he betrayed our cause. he betrayed me.

“The man I considered my closest friend has seized my home and my brothers.”

She found herself remembering the last time she had seen her mother. It had been on Harlaw, at Ten Towers. A candle had been flickering in her mother’s chamber, but her great carved bed was empty beneath its dusty canopy. Lady Alannys sat beside a window, staring out across the sea. “Did you bring my baby boy?” she’d asked, mouth trembling. “Theon could not come,” Asha had told her, looking down upon the ruin of the woman who had given her birth, a mother who had lost two of her sons. And the third …

Come Maester, don’t look so grim, it’s all just a game.

“Here is the answer to your question.”

Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk!
When that this body did contain a spirit,
A kingdom for it was too small a bound,
But now two paces of the vilest earth
Is room enough.
- Henry IV, Part I

I knew a boy who made all the wrong choices.

Did you hate us the whole time?