They had warned him to dress warmly. Tyrion Lannister took them at their word. He was garbed¹ in heavy quilted breeches and a woolen² doublet, and over it all he had thrown the shadowskin cloak he had acquired in the Mountains of the Moon. The cloak was absurdly long, made for a man twice his height. When he was not ahorse, the only way to wear the thing was to wrap it around him several times, which made him look like a ball of striped fur.  Even so, he was glad he had listened. The chill in the long dank vault³ went bone deep. Timett had chosen to retreat back up to the cellar after a brief taste of the cold below. They were somewhere under the hill of Rhaenys, behind the Guildhall of the Alchemists. The damp stone walls were splotchy with nitre, and the only light came from the sealed ironand-glass oil lamp that Hallyne the Pyromancer carried so gingerly.  Gingerly indeed... and these would be the ginger⁵ jars. Tyrion lifted one for inspection⁶. It was round and ruddy, a fat clay grapefruit. A little big for his hand, but it would fit comfortably in the grip of a normal man, he knew. The pottery⁷ was thin, so fragile that even he had been warned not to squeeze too tightly, lest he crush it in his fist. The clay felt roughened, pebbled⁸. Hallyne told him that was intentional⁹. “A smooth pot is more apt to slip from a man’s grasp.”  The wildfire oozed¹⁰ slowly toward the lip of the jar when Tyrion tilted¹¹ it to peer inside. The color would be a murky

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