![]() ![]() In Castle Black's courtyard, Jon Snow trains under the direction of Ser Alliser Thorne and has no trouble besting the other recruits in combat. He's learned that he'll never walk again and tells Robb that he wishes he'd been killed. ![]() Bran tells his brother that he still remembers nothing of the fall. The door slams opens, interrupting her talk, and Robb Stark walks into the room. ![]() When he asks for a scary tale, she tells him of the winter that lasted a generation, when the White Walkers came, hunting men on dead horses with packs of pale spiders the size of dogs. In bed at Winterfell, Bran Stark rests while listening to Old Nan tell stories. He even allows her to keep the blade - if she promises not to stick her sister with it. Ned assures her it wasn't her fault - or Sansa's. She tells her father she asked Mycah to practice with her, and now the boy is dead. Sansa rejects the doll he brings her as a gift, and when he checks in on Arya in her bedroom, she's holding her sword, Needle. Ned returns to his chambers to find Sansa and Arya fighting. "Everyone who isn't us," Cersei tells her son, "is an enemy." He'll have the power to rewrite history, she promises, but he also must know when to conserve his strength in the realm. Queen Cersei Baratheon dresses the wounds her son, Prince Joffrey Baratheon, suffered when Arya's direwolf attacked him and explains to him the privileges and challenges of being king. Ned orders the tournament canceled, but quickly realizes his outburst is impolitic and begs the council's pardon. When the council gets down to the business of planning a tournament to honor Ned's appointment as Hand, he is shocked to learn that the crown is deeply in debt. Ned speaks gruffly with each of them - except for Renly, whom he embraces. Ned reaches the council chamber and is greeted by the group's members: Lord Varys, Master of Whisperers Lord Renly Baratheon, the king's brother and lord of Storm's End Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish, Master of Coin and Grand Maester Pycelle, an aged maester who's served King's Landing for decades. The two men exchange barbs, and then Jaime recounts the day that the Mad King Aerys murdered Ned's father and brother in the throne room. On his way through the Red Keep, Ned sees Ser Jaime Lannister standing by the Iron Throne. Lord Ned Stark arrives at King's Landing, and before he can shake off the dust of the road, his presence is requested by the Small Council. ![]()
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