Robert Baratheon had looked old and fat when he visited Winterfell, yet he'd seemed hale enough, and there'd been no talk of illness. Escort him to my solar, Ned said, reaching for a fresh tunic, the lightest linen he could find. So the slaver has become a spy, Ned said with distaste. When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die, she whispered.
Well, there it is, Ned. She was about to say as much when she saw the battlements ahead, long parapets built into the very stone of the mountains on either side of them. His eyes were curiously pale, almost without color, and his look disturbing. MARTINfigure on a black courser, with red-gold hair and a black satin cloak dusted with stars.
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