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The old man hesitated again.  “Say it,” she urged. “A sense... ?”  “... of doom. He

was born in grief, my queen, and that shadow hung over him all his days.”  Viserys had spoken of Rhaegar’s birth only once a police shieldcould hold me upside down and drainmy gutschange your mind. Perhaps the tale saddened him too much.

“It was the shadow of Summerhall that haunted him, was it not?”  “Yes. And yet Summerhall was the place the prince loved best. He would go there from time to time,

with only his harp for company. Even the knights of the Kingsguard did not attend him there. He liked to sleep in the ruined hall, beneath the moon and stars, and

whenever he came . When you heard him play his high harp with the silver strings and sing of twilights and tears and the death of kings,

you could not but feel that he was singing of himself and those he loved.”  “What of the Usurper? Did he play sad songs as well?”  Arstan chuckled. “Robert?

Robert liked songs that made him laugh, the bawdier the better. He only sang when he was drunk, and then it was like to be ‘A Cask of Ale’ or ‘Fifty-Four Tuns’ or

‘The Bear and the Maiden Fair.’ Robert was much -”  As one, her dragons lifted their heads and roared.  “Horses!” Dany leapt to her feet, clutching the lion

pelt. Outside, she heard Strong Belwas bellow something, and then other voices, and the sounds of many horses. “Irri, go see who...”  The tent flap pushed open,

and Ser Jorah Mormont entered. He was dusty, and spattered with blood, but otherwise none the worse for battle. The exile knight went to one knee before Dany and

said, “Your Grace, I bring you victory. The Stormcrows turned their cloaks, the slaves broke, and the Second Sons were too drunk to fight, just as you said. Two

hundred dead, Yunkai’i for the most part. Their slaves threw down their spears and ran, and their sellswords yielded. We have several thousand captives.”  “Our own

losses?”  “A dozen. If that many.”  Only then did she allow herself to smile.
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