For just a moment, he imagined himself ordering the deaths of innocent children and other vile acts. Someday, you will have to make these decisions.”Īnd those last words stopped Jaime cold.
We have gained much in this war and lost little. As Lord Lannister, it is my duty to look out for what is best for our house. “You have yet much to learn about what it means to rule. Best to squash the problem before it grows - remember that.” “Young they might have been, but a threat nevertheless. “How could you?! Aegon was just a babe! The princess just a young girl!” But this was such a vile act that any good man should shudder in revulsion. Tywin Lannister was a hard man he had known that. His father looked extraordinarily pleased with himself and, for perhaps the very first time, Jaime felt disgust well up inside him. Rejoice, boy, you are a hero and brother to a queen!” You are dismissed from the Kingsguard and free to become my heir, as you should have been. In return, King Robert will take your sister as his queen. “You mean: did I have the good sense to correct your mistake? Yes, I did - and you should be thankful for it. And his father, the bastard, did not even make the attempt of looking guilty or remorseful.
How foolish of him it had been to think that they would be safe now. “Did you have Prince Aegon and Princess Rhaenys killed?”Īfter all the effort he had made to keep his charges safe from his father’s first murder attempt, his relief at the arriving Stark forces and Lord Eddard’s sense of honor, it was all for naught. “Is what true? You have to be more specific.”
“Is it true?” Jaime growled at his father, who simply continued to sip his wine, looking calmly at his offspring.
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