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Ahem.
I didn't mean to disturb you.
You haven't.
We'd like some privacy, please.
If you wouldn't mind waiting back inside the keep.
Or if you'd be kind enough to give me your names,
I'll ask the king to speak with you himself.
What did you pray for?
- I can't tell you. - Why not?
I'll tell you what I prayed for in the sept this morning.
Let's see, for my family's health and happiness,
for an end to the war, for a short winter.
Boring and traditional, I'm afraid.
- And you? - I'm sorry, I just can't.
My cousin Alanna
was the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen.
When I was 12, I was all elbows and knees
and Alanna looked like a goddess sent to torture me.
Pig-face, she called me.
Pig-face? That's ridiculous.
I think it had something to do with my nose.
Whenever she passed me in the halls, she'd oink.
So I prayed that she'd catch a horrible skin disease.
A week after that, she came down with porridge plague.
- Porridge plague? - You don't have it in the North?
Your skin starts to look like boiled oats
and eventually your face slides off and you die in agony.
But that's awful.
You're
I believed you!
Porridge plague. I'm an idiot.
Don't say that. No, you're not.
So what happened to Alanna?
Oh, she grew up to be the most beautiful woman
and married a handsome lord and they have darling children
and live in a castle by the sea.
It's all terribly frustrating.
I'm sure she's jealous of you now.
You'll be married here in the capital
and she'll have to come watch and pretend to be happy that you're queen.
I want us to be friends, good friends.
That would make me very happy.
You must see Highgarden.
You'd love it there. I know you would.
We have a great masquerade the night of the harvest moon.
You should see the costumes.
People work on them for months.
I I don't think the queen
would let me leave King's Landing.
The Queen Regent, you mean.
Once I marry Joffrey, I'll be queen.
And if you were to marry Loras
Oh, your place would be at Highgarden, wouldn't it?
We would be sisters, you and I.
Would you like that?