The griffin’s men seize every horse and mule they come upon. “you’ll not find better this side of Storm’s End. “They’re old, but sound,” claimed the hostler. They had no trouble buying horses, though the cost was five times what it would have been last year. That was another lesson that her father had taken pains to teach her choose your side with care, and only if they have the chance to win.
“It would be best if King’s Landing never knew we’d passed this way.” Should Lord Connington’s rebellion be put down, it would go ill for them if it was known that Dorne had sent her to treat with him and his pretender. “Guard your tongues,” Arianne warned her company as they disembarked. The banners flapping from the town’s stout wooden walls still displayed King Tommen’s stag-and-lion, suggesting that here at least the writ of the Iron Throne might still hold sway. The Peregrine made port at the Weeping Town, where the corpse of the Young Dragon had once lingered for three days on its journey home from Dorne. All along the south coast of Cape Wrath rose crumbling stone watchtowers, raised in ancient days to give warning of Dornish raiders stealing in across the sea.
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