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Hand in hand they walked out onto the bare stone saddle, their cloaks snapping & flapping behind them. All around was empty air & sky, the ground falling sharply to either side. the wind was howling fiercely. It sounds like a wolf, thought Sansa. A ghost wolf, big as mountains.
Robb bid farewell to his young queen thrice. Once in the godswood,in the sight of gods & men. The 2nd beneath the portcullis with a long embrace & a longer kiss. And finally an hour beyond the Tumblestone, when she came galloping up to plead with her young king to take her along.
“Aenys broke his neck,I heard, but Ser Hosteen only lost a horse, more’s the pity. He will be angry now.”
“Angry foes do not concern me. Anger makes men stupid, & Hosteen Frey was stupid to begin with, if half of what I have heard of him is true. Let him come.”
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“In the name of King Robert & the good lords you serve, I call upon you to seize him & help me return him to Winterfell to await the king’s justice.”
She did not know what was more satisfying: the sound of a dozen swords drawn as one or the look on Tyrion Lannister’s face.
Through their thick, diamond-shaped panes of yellow glass Jaime glimpsed the gnarled limbs of the tree from which the castle took its name. It was a weirwood ancient & colossal, ten times the size of the one in the Stone Garden at Casterly Rock.
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“The broken man lives from day to day, from meal to meal, more beast than man. Lady Brienne is not wrong. In times like these, the traveler must beware of broken men, and fear them … but he should pity them as well.”
-Septon Meribald
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‘He was so young then, and I was younger. Boys, the both of us.’ At the welcoming feast, the prince had taken up his silver-stringed harp and played for them. A song of love and doom, Jon Connington recalled, and every woman in the hall was weeping when he put down the harp.
“There is more of Rhaegar in you, I think, but even Rhaegar could be slain. Robert proved that on the Trident, with no more than a warhammer. Even dragons can die.”
“Dragons die … But so do dragonslayers.”
-Jorah & Daenerys
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Hundreds of smallfolk had been admitted to the castle, & allowed to erect crude shelters against the walls. Their children were everywhere underfoot, & the yard teemed with their cows, sheep, & chickens. “Who are all these folk?”
“My people,” Edmure answered. “They were afraid.”
A man in dark armor and a pale pink cloak spotted with blood stepped up to Robb. “Jaime Lannister sends his regards.” He thrust his longsword through her son’s heart, and twisted.
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