"Myrcella is my only daughter." "Do you really think I'll let you sell her like a common whore?" "Dorne is the safest place for her." "You cannot stop it." "No!" "wait." "It wasn't her." "You can't avenge him if you're dead." "I welcome you." "Mother of Dragons." "Stannis will be here in an hour." "Renly's bannermen will flock to him." "Calling yourself king doesn't make you one." "I wasn't a queen." "Do you want to be a queen?" "I want to be the queen." "There on that mountain." "We need to get rid of those lookouts." "I need to move fast and silent." "I'd like to join Lord Qhorin." "Aye." "Are you going to kill Joffrey?" " If the Gods give me strength." " And then what?" "First we have to win the war." "You never told me where you're from." "Volantis." "You're one of them now." "I should have let you burn." "You saved me and the two I was with." "You stole three deaths from the Red God." "Speak three names." "I can name anyone?" "And you'll kill him?" "A man has said." "The one who tortures everyone." "They call him the Tickler." "The Stony Shore's not far from Torrhen's Square." "More impressive prize than a few fisherman's daughters. the Starks would send their men to take it back." "Take me to my ship." "Torrhen's Square is under siege." "Torrhen's Square is barely 40 leagues from here." "Ser Rodrik." "Take the men you need." "What did you see in your dream?" "That the sea came to Winterfell." "Drowned men were floating in the yard." "Ser Rodrik was one of them." "I've taken your castle." "Theon?" "It's Prince Theon now." "Get up." "You have to get dressed." "I've taken Winterfell." "I took it." "I'm occupying it." "I sent men over the walls with grappling claws and ropes." "Why?" "To take the castle." "You went with Robb." "And he sent me back to Pyke." "I'm a Greyjoy." "I can't fight for Robb and my father both." "Where's Hodor?" "I don't know." "Find the halfwit." "My men are bringing your people together in the courtyard." "Why?" "So you and I can go down and tell them how you've yielded Winterfell to me." "I won't." "you will." "I won't." "I'll never yield." "We'll fight you and throw you out. but these people are still yours. to keep them alive." "That's what a good lord would do." "Think carefully about what you want to say." "Theon." "Did you hate us the whole time?" "I've yielded Winterfell to Theon." "Louder." "Say Prince Theon." "I've yielded Winterfell to Prince Theon." "You all know me." "we know you for a steaming sack of shit." "you be silent." "Farlen." "He has more sense than you do." "All of you should do as he commands." "My father has donned the ancient crown of salt and rock and declared himself King of the Iron Islands." "He claims the North as well by right of conquest." "You are all his subjects." "Bugger that." "I serve the Starks." "If you think you can hold the North with this..." "Shut up!" "I will be as good to you as he ever was." "and you will wish you hadn't. send a raven to Pyke informing my father of my victory here and one to Deepwood Motte to my sister." "Inform her that she's to bring 500 men to Winterfell." "You are a Maester of the Citadel are you not?" "I am." "I am the Lord of Winterfell as Bran just informed you." "Send the ravens." "My Lord." "My Lord Greyjoy." "I see you've finally learned how to address your betters." "What do you want?" "I was brought here a captive." "You were here the day I was taken." "I'm the one who took you." "What of it?" "Let me serve you." "Serve me how?" "not kitchen sluts." "It was Robb Stark who put me in the kitchens." "Put a spear in my hand again." "So you can bury it in my neck?" "Do you take me for a fool?" "Get up." "Step aside." "Why?" "little Lord." "The ocean has come to swallow this place." "I ain't letting it drown me." " And in a few days' time..." " Greyjoy!" "What have they done to him?" "We caught this one on this way back from Torrhen's Square." "Took out two of ours before I got his sword. it grieves me that we meet as foes." "It grieves me you've less honor than a back alley whore." "You were raised here under this roof." "These people are your people." "They are not my people." "King Robb thought of you as a brother." "My brothers are dead." "men like you." "they died fighting a war your father started." "Lord Stark raised you among his own sons." "but not one of them." "I was his hostage taken from my home." "If he were alive to see this..." "He's not." "He's dead." "The Seven Kingdoms are at war." "And Winterfell is mine." "I should have put a sword in your belly instead of in your hand." "old man." "But keep talking and I'll..." "Take him to the cells." "Lock him up... you cannot let that stand." "He must pay." "I'll lock him in a cell until he rots... he has to pay the iron price." "They'll never respect you while he lives." "I sentence you to death." "No!" "You said no harm would come to them if I yielded." "The old man couldn't keep his mouth shut." "I urge you not to make a hasty decision." "He disrespected me in front of my men." "not mine." "He is worth more to you alive than dead." "The Starks will pay. think what you do." "You'll address me as Prince Theon or you'll be next." "Come." "No!" " No!" " Theon!" "Please!" "Ser Rodrik!" "He who passes the sentence should swing the sword." " I'm begging you!" " Coward." "Stop!" "Stop right now!" "little Lord." "child." "I'm off to see your father." "You said no harm would come!" "please." "old man?" "Theon Greyjoy." "Now you are truly lost." "don't." " Do something." " I'll do anything." "Please!" "stop it!" "stay with us." "Ghost!" "There goes your pet." "He's not a pet." "he's not." "You can't tame a wild thing." "You can't trust a wild thing." "Ghost is different." "So you think. their own reasons." "And you'll never know them." "Now the wildlings we're looking for sleep during the day and hunt at night." "I thought you said you couldn't know wild things." "I said you can't." "They find a nice cave to hide in while the sun's up and do their killing when it's dark." "We could do the same." "we couldn't." "This is their country." "where not to walk." "I've lost good men who fell into a crevasse they didn't see till they were in it." "My father always said I'm of the North." "I wasn't joking." "boy." "This look like home to you?" "it'll kill you." "You understand me?" "you don't." "We're at war." "We've always been at war." "It's never going to end 'cause we're not fighting an enemy." "We're fighting the North and it's not going anywhere." "The Watch has given you a great gift." "You only have one thing to give in return - your life." "I'll gladly give my life." "I don't want you to be glad about it." "I want you to curse and fight until your heart's done pumping." "boy... your death will be a gift for them south of the Wall." "They'll never know what you've done." "They'll never know how you died. but they'll be alive because some nameless bastard north of the Wall gave his life for theirs. do you understand me?" "I do." "You're even dumber than you look. make us feel like we've got a purpose." "Come on." "We've got to find these goat fuckers before night falls and they find us." "Can you read?" "My Lord?" "Can you read?" "This letter detailing our infantry movements was meant for Lord Damon of House Marbrand." "It was sent to Lord Marlyn of House Dormand." "My Lord." "I must have... fetch me the "History of the Greater and the Lesser Houses"." "It's the one on the..." "My cupbearer can read better than you." "To whom does House Dormand owe allegiance?" "I..." "To the Starks of Winterfell!" "000 men and my son!" "I judged you might be good for something more than brutalizing peasants." "I see I overestimated you." "I'll..." "Leave us." "girl." "Maybe you should devise our next battle plan while you're about it." "Lord Petyr Baelish." "Hmmm." "Give us the room." "Clear all this." "Lord Tywin." "Baelish." "Wine?" "Thank you." "What news from the capital?" "I travelled here directly from Renly Baratheon's camp." "the late king Renly." "Rather a short reign." "I hear." "So they say." "There has been talk of... dark forces." "Here." "Men love to blame demons when their grand plans unravel." "It is my belief that a moment of chaos affords opportunities lost soon after." "You say that as if you were the first man alive to think it." "a crisis is an opportunity." "What other brilliant insights have you brought me today? the Tyrells command the largest host. feeding horses and soldiers." "yes." "The Tyrells have not yet declared for any of the surviving kings." "Loras wants revenge." "He blames Stannis for Renly's death." "And Margaery..." "Wants to be queen." "she does. against my grandson." "They did." "And perhaps that treason should be punished" "after Stannis and Robb Stark are defeated." "More wine for Lord Baelish." "I believe that an advantageous agreement..." "The Tyrell host has returned to Highgarden?" "They have." "My Lord." "It's only wine." "You would ride there yourself?" "with your leave." "I'll have an answer by nightfall." "girl." "What else? I met with Catelyn Stark." "Why?" "He had an interesting proposal for her concerning her daughters." "Hmm." "A girl." "A wildling." "We could question her." "You could." "She won't answer." "I've known a wildling to bite off his tongue instead of talking." "What's your name?" "Ygritte." "She was reaching for this axe when you got to her." "she'll bury it in your face." "I gave you my name." "I'm Jon Snow." "You ought to burn them you killed." "We'd need a big fire for that. why do you want us to build a big fire?" "Are there some more friends in the area?" "Burn them or maybe you'll need those swords again." "Our boy here's already killed one dead man." "He can do it again if he has to." "What waits beyond the pass?" "The Free Folk." "How many?" "Hundreds and thousands." "crow." "Why come to the mountains?" "What's in the Frostfangs your king could want?" "Do you mean to march on the Wall?" "girl?" "Qhorin Halfhand." "Tell me true. would they take me prisoner?" "They'd take your head off your shoulders if they was feeling kind." "they'd kill you slow." "We have no food for her." "Can't spare a man to watch her." "Can't let her go." "She'll bring Mance Rayder's army down on us." "It needs to be done." " Want me to do it?" " No." "I'll do it." "brothers." "We'll leave him to it." "We'll meet you at the top." "Don't take too long." "We're deep in their country now." "did you?" "You don't need to do it." "Mance would take you." "I know he would." "There's secret ways." "The crows would never catch us." "I'm as much a crow as they are." "Will you burn me... after?" "Can't." "Someone might see the smoke. or I'll come back and haunt you." "That's cold." "Go on." "Be quick about it." "Do it." "do it!" "You can't do it." "We both know it." "Jon Snow." "And your friends are nowhere close." "I'll find them." "Call for them." "Go on." "Call loudly." "May the Seven guide the princess on her journey." "May the Mother give her health." "May the Crone give her wisdom." "May the Warrior give her courage." "One day I pray you love someone. you see her face." "I want that for you. before I take her from you." "You sound like a little cat mewling for his mother." "Princes don't cry." "I saw you cry." "My Lady?" "My little brother cried when I left Winterfell." "So?" "It seems a normal thing." "Is your little brother a prince?" "No." "is it?" "dog." "Joffrey!" "Hail to the king." "Your Grace." "Murderer!" "Bastard!" "All hail the king." "He's no king." "He's a bastard!" "we're hungry." "Freak!" "Get the prince back to the keep now." "quickly." "give us some food!" "please!" "Who threw that?" "I want the man who threw that." "Find who did that and bring him to me!" " Hold on!" " Hold them back!" "Just kill them!" "Kill them all!" " Move." "Move!" " Pull back!" "Tear him to pieces!" "What are you doing?" "I want these people executed!" "And they want the same for you." "Where's Sansa?" "Through the door!" "Come on!" "Protect the king!" " Get back!" " Fall back!" " Move!" " To the gates!" "Come in!" "Come in!" "Keep him safe!" " Motherfucker!" " Motherfucker!" " Watch out." "Hold them back." " Come on." "Hey!" "Traitors!" "I'll have all their heads." "bloody fool." "You can't insult me. but I don't know if we've ever been cursed with a vicious idiot for a king." "I am." "They attacked me!" "so you decided to kill them all?" "you fool." "All because of a war you started." "You're talking to a king!" "And now I've struck a king." "Did my hand fall from my wrist?" "Where is the Stark girl?" "Let them have her." "you'll never get your Uncle Jaime back." "you know." "Where are you going?" "little girl?" "Come here." "Take some men and go and find the Stark girl." "I take my orders from the king." "This way!" "Please!" "no." "Please!" "little bird." "You're all right." " We'll get you." "We'll get you." " This way." "My Lady?" "The little bird's bleeding. see to that cut." "Clegane." "I didn't do it for you." "He shouldn't make me wait." "The Spice King is the second wealthiest man in Qarth." "He makes everyone wait." "you could have avoided this embarrassment if you married the wealthiest man in Qarth." "I already have a husband." "Khaleesi." "You are far too young to be a widow forever and... far too beautiful." "And you are far too smart to think that I will succumb to flattery." "I have travelled very far in my life but none that are immune to flattery." " The Mother of Dragons!" " Ah." "Here he comes." "Forgive me." "I had terrible dreams last night." "Terrible dreams." "I could not sleep until the sun was shining and the birds were singing." "Look what a beauty you are now the Red Waste has been washed off you." "I am sorry about all that unpleasantness." "The silver hair of a true Targaryen." "she is far too lovely for a glorified dockworker like yourself. married a lady far lovelier and higher born than himself." "Every lady alive was lovelier and higher born than my grandfather." "Ahem." "to drink?" "I'll have them flogged in the square. but there is no servant alive that can bring me what I want." "this one." "what is it you want?" "My birthright - the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros." "I fear I'm no better than a servant in this regard." "I cannot give you what I do not have." "I'm not asking you for the Kingdoms." "I'm asking you for ships." "I need to cross the Narrow Sea." "I need my ships as well. to bring spices from one port to another." "Whatever you grant me now will be repaid three times over when I retake the Iron Throne." "Retake?" "Did you once sit on the Iron Throne?" "My father sat there before he was murdered. would it not be correct to say take the Iron Throne?" "I didn't come here to argue grammar." "Of course not." "You came to take my ships. little princess." "I do not have exalted ancestors." "I make my living by trade." "And I judge every trade on its merits." "You ask for ships." "You say I shall be repaid triple." "I do not doubt your honesty or your intentions. you must seize the Seven Kingdoms." " Do you have an army?" " Not yet." "You do not have an army." "Do you have powerful allies in Westeros?" "There are many there that support my claim." "When were you there last?" "I left when I was a baby." "you have no allies." "The people will rise to fight for their rightful Queen when I return." "Ah. but I cannot make an investment based on wishes and dreams." "Now if you'll pardon me." "Magister of Pentos?" "we've met." "A shrewd man." "For my wedding he gave me three petrified dragon eggs." "He believed..." "the world believed that the ages had turned them to stone." "How many centuries has it been since dragons roamed the skies?" "But I dreamt that if I carried those eggs they would hatch." "my own people thought I was mad. the Mother of Dragons." "Do you understand?" "I'm no ordinary woman." "My dreams come true." "I admire your passion." "not passion." "little princess." "I am not your little princess." "I am Daenerys Stormborn of the blood of old Valyria and I will take what is mine." "I will take it." "but not with my ships." "Who taught you to read?" "My Lord." "Hmm." "I taught my son Jaime to read. told me he wasn't learning." "He couldn't make sense of the letters." "He reversed them in his head." "The Maester said he'd heard tell of this affliction and that we simply must accept it." "Ha!" "I sat Jaime down for four hours every day until he learned." "for a time. but he learned." "Where is your father?" "Is he alive?" "Who was he?" "A stonemason." "A stonemason who could read?" "Hmm." "He taught himself." "Quite a man." "What killed him?" "Loyalty." "aren't you?" "Did..." "My Lord." "I shouldn't ask questions." "No..." "But you've already begun." "My Lord?" "I did." "I grew up with him." "I watched him grow old." "He loved us. a weak man who nearly destroyed our House and name." "I'm cold." "My Lord." "Mmm." "girl?" "My Lord." "Why?" "Lord Tywin sent me." "What might this be?" "Lord Tywin gave it to me." "What for?" "To take to the armory." "Why would he do that?" "Let's go and ask him." "Move!" "Get out of the way!" "Amory Lorch." "A girl has named a second name." "A man will do what must be done." "Now!" "A girl cannot tell a man when exactly he must do a thing." "A man cannot make a thing happen before its time." "But he's going to tell Tywin." "He's getting away." "It has to be now." "Guard!" " Your Grace." " Your Grace." "Your Grace." "Your Grace." " Your Grace." " Quent." "Lady Talisa." "Your Grace." "I'm not sure I'm a lady." "Westerosi customs are still a bit foreign to me." "It's hard to keep all the rules straight. a woman of noble birth is always called a lady unless she's a queen or a princess." "I could find someone who knows." "Why are you so sure I'm of noble birth?" "Because it's obvious." "What if I told you my father sold lace on the long bridge and I lived with him above our shop?" "I'd call you a liar." "Not very noble to accuse a lady of dishonesty." "I always thought I was a brilliant liar." "I'm afraid." "Quite a pretty spot." "Will we be here long?" "I couldn't really discuss troop movements with you." "I'm not a spy." "Of course a spy would deny being a spy." "You're right." "You've found me out." "I'm writing a letter to the Lannisters." "The Young Wolf is on the move." "Perhaps you'd join me... well..." "Robb." "Mother." "this is Lady Talisa." "She's been helping with the wounded." "She's been very..." "helpful." "Lady Talisa." "Lady Stark." "Lady Talisa...?" "Maegyr." "Maegyr?" "I do not know this name." "An uncommon name here." "An old name in Volantis." "My Lady." "Your Grace." "I've missed you." "you look positively forlorn." "that's all." "I didn't think I'd see you today." "I wish that you were free to follow your heart." "I know." "You have inherited your father's responsibilities." "I'm afraid they come at a cost." " I know." " You are promised to another... a debt that must be paid." "I haven't forgotten." "Your Grace." "My Lady." "News from Winterfell." "Your brothers desert you?" "I can tell you which way to go." "We'll stop here." "Too dark to go any farther today." "Here?" "There's no shelter here." "There's no shelter anywhere." "There is if you know where to look." "The cold could kill us both." " If you light a fire..." " No fire." " But a fire is..." " No fire." "Have it your way." "We'll stay warmer if we stay close." "Bet you freeze to death before I do." "Bet your life." "Think they're out looking for you?" "Yes." "Think they'll find you?" "Yes." "You're brave. but brave." "We start again at first light." "Get some sleep." "Stop moving." "I'm just trying to get comfortable." "Stop it!" "You're still moving." "Was I?" "I didn't notice that time." "This cannot be true." "Barrowton and the Dreadfort." "I'm afraid it is true." "Why?" "Why would Theon..." "Because the Greyjoys are treasonous whores." "My brothers?" "We've heard nothing of them." "But Rodrik Cassel is dead." "never trust a Greyjoy!" "I must go North at once." "Your Grace." "How can I call myself king if I can't hold my own castle?" "How can I ask men to follow me if I can't..." "You are a king." "And that means you don't have to do everything yourself." "Let me go and talk to Theon." "There will be no talk." "He will die for this." "Theon holds the castle with a skeleton crew." "Let me send word to my bastard at the Dreadfort." "He can raise a few hundred men and retake Winterfell before the new moon." "We have the Lannisters on the run." "you'll lose what you gained." "My boy would be honored to bring you Prince Theon's head." "Tell your son Bran and Rickon's safety is paramount." "And Theon..." "I want him brought to me alive." "I want to look him in the eye and ask him why." "And then I'll take his head myself." "Why on earth would I trust the word of a lying little savage like you?" "I'm no liar." "All wildlings are liars and savages with no loyalty to anything or anyone." "I done what I had to do to stay alive." "I hate the Starks as well as you do." "My Lord." "How?" "And don't tell me to put a spear in your hand." "My Lord." "and you'd do well... my prince." "Like what?" "the free people." "You know things?" "Like what?" "How to eat dirt?" "Other things." "Savage things." "Wait outside." "I always wondered what you had under there." "It comes at a price." "I'm not killing you." "That's your price." "I already had that. other than your miserable life?" "What all free people want - my freedom." "then." "But only if you serve me well." " Ow." " Shh." "It's not deep." "I thought they were going to kill me." "too." "the man who hit me." "I saw it in his eyes." "Hated me." "but... he wanted to hurt me." "Of course he did." "Why?" "Why would a stranger..." "You are everything he will never have." "Your horse eats better than his children." "It doesn't matter now." "He's dead." "I would have given them bread if I had it." "I hate the King more than any of them." "Don't say these things." "If the wrong people hear you..." "But you're not the wrong people." "Don't trust anybody." "Life is safer that way." "And where are you going?" "I have something for you from Prince Theon." "What?" "Me." "He says I'm to make the rounds." "And keep you warm." "The Spice King refuses me because I'm a bad investment." "The Silk King won't support me because of his business with the Lannisters." "Why offend his best customer?" "And the Copper King offers me a single ship on the condition that I lie with him for a night." "Does he think I will whore myself for a boat?" "I had nothing." "Truly nothing." "I slept by the docks." "I would eat." "I dreamed of food." "Today I am the richest man in Qarth." "Do you think the path from poverty to wealth is always pure and honorable? that a righteous man would condemn." "with no regrets." "Bar the gates." "Ring the bells." "Khaleesi." "Where are they?" "Where are my dragons?" "!"