High atop the pulpit, Ser Ilyn Payne gestured and the knight in black-and-gold gave a command. In his dream he was climbing again, pulling himself up an ancient windowless tower, his fingers forcing themselves between blackened stones, his feet scrabbling for purchase. The last word we had was that Lord Piper was falling back to join your brother and his other bannermen at Riverrun, with Jaime Lannister on his heels. He pulled it over his right shoulder and began to remove the bells from his hair, one by one.
And now to roll the dice, he thought with another quick glance back at Bronn. He had nothing against the squires, but it troubled him to see Robert surrounded by the queen's kin, waking and sleeping. When he kept very still, his leg did not hurt so much, so he did his best to lie unmoving. Oh, no doubt she would have found a coin or two for you when this was all over, and pressed it in your hand with a polite word and a look of distaste, but that's the most you could have hoped for.
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