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[RENLY'S TENT]
[SER LORAS TYRELL mournfully kneels beside RENLY's body. LADY MARGAERY TYRELL paces in the background. LITTLEFINGER enters the tent, just short of a panic.]
"That fucking weasel!" Catelyn sneered. Trust him to take advantage of this situation.
[KING'S LANDING, TYRION'S CHAMBERS]
"Killed? By whom?"
"Accounts differ. Most seem to implicate Catelyn Stark in some way."
Catelyn shifted in discomfort. Of course, she'd be implicated in some way.
[LORD TYRION LANNISTER picks up a goblet.]
"Really? Who'd have thought?"
"Some say it was one of his own Kingsguard, while still others say it was Stannis himself who did it after negotiations went sour."
[TYRION pours himself some wine.]
"Whoever did it, I say well done."
"It's not what Varys says. He says Renly's army is flocking to support Stannis, which would give Stannis superiority over us on both land and sea."
[CERSEI finishes pouring her wine.]
"Littlefinger says we can outspend him three to one."
"By taking more loans and driving the crown further in debt" Jon Arryn sighed.
"Has your father taught her nothing?" Joanna hissed to Tyrion.
"I fear she hears what she wants" Tyrion sighed.
"And I say Father raised you to have too much respect for money. Stannis Baratheon is coming for us, sooner rather than later."
"Aren't there other things you should be doing, like sealing my daughter in a crate so you can ship her away?"
"She'll be safer in Dorne."
"Yes, I know how concerned you are for her safety."
"I am very concerned for both your safety" Tyrion assured his niece and nephew, "even if it might not seem like it."
"We know" Myrcella smiled at him tightly.
"It so happens that I am. Myrcella is a sweet, innocent girl and I don't blame her at all for you."
"So clever. Aren't you always so clever with your schemes and your plots?"
[CERSEI walks past TYRION and sits.]
"They are going to attack us. We need to be ready."
"No need to concern yourself over it. The king is taking personal charge of siege preparations."
"Oh we're all doomed" Tyrion sighed.
"May I ask specifically what the king has in mind?"
"You may, specifically, or you may ask vaguely. The answer will be the same."
"It's important that we talk about this."
"It's the king's royal prerogative to withhold sensitive information from his councillors."
[TYRION exits in frustration, while CERSEI takes a sip, enjoying the upper hand.]
"She'll be gone once we're back. It's only here I need to stand her" Tyrion sighed deeply.
Joanna frowned sadly. Deserved or not, she was still a mother and Cersei was her child. It still stung.
[THE STREETS OF KING'S LANDING]
[BRONN stands waiting among the bustling cityfolk next to a small tent, where TYRION and SER LANCEL LANNISTER meet in secret.]
"It's wildfire."
Jaime jumped violently.
"Brother?" Tyrion asked.
"Nothing" Jaime shook his head and waved the matter off.
Tyrion frowned at his brother.
[STORMLANDS, RENLY'S CAMP]
[STANNIS's forces have landed at RENLY's camp. SER DAVOS SEAWORTH meets STANNIS as he enters the main courtyard, and they move through the compound at a rapid pace.]
"Fools love a fool. I grieve for him as well, for the boy he was, not the man he grew to be."
Renly spat at that, but he said nothing.
"I need to speak to you - about what I saw in that cave."
"I thought I made it clear to you there'd be no need to speak to me on this matter."
"Listen to Ser Davos" Shireen muttered. She hid it well for a child her age, but even she was horrified by what happened to her uncle... and how her father was involved in it.
"All my brother's bannermen have come to my side. Except the Tyrells, who fled like cowards. They won't be able to resist us now. Soon I shall be sitting on the Iron Throne."
"Nothing is worth what this will cost you, not even the Iron"
"I'll hear no more about it."
"When do we sail for King's Landing?"
"As soon as I've consolidated my troops. We'll make short work of the Lannisters' fleet. Once Blackwater Bay is cleared, we'll deliver our troops to their doorstep and take the city."
"And will you bring Lady Melisandre with you?"
"That's not your concern."
"If you take King's Landing with her by your side, the victory will be hers."
"I never thought I'd have reason to doubt your loyalty. Was I wrong?"
"Ser Davos is loyal" Shireen assured her father.
"I know" Stannis' pursed his lips.
"Loyal service means telling hard truths."
"Oh, truth again. All right, what's the truth? The hard truth?
"She's a foreigner preaching her foreign religion. Some believe she whispers orders in your ear and you obey."
"What do you believe?"
"That she's gotten you under her spell by feeding you what you need to hear" Robert grunted, "which is why you don't see the wrong here.
Stannis kept silent.
"You won those bannermen from Renly. Don't lose them to her."
"We set out for King's Landing without Lady Melisandre. And you lead the fleet into Blackwater Bay."
"Your Grace, I'm honoured, but my time on the sea was spent evading ships, not attacking them. The other lords won't be happy."
"Most of those lords should consider themselves lucky I don't hang them for treason. Hard truths cut both ways, Ser Davos."
Shireen smiled. Ser Davos deserved that position most of them all.
[IRON ISLANDS, MORNING]
[LORD THEON GREYJOY walks up a dock dressed in armour. He gazes on a ship and smiles. The crew walks up noisily.]
"You're the crew of the Sea Bitch? I'm your commander. Welcome."
Yara snorts.
"You've really forgotten our ways."
"I haven't had long to get used to them" Theon muttered.
"Yeah well, I don't think you will" She stared at the Starks. Theon did not. He couldn't meet their eyes.
[The crew ignores THEON.]
"Stop. Stop! Your captain commands you to stop!"
"Where are we headed, Captain?"
"The Stony Shore, to raid their villages. There'll be spoils in it for you, and women if you do your jobs well."
"And who decides if we've done our jobs well?"
"I do. Your captain."
[BLACK LORREN stands directly in front of THEON, challenging him.]
"I have been reaving and raping since before you left Balon's balls, Captain. Don't reckon I've got much use for your ideas on how to do it. Don't reckon I've got much use for a captain at all. I think I can do the job of captain real well myself. All I need is a ship. You wouldn't know where I could find myself a ship now, would you?"
[BLACK LORREN walks away down the steps to the dock.]
"Why are they being like that?" Theon asked his sister.
"You haven't earned their respect" Yara answered.
"I am their Lord's son."
"And? Have you earned their respect because of it?" Yara raised a brow.
"The Ironborn need their respects earned. It is not given so easy."
Theon scowled. All he imagined, all he thought of the Iron Islands was wrong.