The first time Balon took a crown, it was me sailed into Lannisport to singe the lion's tail. He kissed her long and hard and would have pushed her skirts up, but Arianne broke free of him, laughing. The gold of Casterly Rock and the Golden Tooth has made them the wealthiest of the Great Houses. He was barefoot, and dressed in a plain, rouglispun tunic of undyed wool that made him look more like a beggar than a lord.
He showed them to Jaime by the light of a candle, grinning: woven portraits of all the Targaryen kings. If they'd ever have met, there'd be one more blood} head sitting on the shelf at the Whispers, you ask me. In battle half a heartbeat is a lifetime. He was a short, rotund, bowlegged man with a bush of wild red hair, the father of one of Jaime's squires; the resemblance to the boy was unmistakeable.
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