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The inexorable progress to King’s Landing of Robert and his new Hand Ned is further delayed while the two of them try their hardest to keep a lid on the powder keg caused by Joffrey and Arya’s confrontation. They’d have managed it too but for Cersei and her thirst for vengeance at any cost. No relationship escapes unscathed and we break it all down. 

Chapter Review 
Arya is found and taken before the king. A kangaroo-court is quickly convened in which Arya tells the truth, Joffrey lies through his teeth, and Sansa betrays everyone by saying she cannot recall the events. Robert, channeling his inner Solomon, judges that Arya needs to be disciplined by Ned while he will do the same with Joffrey. But Cersei has no time for fairness or win-wins. She goads the king until the sentence is increased to death - for Lady? Sansa’s direwolf? Go figure. Ned does that Ned thing and dispatches Lady himself. Sansa is broken-hearted and Arya is seething. Salt in the wounds, when the butcher’s boy Micah is killed by the Hound. 

Characters/Places/Names/Events 
Darry - The ancestral seat of House Darry. Known Targaryen loyalists. 
Eddard (Ned) Stark  - Lord of Winterfell. Hand of the King. 
Sansa Stark - Eldest daughter of Ned. 
Arya Stark  - Younger daughter of Ned. 
King Robert Baratheon - First of his name. 
Queen Cersei Lannister - Wife of Robert. 
Prince Joffrey Baratheon - Heir to the iron throne. 
Renly Baratheon - Youngest brother of King Robert. 
Ilyn Paine - Robert’s tongueless executioner. 
Nymeria - Arya’s direwolf. 
Lady - Sansa’s direwolf. 
Micah - Butcher’s boy and friend to Arya. 
The Hound - Sandor Clegane - Brutish murderer of Micah. 

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