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20. Eddard : Small Council

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Location: KingsLanding Characters: Ned Stark, Catelyn Stark, Littlefinger Ned Stark reaches KingsLanding ahead of the King's party and attends the first meeting of the small council.  Members of the council included Varys, Littlefinger, Maester Pycelle, Renly, Stannis and Barristen Selmy. The councillor Ned liked least was Varys the eunuch. He smell as foul and sweet as flowers on a grave. Why? Lord Renly was always dressed immaculately, its said that he spends more on clothing than half the ladies of the court. Lord Stannis had left for Dragonstone after king went north. Why? Robert once mentioned to Ned that he was surrounded by flatterers and fools. Ned wondered who was what. In the council meeting, it is announced that the king has asked to stage a great tournament in honour of Ned being appointed the Hand of the King. Littlefinger estimates the cost of the tournament at more than ninety thousand gold pieces. Also, crown was already in debt, owing Lord Tywi
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19. Jon : Life at Castle Black

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Location: Castle Black Characters: Jon, Alliser Thorne, Tyrion The Watch had built nineteen great strongholds along the wall, but only three were still occupied. The Eastwatch, the Shadow Tower and between them Castle Black. Jon was training with swords at Castle Black under the supervision of master of arms, Ser Alliser Thorne. Alliser Thorne was a compact man of fifty years, spare and hard, with grey in his black hair and eyes like chips of onyx. He called Jon as Lord Snow as a mockery which everyone picked up. Jon had defeated everyone at practice yet Thorne served him only derision and hated him. He hated the other boys even worse. Jon trained with a group of twenty boys and none he could call a friend. The more time Jon spent with them , more Jon despised them. No one had told him the hard truth about the Night's Watch except Tyrion Lannister. Jon wondered if his father had known what it was like and it hurt it even more. Even Benjen Stark had left for a rang
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18. Catelyn : Meeting with Littlefinger

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Location: KingsLanding Characters: Catelyn, Littlefinger, Varys Catelyn arrives in KingsLanding on the ship named Storm Dancer which belonged to Captain Moreo Tumitis. He spoke the common tongue fluently, with only the slightest hint of a Tyroshi accent. He had been plying the narrow sea for thirty years. He had a forked green beard. The Tyroshi loved bright colours even in their facial hair. This reminds us of another Tyroshi, Majister Illyrio, who had yellow forked beard. Catelyn plans to see Ser Aron Santagar, the King's master of arms who is a vain man but an honest one. Catelyn fears that now that she is in KingsLanding, she can be easily recognised by Littlefinger or Lord Baelish as he was known now. Catelyn's brother Edmure had given him that name long ago at Riverrun. His family's modest holdings were on the smallest of the Fingers and Petyr had been slight and short for his age. He was Cetelyn's father's ward and they grew up together in River
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17. Bran : Summer

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Location: Bran's Dream Characters: Bran, Three Eyed Crow Bran is dreaming that he is falling. He hears a voice asking him to fly. He sees flashbacks from the past. The voice is from a crow which is circling Bran as he falls. Bran says he doesn't have wings to which the crow says that he has different kinds of wings. What does this imply? Bran sees the flashback of Jaime Lannister but the crow asks him to forget it. Why? Is it not important?  The crow says to Bran that he is teaching him to fly. Suddenly Bran realises he is flying. He could see everything so clearly - the whole realm and everyone in it. He saw Maester Luwin and his brother Robb in Winterfell. He saw his mother with Ser Rodrick Cassel in a ship. A storm was gathering ahead of them but somehow they could not see it. He saw his father and sisters at the Trident. He saw them surrounded by shadows - one shadow was dark with terrible face of a hound ( is this Sandor Clegane or an actual hound? ) and anothe
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16. Eddard : The End of Lady

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Location:  King's Road on the way to KingsLanding Characters: Eddard Stark, Arya, Sansa, Joffrey, Cersie, Robert Baratheon Arya was presented before the King for allegations of attack on Joffrey. The queen alleged that Arya and the butcher's boy attacked Joffrey and Arya's wolf tried to tear his arm off. Arya defends herself by saying that the wold only bit him a little because he was hurting Mycah - the butcher's boy. Since Jofferey said something and Arya said something else, Sansa was brought to narrate what exactly happened. But Sansa says that she doesn't remember anything as everything happened so fast. This escalates the tension between the sisters. Cersie wants Arya punished but Robert dismisses the matter by saying that both parties must discipline their children. But Cersie isn't satisfied and insists that the wolf be punished. Arya set of Nymeria free earlier and the wolf was not found. So Cersie insists on Sansa's wolf being slaughtered.
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