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| Thursday, November 10, 2005 09:40 AM |
| The Latest from Westeros |
 by Fëanor |
Progress: Page 560.
Feast for Crows spoiler of the day (highlight to read): Jaime's Aunt Genna delivers a fantastic little speech to him at the end of his most recent chapter:You smile like Gerion and fight like Tyg, and there's some Kevan in you, else you would not wear that cloak...but Tyrion is Tywin's son, not you. I said so once to your father's face, and he would not speak to me for half a year. Men are such thundering great fools. Even the sort who come along once in a thousand years. I thought I recognized Clegane's horse, Stranger, in the stable! I'm surprised that he's really just dead, though. I thought somehow there'd be more in store for him, even when Arya left him at the edge of death. Huh.
I reread that line where Arya enters the dark alley with Dareon two or three times, thinking, "Hey, did she just kill him?!" And then she slams his boots on the table, and, holy crap, she did kill him! And holy crap, now she's blind! OMG WTF?!
I'm hoping that's a short-term punishment; maybe the poison in the milk just makes you blind temporarily? Huh? Maybe?
Anyway, the chapter up until that point was a wonderfully rich and beautiful description of life on the streets of Braavos, and I really enjoyed it.
The Samwell chapter with Aemon's funeral was also quite lovely. Sam is such a sweet fool. He should get to Oldtown about the same time as the ironmen. Poor bastard.
So now we've finally heard the entire prophecy Cersei got from Maggy the Frog. I still think the younger and more beautiful girl has got to be Dany. It sounds like Cersei's other kids are going to die, too. Poor little guys. Joffrey deserved it, but Tommen and his sister are just nice little kids.
The part about the valonqar is the puzzling bit. As I understand it, valonqar means brother. If we interpret that literally, it means either Jaime or Tyrion will kill Cersei. But prophecies are rarely literal; it's possible "the valonqar" refers to some metaphorical brother. Hmm...
Holy crap, Brienne met Gendry! How do you like that. Oh, and that's who's been masquerading as The Hound. Oh, no, poor Brienne! That's so nasty, being eaten by Biter. I hope she's okay... Obviously somebody stabbed Biter through the head from behind just as Brienne was passing out. I'm betting on Gendry, but it could have been Sir Hyle. At least we've managed to kill off more of those scumbags. |
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