MARTINors seemed to know no bounds. Dany rememberedA GAME OF THRONES 619the story Viserys had told her, of what the Usurper's dogs had done to Rhaegar's children. Why did she hurt so much? It was as if her body had been torn to pieces and remade from the scraps. Aerys Targaryen must have thought that his gods had answered his prayers when Lord Tywin Lannister appeared before the gates of King's Landing with an army twelve thousand strong, professing loyalty.
He had only to look down at Robert to know how bad it was. spell-forged steel nor stormsingers nor dragons could hold it back, but Dany had always heard that the east was different. Only here, where the King in the North threw back every army that tried to cross the Neck, did the rule of the First Men endure. Lord Hornwood is dead, and I fear Roose Bolton has escaped us.
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