had ridden, a huge double-decked carriage of oiled oak and gilded metal pulled by forty heavy draft horses, was too wide to pass through the castle gate.
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“Mercy is never a mistake.”
-Eddard VI, AGOT
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“What do you think a knight is for, girl? You think it’s all taking favors from ladies and looking fine in gold plate? Knights are for killing.”
-Sandor Clegane, Sansa IV, ACOK
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“Though there are those who say it does not matter how a man begins, but only how he ends. I suppose it is the same for women.”
-Thoros of Myr, AFFC
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And Robb. Robb who had been more a brother to Theon than any son born of Balon Greyjoy’s loins. Murdered at the Red Wedding, butchered by the Freys. I should have been with him. Where was I? I should have died with him.
-Theon I, ADWD
#ASongOfIceAndFire 🎨Ninfra
Only thumb & forefinger remained on Qhorin’s right hand; the other fingers had been sheared off catching a wildling’s axe that would have split his skull. He had thrust his maimed fist into the face of the axeman so the blood spurted into his eyes, & slew him while he was blind.