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    "I've earned myself a reputation / That my bark is much worse than my bite / But I keep snapping at Goliath's hands / With all of my tiny might." - The Crane Wives, 'Take Me to War'.

    “My Khal,” says Mirri, peering up at him, squinting in the dark to make out the lines of his face, the slope of his broad shoulders, his hands clenched at his side, “and if I must choose between the mother and the child?”

    He steps towards her, then, and she falls back with silent terror for an instant. But he does not seize her, only grinds out, “Save my son. He is the Stallion-Who-Mounts-the-World. He will rule the great Grass Sea and the stones of the West.”

    Ah, she thinks. And such hope I had for you, Drogo. But there is nothing. You are no shepherd, not even to a single lamb. You are the wolf, or better yet, the wild dog, and there is nothing in you but howling greed.

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    01 Nov 2022

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    "This is the song for Baby Birch / Though I will never know you. / And at the back of what we've done / There is the knowledge of you." - Joanna Newsom, 'Baby Birch.'

    My babe was a daughter, she thinks. A little girl. I would have named her- I had thought… for a horrifying moment, she cannot even remember what she meant to call her own babe. Then she says, “Clarisse.” Ned Stark simply looks at her. Wylla shifts from foot to foot, the babe gurgling in her arms, her watchful almond eyes darting from Ashara to Stark and back again.

    “We will call her Clarisse,” says Ashara. “Clarisse Sand. Do not believe this constitutes any- any sort of…” Sort of what? Forgiveness? Amity? “She will be my child,” she hisses. “Mine. You will have no claim, no say, never- Never come here again. When she is of age, then we will- her and I- we will discuss it. She will be a bastard of House Dayne. Not House Stark. Not yours. Do you understand? Otherwise, take her, and go where you will. Pray your new king accepts whatever halfhearted lie you come up with.”

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    16 Oct 2021

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    She only wanted to live a long and happy life. But in that world, that was too much to ask for.

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    27 Sep 2021

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    In a kinder world, Tywin Lannister would be wedding his lucky bride in full view of the glittering and hushed court, afforded every honor due to the favor he has gained from the Targaryens at such a young age.

    Well, this is not a kinder world, and in this world, Lann the Clever’s golden threads unspooled a different way, leading down a winding crevice, into the dark. Into Ellyn Reyne’s womb, where, most treacherously, a seed of Tion Lannister’s took root before he died in battle at the Wendwater, during the latest Blackfyre Rebellion, a youth of eighteen. But eighteen is old enough to breed, and so he did.

    The Lannisters might have been well rid of Ellyn, the grasping bitch, but she had the audacity to get with child, and one can assume that while dear Jeyne prayed her hardest for her goodsister to miscarry the babe, and perhaps contemplated slipping her some moon tea, Ellyn’s belly grew with every month following Tion’s death. Six months later, she gave birth to a daughter, who, once she’d recovered from the disappointment of a girl, she promptly named Rohanne.

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    Cale gets kidnapped by White Star.

    Available in Russian (translated by kokushibyo)

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    01 Mar 2021