[He looks a little less annoyed than he had a moment earlier. Still, he has yet to touch his salad.]
She’s here, you know. Melisandre. She doesn’t remember that much, doesn’t remember Stannis losing to the Boltons. But she is here.
[Finally, contemplative, he picks up the fork, picks up the salad, begins looking for something in it to spear.]
To rule the North, you have to understand the North. Be a Northerner. Even when they bent the knee to the Iron Throne, there was still a Stark as Lord Paramount, and we kept our ancient rights. [The right to perform the king’s justice themselves, for example: they would never have wanted someone like Ramsay Bolton to burn at a southron hand.] As it is now... I don’t have a crown to wear or a throne to sit on. I never will. I only have my people’s faith that I will lead them... against the Dead, and against Cersei.
[He selects a little piece of carrot, some greens, and loads his fork.]
When I spoke of coming south, there were loud voices about your father, about how he broke faith with the North. He summoned my grandfather to King’s Landing and killed him and my uncle. No one in the North knew that you were coming when they made me their king, but —
[Under the circumstances, would it have mattered?]
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She’s here, you know. Melisandre. She doesn’t remember that much, doesn’t remember Stannis losing to the Boltons. But she is here.
[Finally, contemplative, he picks up the fork, picks up the salad, begins looking for something in it to spear.]
To rule the North, you have to understand the North. Be a Northerner. Even when they bent the knee to the Iron Throne, there was still a Stark as Lord Paramount, and we kept our ancient rights. [The right to perform the king’s justice themselves, for example: they would never have wanted someone like Ramsay Bolton to burn at a southron hand.] As it is now... I don’t have a crown to wear or a throne to sit on. I never will. I only have my people’s faith that I will lead them... against the Dead, and against Cersei.
[He selects a little piece of carrot, some greens, and loads his fork.]
When I spoke of coming south, there were loud voices about your father, about how he broke faith with the North. He summoned my grandfather to King’s Landing and killed him and my uncle. No one in the North knew that you were coming when they made me their king, but —
[Under the circumstances, would it have mattered?]