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“Tregar, see that no harm comes to Lord Stark.”
“As you say, m’lord.”
“Still … we wouldn’t want him to leave here entirely unchastened, so”—through the night and the rain, Ned glimpsed the white of Jaime’s smile—“kill his men.”
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‘Now you know,’ the crow whispered as it sat on his shoulder. ‘Now you know why you must live.’
“Why?” Bran said, not understanding, falling, falling.
‘Because winter is coming.’
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Aemon’s fingers trembled, twigs sheathed in spotted skin. “I remember, Sam. I still remember.”
He was not making sense. “Remember what?”
“Dragons,” Aemon whispered. “The grief and glory of my House, they were.”
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“Your choice is simple. Crown me for peace & victory. Crown my nuncle for more war & defeat. “What will you have, ironmen?”
“VICTORY!” shouted Rodrik the Reader, “Victory & Asha!”
“ASHA!” Lord Blacktyde echoed. “ASHA QUEEN!”
Asha’s crew took up the cry. “ASHA! ASHA! ASHA QUEEN!”
“And to Rhaego son of Drogo, the stallion who will mount the world, to him I also pledge a gift. To him I will give this iron chair his mother’s father sat in. I will give him Seven Kingdoms. I, Drogo, khal, will do this thing.” His voice rose, and he lifted his fist to the sky.
The pack is led by a monstrous she-wolf, a stalking shadow grim & grey & huge. She has been known to bring aurochs down all by herself, no trap nor snare can hold her, she fears neither steel nor fire, slays any wolf that tries to mount her, & devours no other flesh but man.
Penny wrapped her arms around the sow’s head, & murmured reassurances. Looking at the two of them, it was hard to know who was comforting whom. The girl deserves better than a pig, he thought. An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.
“You won’t hear me shout out Joffrey’s name,” he told them. “You won’t hear me yell for Casterly Rock either. This is your city Stannis means to sack, and that’s your gate he’s bringing down. So come with me and kill the son of a bitch!”
-Tyrion Lannister
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Finally Bran looked north. He saw the Wall shining like blue crystal, and his bastard brother Jon sleeping alone in a cold bed, his skin growing pale and hard as the memory of all warmth fled from him.
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“A hall is no place for a wolf. He gets restless, you’ve seen. Growling and snapping. I should never have taken him into battle with me. He’s killed too many men to fear them now.”
-Robb Stark
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