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Since when do you light your own candles?
Since I decided that I can't stand to look at any of my handmaidens for another instant.
How many times can you read one raven scroll?
Stannis Baratheon's fleet has been spotted sailing north past Tarth, 200 ships.
- More than we have. - Yes, that's more than we have.
He'll be at our gates within five days, four if he has the wind.
We have strong, high walls.
We'll rain fire down on them from above.
"Rain fire on them from above." You're quoting Father, aren't you?
Why not?
He has a good mind for strategy, doesn't he?
Call it tactics, not strategy.
But, yes, he does have a good mind for it.
The best mind, some would say. Sadly, he's not here.
It's just you, me and Joffrey,
the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm.
I'm sure you'll make a point eventually.
He needs to start acting like a king.
This war you started is coming to our doorstep.
And if the entire city wants Joffrey dead...
I'm not the one giving the boy *** to abuse.
I thought the girls might help him.
- Did you? - I was wrong.
If we can't control him...
Do you think I haven't tried?
He doesn't listen to me.
It's hard to put a leash on a dog once you've put a crown on its head.
I always hoped he'd be like Jaime.
He looks like him.
In a certain light.
The boy is more Robert than Jaime.
Robert was a drunken fool, but he didn't enjoy cruelty.
Sometimes I wonder.
What?
If this is the price
for what we've done,
for our sins.
Sins?
The Targaryens...
Wed brother and sister for hundreds of years, I know.
That's what Jaime and I would say to each other in our moments of doubt.
It's what I told Ned Stark when he was stupid enough to confront me.
Half the Targaryens went mad, didn't they?
What's the saying?
"Every time a Targaryen is born, the Gods flip a coin."
You've beaten the odds.
Tommen and Myrcella are good, decent children, both of them.