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“The dragon prince sang a song so sad it made the wolf maid sniffle.”
-Meera Reed
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Hot Pie shifted his seat. “I know the song about the bear,” he said. “Some of it, anyhow.”
Tom ran his fingers down his strings. “Then let’s hear it, pie boy.” He threw back his head and sang, “A bear there was, a bear, a bear! All black and brown, and covered with hair …”
“His wings beat once, twice …
… & folded. The dragon gave one last hiss & stretched out flat upon his belly. Black blood was flowing from the wound where the spear had pierced him, smoking where it dripped onto the scorched sands. He is fire made flesh, she thought, & so am I.
“Bolton has blundered,” the king declared … “We hold the ground, & that I mean to turn to our advantage.”
“The ground?" said Theon. “What ground? You have no high ground here, no walls to hide beyond, no natural defenses.”
“Yet.”
“Yet,” both ravens screamed.
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Another small victory. Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.
-Daenerys Targaryen
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Victarion drank with the rest. ‘There is no wine so sweet as wine taken from a foe.’ Someone had told him that once. His father, or his brother Balon. ‘One day I shall drink your wine, Crow’s Eye, and take from you all that you hold dear.’ But was there anything Euron held dear?
The king moved, so his shadow fell upon King’s Landing. “If Joffrey should die … what is the life of one bastard boy against a kingdom?”
“Everything,” said Davos, softly.
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Unbidden, his thoughts went to Brienne of Tarth.
-Jaime Lannister
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She missed Septa Mordane, & even more Jeyne Poole, her truest friend. Sansa did not know what happened to Jeyne, who disappeared, never to be mentioned again. She tried not to think of them too often, yet sometimes the memories came unbidden, & it was hard to hold back the tears.
Ghost was curled up asleep beside the door, but he lifted his head at the sound of Jon’s boots. The direwolf’s red eyes were darker than garnets and wiser than men. Jon knelt, scratched his ear, and showed him the pommel of the sword. “Look. It’s you.”
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