1. Keep breathing.Copy !req
2. And push.Copy !req
3. And again.Copy !req
4. I can't.Copy !req
5. Push!Copy !req
6. The head!Copy !req
7. A boy, Princess.Copy !req
8. Praise the Mother!Copy !req
9. Healthy?Copy !req
10. Kicking like a goat, Princess.Copy !req
11. Princess...Copy !req
12. the Queen has requested that
the child be brought to her...Copy !req
13. immediately.Copy !req
14. Why?Copy !req
15. I'll take him myself.Copy !req
16. You should remain abed, Princess—Copy !req
17. Yes, I should! Help me dress.Copy !req
18. Princess...Copy !req
19. your dress?Copy !req
20. Princess?Copy !req
21. - It's coming.
- The afterbirth!Copy !req
22. A boy. I've just heard.Copy !req
23. - Yes.
- Well done.Copy !req
24. - Where are you going?
- She wants to see him.Copy !req
25. Now?Copy !req
26. I'm coming with you.Copy !req
27. - I should hope so.
- Let me take him.Copy !req
28. No, she'll get no such
satisfaction from me.Copy !req
29. Just take my arm, at the least.Copy !req
30. Was it terribly painful?Copy !req
31. Oh gods.Copy !req
32. I took a lance through the shoulder once.Copy !req
33. My deepest sympathies.Copy !req
34. The Princess... The Princess...Copy !req
35. I am glad I am not a woman.Copy !req
36. - My Princess...
- My Lord...Copy !req
37. What is it? What is it?Copy !req
38. Fuck.Copy !req
39. Walk. Walk!Copy !req
40. What could she possibly want?Copy !req
41. I thought we were past this.Copy !req
42. Princess, Ser Laenor, it is a privilegeCopy !req
43. to be amongst the first
to congratulate you.Copy !req
44. Thank you, Lord Caswell.Copy !req
45. If I may be of any service.Copy !req
46. The day may yet come, my Lord.Copy !req
47. We are turning back, all right?Copy !req
48. She can come to us, all right?Copy !req
49. No. Not unless you wish to carry me down
those fucking stairs.Copy !req
50. This is absurd.Copy !req
51. Princess.Copy !req
52. Rhaenyra!
You should be resting after your labors.Copy !req
53. I have no doubt that
you would prefer that, Your Grace.Copy !req
54. You must sit.Copy !req
55. Talya, fetch a cushion for the Princess.Copy !req
56. - There's no need.
- Nonsense.Copy !req
57. We'll finish this later.Copy !req
58. Your Grace.Copy !req
59. What happy news this morning.Copy !req
60. Indeed, Your Grace.Copy !req
61. Where is he?Copy !req
62. Where is my grandson? There.Copy !req
63. There he is.Copy !req
64. A fine Prince.Copy !req
65. Sturdy.Copy !req
66. You will make a fearsome knight.Copy !req
67. Yes, you will.Copy !req
68. Does the babe have a name yet?Copy !req
69. - We haven't spoken—
- Joffrey.Copy !req
70. He'll be called Joffrey.Copy !req
71. That's an unusual name for a Velaryon.Copy !req
72. I do believe he has his father's nose.Copy !req
73. Don't you?Copy !req
74. If you don't mind, Your Grace,Copy !req
75. your daughter has exerted herself
heroically and should rest.Copy !req
76. Of course.Copy !req
77. There.Copy !req
78. Well done, my girl.Copy !req
79. I do hope the labor was easy.Copy !req
80. I think I called the midwife a cunt.Copy !req
81. Do keep trying, Ser Laenor.Copy !req
82. Soon or late, you may get one
who looks like you.Copy !req
83. You don't think to consult me
before you name my child?Copy !req
84. He's our child, is he not?Copy !req
85. Only one of us is bleeding.Copy !req
86. I deserve some say in the affairs
of my own family.Copy !req
87. You haven't seemed so interested
in our affairs of late.Copy !req
88. And he sees a big, scary dragon!Copy !req
89. Mother...Copy !req
90. look.Copy !req
91. We chose an egg for the baby.Copy !req
92. That looks like the perfect one.Copy !req
93. - I let Luke choose.
- Thank you, Jace.Copy !req
94. Not every day an egg leaves the Dragonpit, Princess.Copy !req
95. I thought it best to escort the lads.Copy !req
96. Laenor and I thank you, Commander.Copy !req
97. Another boy, I heard.Copy !req
98. What a fine knight you
are going to make, eh?Copy !req
99. Might I?Copy !req
100. Ser Harwin wishes to be
introduced to Joffrey.Copy !req
101. Of course.Copy !req
102. Joffrey, is it?Copy !req
103. Father, please may I hold Joffrey?Copy !req
104. No, no. No.Copy !req
105. Back to the Dragonpit for you two.Copy !req
106. - Come on!
- Before they send out a search party.Copy !req
107. You're asleep in front of
the Commander of the City Watch.Copy !req
108. Terrible lack of respect.Copy !req
109. A certain insolence
runs in the family, I'm afraid.Copy !req
110. Call Vermax to heel, Prince Jacaerys.Copy !req
111. Vermax!Copy !req
112. Vermax!Copy !req
113. Zaldrizo aoho syt aeksio sagon ao bevilza,Copy !req
114. darilaros nuhys—Copy !req
115. You must hold mastery over your dragon,
my young Princes.Copy !req
116. hae Darilarot Aegot Vvsperzomy.Copy !req
117. As Prince Aegon has with Sunfyre.Copy !req
118. Zijosy aot tetiri ozlettosy,Copy !req
119. toli rybagon zirylo vindilza.Copy !req
120. Once they're fully bound to you,
they will refuseCopy !req
121. to take instruction from any other.Copy !req
122. Can I say it?Copy !req
123. Dracarys, Vermax!Copy !req
124. Aemond, we have a surprise for you.Copy !req
125. - What is it?
- Something very special.Copy !req
126. You're the only one
of us without a dragon.Copy !req
127. Indeed.Copy !req
128. And we felt badly about it,Copy !req
129. so we found one for you.Copy !req
130. A dragon? How?Copy !req
131. The gods provide.Copy !req
132. - Behold—
- The Pink Dread!Copy !req
133. Be sure to mount her carefully.Copy !req
134. First flight's always rough.Copy !req
135. This one has 60 rings...Copy !req
136. and two pairs of legs on each.Copy !req
137. That's 240.Copy !req
138. Yes, it is.Copy !req
139. It has eyes...Copy !req
140. though...Copy !req
141. I don't believe it can see.Copy !req
142. And why is that so, do you think?Copy !req
143. It is beyond our understanding.Copy !req
144. I suppose you're right.
Some things just are.Copy !req
145. Your Grace.Copy !req
146. Aemond.Copy !req
147. - What have you done?
- He did it again.Copy !req
148. After how many times
you've been warned,Copy !req
149. must I have you confined
to your chambers?Copy !req
150. - They made me do it!
- As if you needed encouragement.Copy !req
151. Your obsession with those beasts
goes beyond understanding.Copy !req
152. They gave me a pig!Copy !req
153. A what?Copy !req
154. They said they found a dragon for me.Copy !req
155. The last ring has no legs at all.Copy !req
156. But it was a pig.Copy !req
157. You will have a dragon one day.Copy !req
158. - He'll have to close an eye.
- I know it.Copy !req
159. They all laughed.Copy !req
160. They made wings for it,
apparently, and a tail.Copy !req
161. The lad shouldn't have been so credulous.Copy !req
162. He's a child.Copy !req
163. He thought they'd happened upon
some wild unnamed dragonCopy !req
164. and lured it to the Dragonpit?Copy !req
165. Your grandsons are a menace.Copy !req
166. They're more children than he is.Copy !req
167. They're savages.
And it's not surprising.Copy !req
168. Are you sure it wasn't
our Aegon who put them up to it?Copy !req
169. It's a wonder to me
their eggs ever hatched.Copy !req
170. - And why is that?
- You know why.Copy !req
171. - I'm afraid I don't.
- Don't!Copy !req
172. Viserys.Copy !req
173. We shall continue this afternoon, Eddard.Copy !req
174. I have raised this matter beforeCopy !req
175. and you forbade me to speak of it,
so I held my tongue.Copy !req
176. To have one child like that is a mistake,Copy !req
177. to have three is an insult,Copy !req
178. to the throne, to you,
to House VelaryonCopy !req
179. and the match you battled
so hard to make for her.Copy !req
180. Not to mention decency itself.Copy !req
181. I had a black mare once.Copy !req
182. Black like a raven.Copy !req
183. One day, she escaped her pastureCopy !req
184. and the neighboring stallion
sired a foal on her.Copy !req
185. The stallion was as silver as the moon
on a winter's nightCopy !req
186. and the foal, when it was born,Copy !req
187. chestnut.Copy !req
188. Just the most unremarkable
brown horse you ever saw.Copy !req
189. Nature is a thing of mysterious works.Copy !req
190. How do you know?Copy !req
191. The silver stallion.Copy !req
192. How do you know it was him?Copy !req
193. Did you witness the act itself?Copy !req
194. The consequencesCopy !req
195. of an allegation like the one you toy atCopy !req
196. would be dire.Copy !req
197. Do not speak of this again.Copy !req
198. Have I lost my sanity, Ser Criston?Copy !req
199. Do my senses lead me astray?Copy !req
200. Or is everyone else asleep,
dreaming the same woolly dream?Copy !req
201. Sometimes seems so, Your Grace.Copy !req
202. She flaunts the privilege
of her inheritance without shame.Copy !req
203. She expects everyone in the Red Keep
to deny the truthCopy !req
204. our eyes can all plainly see.Copy !req
205. - And the King, her father—
- He knows.Copy !req
206. Of course, he knows.Copy !req
207. Or did once, but has convinced
himself otherwise.Copy !req
208. He'll do naught but make excuses for her.Copy !req
209. The Princess Rhaenyra
is brazen and relentless.Copy !req
210. A spider who stings
and sucks her prey dry.Copy !req
211. A spoiled cunt.Copy !req
212. That was beneath me, Your Grace.
I apologize.Copy !req
213. I have to believe,Copy !req
214. that in the end,
honor and decency will prevail.Copy !req
215. We need to hew to that and to each other.Copy !req
216. Whose idea was it?Copy !req
217. The pig.Copy !req
218. - Was it your plot?
- No...Copy !req
219. it was Jace andCopy !req
220. it was the two of them.Copy !req
221. I couldn't be sure.Copy !req
222. Aemond is your brother.Copy !req
223. - Well, he's a twat.
- We are family.Copy !req
224. You may cuff him about
as you wish at home,Copy !req
225. but in the world,
we must defend our own.Copy !req
226. It was funny.Copy !req
227. Do you think Rhaenyra's sons
will be your playthings forever?Copy !req
228. As things stand...Copy !req
229. Rhaenyra will ascend the throne
and Jacaerys Targaryen will be her heir.Copy !req
230. - So?
- You are nearly a man-grown.Copy !req
231. How is it that you can be so shortsighted?Copy !req
232. If Rhaenyra comes into power...Copy !req
233. your very life could be forfeit.Copy !req
234. Aemond's as well.Copy !req
235. She could move to cut off any challenge
to her succession.Copy !req
236. - Then I won't challenge—
- You are the challenge!Copy !req
237. You are the challenge, Aegon!Copy !req
238. Simply by living and breathing!Copy !req
239. You are the King's firstborn sonCopy !req
240. and what they know,
what everyone in the realm knowsCopy !req
241. in their blood and in their bones...Copy !req
242. is that one day, you will be our King.Copy !req
243. Get dressed.Copy !req
244. Dracarys!Copy !req
245. The lamb hearts are excellent.Copy !req
246. We are fortunate in our cook,
Your Excellence.Copy !req
247. There's a plum-cake yet to be served,Copy !req
248. which will have us
fighting over the crumbs.Copy !req
249. Then before we come to blows...Copy !req
250. a toast to Aegon the Conqueror,
your exalted forebear,Copy !req
251. who joined our cause against Volantis
in the Century of Blood.Copy !req
252. On the great dragon Balerion,
he flew to our aid in LysCopy !req
253. and burned a fleet of enemy ships,
thus turning the tide.Copy !req
254. - Aegon the Conqueror.
- To Aegon.Copy !req
255. This brings me to some business.Copy !req
256. A proposal I wish to makeCopy !req
257. in the spirit of honoring
our storied alliance.Copy !req
258. If your aim is to marry
one of our daughters, Your Excellence,Copy !req
259. you might have said so
and spared us the history lesson.Copy !req
260. What?Copy !req
261. I would not count myself
so deserving, my Lady Laena.Copy !req
262. I wish to offer you a permanent residence
here in Pentos.Copy !req
263. This manse I would gift to you, outright,Copy !req
264. along with its farms and lands,Copy !req
265. the vineyard and the wood.Copy !req
266. The tenants would pay
their tributes annuallyCopy !req
267. to their new Targaryen lord.Copy !req
268. You would have your freedom
of the city and the harbor,Copy !req
269. as befits your royal station.Copy !req
270. Continue.Copy !req
271. Lys and its allies rise again.Copy !req
272. The Triarchy has made common cause
with Qoren Martell of Dorne.Copy !req
273. At any moment,
they may turn their sights north.Copy !req
274. Your family has dragons.Copy !req
275. Three now, mayhaps four in the future.Copy !req
276. My aim is to protect Pentos
from the lustful eye of the Triarchy.Copy !req
277. Aid Pentos in this, as Aegon once did...Copy !req
278. and my gratitude will fill your cup
and overflow it.Copy !req
279. Your Excellence, we are travelers.Copy !req
280. We've already extended our visit here.Copy !req
281. It's a most generous offer.Copy !req
282. And one we will certainly entertain.Copy !req
283. You are considering
Prince Reggio's offer.Copy !req
284. We have a good life here.Copy !req
285. We're free to do as we please,
welcomed and feted.Copy !req
286. - And eternally guests.
- Precisely.Copy !req
287. We are without responsibility.
The political scheming,Copy !req
288. the endless shifting
of loyalties and successionCopy !req
289. is none of ours.Copy !req
290. - They are using us.
- It's refreshing, isn't it?Copy !req
291. A simple transaction.Copy !req
292. We have dragons, they have gold.Copy !req
293. We are more than this, Daemon.Copy !req
294. We are not minstrels or mummersCopy !req
295. who play at the pleasure
of an alien prince.Copy !req
296. We are the blood of Old Valyria.Copy !req
297. We don't belong here.Copy !req
298. Valyria is gone. We don't belong anywhere.Copy !req
299. I want my child to be born
where I was born, on Driftmark,Copy !req
300. in my lord father's castle.Copy !req
301. I want my daughters to be
raised in their homelandCopy !req
302. with their family
according to their birthright.Copy !req
303. And at my end, I want to die
a dragonrider's death.Copy !req
304. Not that of some fat country lord.Copy !req
305. Soften your knees.Copy !req
306. Feet light.Copy !req
307. Keep your feet light
and your hands heavy.Copy !req
308. This is the stuff, Lyonel.Copy !req
309. Lads that learn together,
train together...Copy !req
310. knock each other down, pick each other up.Copy !req
311. They will certainly form a lifelong bond,
wouldn't you agree?Copy !req
312. That is the hope, Your Grace.Copy !req
313. Don't stand too upright, my Prince.
You'll get knocked down.Copy !req
314. Aegon.Copy !req
315. I've won my first bout, Ser Criston.Copy !req
316. My opponent sues for mercy.Copy !req
317. You'll have a new opponent then,
My Lord of the Straw.Copy !req
318. Let's see if you can touch me.Copy !req
319. You and your brother.Copy !req
320. You're gonna have to do better than that.Copy !req
321. Weapons up, boys.Copy !req
322. Give your enemies no quarter.Copy !req
323. It seems the younger boys
could do better with a bitCopy !req
324. of your attention, Ser Criston.Copy !req
325. You question my method
of instruction, ser?Copy !req
326. I merely suggest that method
be applied to all your pupils.Copy !req
327. Very well.Copy !req
328. Jacaerys, come here.Copy !req
329. You spar with Aegon.Copy !req
330. Eldest son against eldest son.Copy !req
331. - It's hardly a fair match.
- I know you've never seenCopy !req
332. true battle, ser,
but when steel is drawn,Copy !req
333. a fair match isn't something
anyone should expect.Copy !req
334. Blades up.Copy !req
335. Engage.Copy !req
336. - Foul play.
- I'll deal with him.Copy !req
337. Plant your feet.
You have a height advantage.Copy !req
338. Use it. Advance on him...Copy !req
339. You!Copy !req
340. Close with him.Copy !req
341. Press him backward!
Close with him!Copy !req
342. Stay on the attack! Use your feet!Copy !req
343. Don't let him get up.Copy !req
344. Stay on the attack!Copy !req
345. Enough!Copy !req
346. - You dare put hands on me?
- Aegon!Copy !req
347. You forget yourself, Strong.
That is the Prince.Copy !req
348. This is what you teach, Cole?Copy !req
349. Cruelty...Copy !req
350. to the weaker opponent?Copy !req
351. Your interest in the princeling's training
is quite unusual, Commander.Copy !req
352. Most men would only
have that kind of devotionCopy !req
353. toward a cousin...Copy !req
354. or a brother...Copy !req
355. or a son.Copy !req
356. Get back!Copy !req
357. Say it again!Copy !req
358. Say it again!Copy !req
359. Thought as much.Copy !req
360. Let him be bathed with a cloth,Copy !req
361. and see to it the cookCopy !req
362. gives you a good, clear wine to drink.Copy !req
363. Princess...Copy !req
364. there's been an incident in the yard.Copy !req
365. It fills me with unrelenting shame.Copy !req
366. So that's what this is about then?Copy !req
367. - Your shame.
- Our shame, Harwin!Copy !req
368. Shame on the whole of House Strong.Copy !req
369. Because I laid my hands
on that insufferable Cole,Copy !req
370. - the son of a steward?
- He is a Knight of the Kingsguard now,Copy !req
371. - a defender of the crown.
- He assailed Prince Jacaerys,Copy !req
372. the future heir to the throne.Copy !req
373. You have laid us open to accusationsCopy !req
374. of an uglier treachery.Copy !req
375. And what treachery is that?Copy !req
376. Don't play the fool with me, boy.Copy !req
377. Your intimacy with the Princess RhaenyraCopy !req
378. is an offense that would
mean exile and death...Copy !req
379. for you, for her, for the children!Copy !req
380. It is rumor only...Copy !req
381. spun by the Princess's rivals.Copy !req
382. People have eyes, boy.Copy !req
383. Yet His Grace the King, it seems,
will not accept what his eyes see.Copy !req
384. This flimsy shield alone
stands between you and the headsman.Copy !req
385. The willful blindness of a father
towards his child.Copy !req
386. I wish my father affected
a similar blindness.Copy !req
387. Have I not these many years?Copy !req
388. And yet today, you publicly assaultedCopy !req
389. a Knight of the Kingsguard
in the, in the defense of your—Copy !req
390. You have your honor and I have mine.Copy !req
391. To ease the pain, Princess.Copy !req
392. - Thank you.
- You'll feel better in a day or two,Copy !req
393. when the milk dries up.Copy !req
394. My dear wife.Copy !req
395. Princess.Copy !req
396. I fell down.Copy !req
397. - Where have you been?
- Out with Qarl. Didn't I mention it?Copy !req
398. Are you in very much pain?Copy !req
399. The milk...Copy !req
400. - swells the breasts—
- Would you mind, Ser Qarl?Copy !req
401. I would like to speak with my husband.Copy !req
402. Of course, Princess.Copy !req
403. War is afoot again
in the Stepstones, Rhaenyra.Copy !req
404. The Triarchy takes new life
from its alliance with Dorne.Copy !req
405. They're waylaying ships and cargo.Copy !req
406. Qarl's been fighting there.
He showed me a—Copy !req
407. He showed me a sack of sapphires
big as walnutsCopy !req
408. he took from the pirate he slew.Copy !req
409. after all this time,
this is just what I need,Copy !req
410. a little adventure.Copy !req
411. A good, honest battle
to enliven my blood again.Copy !req
412. He says there is a Tyroshi general there,Copy !req
413. a giant, they say,Copy !req
414. who dyes his beard purple
and wears women's frocks.Copy !req
415. A few months, maybe...Copy !req
416. To be back at sea.Copy !req
417. Are you mad?Copy !req
418. Do you know what's happened...Copy !req
419. while you've been guzzling all the ale
in Flea Bottom?Copy !req
420. Gods know what besides?Copy !req
421. Dark rumors are hunting us, Laenor.Copy !req
422. They nip at our heels.Copy !req
423. Questions about our sons' parentage.Copy !req
424. Vile, disgusting insinuations.Copy !req
425. Insinuations, are they?Copy !req
426. They are our sons!Copy !req
427. Yours and mine.Copy !req
428. And their true father
will not abandon them nowCopy !req
429. to go carousing through the Narrow Sea,
waggling his swordCopy !req
430. - and winking at his sailors.
- I am a knight...Copy !req
431. and a warrior.Copy !req
432. And I have played
my part here, faithfully...Copy !req
433. for 10 years.Copy !req
434. - I am owed some—
- You are owed nothing!Copy !req
435. For 10 years, you have indulged
yourself at court,Copy !req
436. bought the finest horses,Copy !req
437. drunk the rarest of wines,Copy !req
438. fucked the lustiest boys.Copy !req
439. This was our agreement.
I have not begrudged you.Copy !req
440. But...Copy !req
441. you do not desert your post
when the storm lashes.Copy !req
442. The wise sailor flees
the storm as it gathers.Copy !req
443. Very well then.
I command you.Copy !req
444. As your Princess
and the heir to the throne,Copy !req
445. you are commanded to remainCopy !req
446. in King's Landing and at my side.Copy !req
447. It's been eight years, sweetling.Copy !req
448. - Half of them never do, you know?
- What?Copy !req
449. Hatch.Copy !req
450. Will they let me stay?Copy !req
451. Will who let you stay?Copy !req
452. The Prince of Pentos.Copy !req
453. I don't understand.Copy !req
454. He wants you and father...Copy !req
455. and Baela...Copy !req
456. 'cause you have dragons.Copy !req
457. There is more than one way
to bind yourself to a dragon.Copy !req
458. I was without one until I was 15 years oldCopy !req
459. and now I ride Vhagar,
the largest in the world.Copy !req
460. You have a harder road.Copy !req
461. Baela's dragon was born to her.Copy !req
462. But if you wish to be a rider,Copy !req
463. you must claim that right.Copy !req
464. Your father would tell you the same.Copy !req
465. Father ignores me.Copy !req
466. He's doing his best.Copy !req
467. Laenor has written.Copy !req
468. Rhaenyra has delivered another son.Copy !req
469. Does your brother mention if this oneCopy !req
470. also bears a marked
but entirely coincidentalCopy !req
471. resemblance to the Commander
of the City Watch?Copy !req
472. He seems to have left that detail out.Copy !req
473. I miss my brother, Daemon.Copy !req
474. As I think do you.Copy !req
475. I miss Westerosi strongwine.Copy !req
476. It could be depended on for a few hours
of peaceful oblivion.Copy !req
477. This amber shit that they drink here.Copy !req
478. Do you never long for home?Copy !req
479. No.Copy !req
480. - I don't believe you.
- Believe what you please.Copy !req
481. You laud the virtues of Pentos,
but you have no interest in it.Copy !req
482. If you did, you would venture
into the city, but instead,Copy !req
483. you spend your time here,
in the library, reading accountsCopy !req
484. of the same dead dragonlords
whose legacy you claimCopy !req
485. has no hold on you.Copy !req
486. Didn't know I was being
so minutely observed.Copy !req
487. You do not sleep.Copy !req
488. Well, how can I with you
haunting my every move?Copy !req
489. Life has, I know, disappointed you.Copy !req
490. Perhaps, I too, am not the wife
you would've wished for yourself.Copy !req
491. Laena.Copy !req
492. It does not pain me.Copy !req
493. I have made my peace.Copy !req
494. But you are more than this, Daemon.Copy !req
495. The man I married was more than this.Copy !req
496. It is Lord Blackwood's
contention, therefore,Copy !req
497. that the Brackens moved
the boundary stonesCopy !req
498. in the dead of the nightCopy !req
499. and put their horses
to graze in his field.Copy !req
500. Why was this issue not
brought before Lord Grover?Copy !req
501. Has he grown so feeble
he cannot settle a quarrel over rocks?Copy !req
502. I've heard tale that Lord Grover's son
now rules Riverrun in all but name.Copy !req
503. Well, he is also a Tully
and this remains a Tully problem.Copy !req
504. I would agree.Copy !req
505. - If we may move on, my lords—
- And yet,Copy !req
506. the Brackens and the BlackwoodsCopy !req
507. will use any excuse
to spill each other's blood.Copy !req
508. So this dispute bears looking into.Copy !req
509. There will be countryfolk who knowCopy !req
510. where the lines have
been drawn for generations.Copy !req
511. That is easy enough.Copy !req
512. Of course.Copy !req
513. Ser Tyland.Copy !req
514. We should addressCopy !req
515. the latest developments
in the Stepstones, my lords.Copy !req
516. Will we ever be shut
of that blasted place?Copy !req
517. If you ask me, I think the Blackwoods haveCopy !req
518. - the upper hand.
- No.Copy !req
519. We've moved on to the Stepstones,
Lord Beesbury.Copy !req
520. And the Triarchy's
new alliance with Dorne.Copy !req
521. I was hoping
our negotiations with SunspearCopy !req
522. might persuade
them to see reason.Copy !req
523. To trust a Martell
is to be disappointed.Copy !req
524. And where, I wonder,
is our Prince Daemon?Copy !req
525. Or I suppose I should call him King,
as he styled himselfCopy !req
526. when he won a battle there... once.Copy !req
527. That was a decade ago and he has
since left the region undefended.Copy !req
528. We have left it undefended.Copy !req
529. There should've been fortifications built,Copy !req
530. watchtowers, a fleet of ships,Copy !req
531. a garrison of soldiers
sent to hold our ground.Copy !req
532. We cannot afford it.Copy !req
533. Our coffers are great, but not infinite.Copy !req
534. We must consider the cost to our subjects.Copy !req
535. - I must agree.
- The cost of war is greater.Copy !req
536. But we have been lax and the old monster
now lifts its head.Copy !req
537. Let us be finished.Copy !req
538. Yes.Copy !req
539. Wait.Copy !req
540. I wish to speak.Copy !req
541. Be seated.Copy !req
542. I have felt the...Copy !req
543. strife...Copy !req
544. between our families of late, my Queen.Copy !req
545. And for any offense given by mine,
I apologize.Copy !req
546. But we are one house.Copy !req
547. And long before that,Copy !req
548. we were friends.Copy !req
549. My son Jacaerys will inherit
the Iron Throne after me.Copy !req
550. I propose we betroth him
to your daughter, Helaena.Copy !req
551. Ally ourselves...Copy !req
552. once and for all.Copy !req
553. Let them rule together.Copy !req
554. A most judicious proposition.Copy !req
555. Additionally, if Syrax brings forth
another clutch of eggs,Copy !req
556. your son Aemond will have
his choice of them...Copy !req
557. a symbol of our goodwill.Copy !req
558. Rhaenyra.Copy !req
559. Oh, Seven Hells.Copy !req
560. My dear...Copy !req
561. a dragon's egg is a handsome gift.Copy !req
562. The King and I thank you for your offer
and we will consider it duly.Copy !req
563. You must rest now, husband.Copy !req
564. Yes.Copy !req
565. How sweetly the fox speaks
when it's been cornered by the hounds.Copy !req
566. - She is sincere.
- She is desperate.Copy !req
567. She feels the earth
washing away beneath her feetCopy !req
568. and now she expects us
to ignore her transgressionsCopy !req
569. and for me to marry my only daughter
to one of her...Copy !req
570. plain-featured sons.Copy !req
571. The proposal is a good one, my Queen.Copy !req
572. We're a family.Copy !req
573. Let us put aside these childish quarrels.Copy !req
574. Join hands and be stronger for it.Copy !req
575. You may do as you wish, husband...Copy !req
576. when I am cold in my grave.Copy !req
577. Alicent.Copy !req
578. Alicent!Copy !req
579. I do not need the blanket—Copy !req
580. The Hand, Your Grace.Copy !req
581. - The King is resting.
- I will see him.Copy !req
582. Lean forward.Copy !req
583. I'm being endlessly fussed over, Lyonel.Copy !req
584. It's a wonder I can visit the privy alone.Copy !req
585. Your Grace.Copy !req
586. What might this errand
be about, Lord Lyonel?Copy !req
587. Your Grace, I feel...Copy !req
588. I have come to resign my position
as Hand of the King.Copy !req
589. The episode in the yard this morning.Copy !req
590. My son Harwin has disgraced himselfCopy !req
591. and every fishwife in King's Landing
will soon be telling the tale.Copy !req
592. Young Harwin's outburst was unfortunate,
it's true.Copy !req
593. But he's been expelled
from the City Watch.Copy !req
594. That seems punishment enough.Copy !req
595. Forgive me, Your Grace, it is not.Copy !req
596. You have served me
faithfully for many years,Copy !req
597. 10 as Hand.Copy !req
598. Your advice has been sage,
unmarked by self-interest...Copy !req
599. which stands in contrast to all others.Copy !req
600. You speak kind words...Copy !req
601. but there is a shadow over my houseCopy !req
602. and it grows ever darker.Copy !req
603. I can no longer serve you with integrity.Copy !req
604. What is this shadow?Copy !req
605. Name it, if it casts such a gloom.Copy !req
606. Yes, we must have your reasoning
in plain language.Copy !req
607. I cannot.Copy !req
608. Then I cannot accept this.Copy !req
609. - My dear husband—
- I said no!Copy !req
610. - If you insist, my King.
- I do.Copy !req
611. You will continue in your service
to the crown.Copy !req
612. I would then ask leave
to take my son from courtCopy !req
613. and escort him back to the family seat
at Harrenhal.Copy !req
614. He is my heirCopy !req
615. and will be lord of Harren's castle
one day.Copy !req
616. It is time he assumed his duties there.Copy !req
617. Do it.Copy !req
618. Aren't you gonna help me?Copy !req
619. I took the liberty of beginning
without you, Your Grace.Copy !req
620. It seemed a sin to let
such a pie grow cold.Copy !req
621. You did wisely, Lord Larys.Copy !req
622. Though you had no such worry
about the wine, surely.Copy !req
623. Meat without wine is also a sin.Copy !req
624. It's been my duty to tell you
of happenings about the castle,Copy !req
625. but tonight you know, and I do not.Copy !req
626. The King had an audience with my father.Copy !req
627. He attempted to resign his post.Copy !req
628. I thought as much.Copy !req
629. His honor's always been a millstone
about his esteemed neck.Copy !req
630. Interesting you said "attempted"?Copy !req
631. My lord husband refused to accept.Copy !req
632. Then he fell short of confessing
my brother's... transgressions.Copy !req
633. With his eruption in the yard,
your brotherCopy !req
634. all but confessed the truth himself.Copy !req
635. Truth has many flavors, Your Grace.Copy !req
636. Do you expect the King to doom
his dear daughter to exile,Copy !req
637. or even—Copy !req
638. Talya, not now.Copy !req
639. It's a willful blindness, the King.Copy !req
640. I mean, you'd surely
suffer the same affliction,Copy !req
641. - if it came to it.
- I would not.Copy !req
642. Lord Lyonel is to escort
Ser Harwin back to HarrenhalCopy !req
643. to watch over his seat whilst he continues
to serve as Hand.Copy !req
644. But the Hand is compromised
by the acts of his son.Copy !req
645. My father cannot give unbiased
counsel to the King.Copy !req
646. It is now that I most rue
the absence of my own father.Copy !req
647. He wouldn't hesitate
to speak the truth to the King.Copy !req
648. If Otto Hightower were still Hand—Copy !req
649. You cannot say, my Queen,
that your father would beCopy !req
650. impartial in this matter.Copy !req
651. No, but he would be partial to me!Copy !req
652. In all of King's Landing,
is there no one to take my side?Copy !req
653. What a collection of heroes
I have before me.Copy !req
654. A murderer...Copy !req
655. a deviant...Copy !req
656. a traitor to the crown.Copy !req
657. For your crimes, you've been sentenced
to death by hanging.Copy !req
658. What do you want with us?Copy !req
659. I am prepared to offer you mercy...Copy !req
660. if you're prepared to pay a little price.Copy !req
661. Push, my Lady.Copy !req
662. Push! Push!Copy !req
663. Push!Copy !req
664. - You must push!
- Push!Copy !req
665. It needs to come now!Copy !req
666. Push!Copy !req
667. Push!Copy !req
668. You must push now, my Lady!Copy !req
669. Push!Copy !req
670. I've reached the limit of my art.Copy !req
671. The child will not come.Copy !req
672. My brave girl.Copy !req
673. I am very sorry, my Prince.Copy !req
674. We could lay open the womb...Copy !req
675. try to remove the infantCopy !req
676. by way of the blade.Copy !req
677. But I cannot say
for a surety whether it lives.Copy !req
678. Would the mother survive it?Copy !req
679. No.Copy !req
680. Vhagar, dracarys.Copy !req
681. Dracarys!Copy !req
682. Dracarys!Copy !req
683. Dracarys.Copy !req
684. Dracarys!Copy !req
685. Dracarys.Copy !req
686. Laena!Copy !req
687. Be good to your mother, lads.Copy !req
688. I'll visit when I can.Copy !req
689. But that may be some time.Copy !req
690. Jace.Copy !req
691. I will return...Copy !req
692. I promise.Copy !req
693. I will be a stranger when we meet again.Copy !req
694. Princess.Copy !req
695. We will exchange letters by raven.Copy !req
696. - Won't that be fun?
- Is Harwin Strong my father?Copy !req
697. Am I a bastard?Copy !req
698. You are a Targaryen.Copy !req
699. That's all that matters.Copy !req
700. A word?Copy !req
701. I take it he's gone.Copy !req
702. We're finished here. We're leaving.Copy !req
703. What of your offer? Jace and Helaena?Copy !req
704. I have been undermined...Copy !req
705. and made a spectacle.
They whisper about me in the corridors.Copy !req
706. Well, I leave them to it.Copy !req
707. To Dragonstone then?Copy !req
708. We should've left years ago.Copy !req
709. What of your position?Copy !req
710. You've always said
if you were absent from court,Copy !req
711. she would pour her honey
in your father's ear.Copy !req
712. The wise sailor flees
the storm as it gathers.Copy !req
713. Laenor...Copy !req
714. bring him.Copy !req
715. We'll need every sword we can muster.Copy !req
716. Fire! I will burn!Copy !req
717. Harwin! Harwin!Copy !req
718. What are children, but a weakness?Copy !req
719. A folly?Copy !req
720. A futility?Copy !req
721. Through them, you imagine you cheatCopy !req
722. the great darkness of its victory.Copy !req
723. You will persist forever,
in some form or another.Copy !req
724. As if they will keep you from the dust.Copy !req
725. But for them,
you surrender what you should not.Copy !req
726. You may know what is
the right thing to be done,Copy !req
727. but love stays the hand.Copy !req
728. Love...Copy !req
729. is a downfall.Copy !req
730. Best to make your way
through life unencumbered...Copy !req
731. if you ask me.Copy !req
732. They're dead.Copy !req
733. You've heard the stories
of Harrenhal, Your Grace.Copy !req
734. It was built in hubris by Harren the BlackCopy !req
735. as a monument to his own greatness.Copy !req
736. Blood mixed into the mortar.Copy !req
737. It is said to be a cursed place.Copy !req
738. That it passes judgment
on all who pass beneath its gates.Copy !req
739. You—Copy !req
740. You passed judgment.Copy !req
741. The Queen makes a wish.Copy !req
742. What servant of the realm
would not strive to fulfill it?Copy !req
743. I assume you will write
to your father now?Copy !req
744. Larys...Copy !req
745. I did not wish for this.Copy !req
746. I feel certain you will reward me...Copy !req
747. when the time is right.Copy !req