They were looking for a highborn girl, daughter of the King's Hand, not for a skinny boy with his hair chopped off. The Lannister guardsmen on the gate were stopping everyone, but Yoren called one by name and their wagons were waved through. Leaving King's Landing was easy, just like he'd said. ![]() That'll be the hardest part, the pissing, so don't drink no more'n you need." So you keep to yourself and make your water in the woods,alone. The other half'd do the same, only they'd rape you first. This lot, half o' them would turn you over to the queen quick as spit for a pardon and maybe a few silvers. "Lord Eddard gave me pick o' the dungeons, and I didn't find no little lordlings down there. I got thirty this time, men and boys all bound for the Wall, and don't be thinking they're like that bastard brother o' yours." He shook her. "Gate shouldn't be hard, but the road's another matter. "Now you hold still, boy." By the time he had finished, her scalp was nothing but tufts and stubble.Īfterward he told her that from there to Winterfell she'd be Arry the orphan boy. "I'm taking men and boys from the city," Yoren growled as the sharp steel scrapedĪt her head. She remembered how the breeze sent the fistfuls of dirty brown hair skittering across the paving stones, toward the sept where her father had died. Only held her tight, sawing through her mats and tangles with his dagger. When Yoren had dragged her into that alley she'd thought he meant to kill her, but the sour old man had For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.Īt Winterfell they had called her "Arya Horseface" and she'd thought nothing could be worse, but that was before the orphan boy Lommy Greenhands had named her "Lumpyhead." Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel.and the coldest hearts. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. A Clash of Kings transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any you have ever experienced.Ī comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. In this eagerly awaited sequel to A Game of Thrones, George R. R.THE BOOK BEHIND THE SECOND SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO. More tracks like A Clash of Kings, By George R.Playlists containing A Clash of Kings, By George R.Users who reposted A Clash of Kings, By George R.Users who like A Clash of Kings, By George R.Wherei can fine the rest Buy A Clash of Kings, By George R. Robb Stark will be exceedingly lucky to reach adulthood. From beyond the Wall the undead and Others clamour for freedom, and from beyond the sea the long-dead Dragon King’s daughter hatches her revenge. The first rule of war is never give the enemy his wish. It has been the longest summer in living memory, lasting ten years, and the smallfolk say it means an even longer winter to come… And a white raven has brought word from the Citadel itself, foretelling summer’s end. Stannis’s child Princess Shireen dreams of dragons waking from stone. ![]() In Dragonstone, Robert’s brother Stannis has declared himself king, while his other brother Renly proclaims himself king at Storm’s End – and Eddard Stark’s fifteen year old son Robb wears the crown of the north at Winterfell.Ī comet in the night sky, red and malevolent, the colour of blood and flame, can only be an omen of murder and war. Even so, Joffrey is now a boy-king, Cersei is his regent, and war is inevitable. His daughter Sansa is betrothed still to his killer’s son Joffrey – Queen Cersei’s son, though not the son of her late husband Robert. At King’s Landing, the head of Lord Eddard Stark rots on a spike for all to see. The Iron Throne once united the Sunset Lands, but King Robert is dead, his widow is a traitor to his memory, and his surviving brothers are set on a path of war amongst themselves. Now a major Sky Atlantic TV series from HBO, featuring a stellar cast. This second volume of A Song of Ice and Fire is unabridged and split into two parts. Martin’s superb fantasy epic continues in consummate style as bloodshed and alchemy lay waste the Seven Kingdoms.
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