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THE SOILED KNIGHT
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The night was unseasonably cool, even for autumn. A brisk wet wind was swirling1 down the alleys3, stirring up the day’s dust. A north wind, and full of chill. Ser Arys Oakheart pulled up his hood4 to cover his face. It would not do for him to be recognized. A fortnight past, a trader had been butchered in the shadow city, a harmless man who’d come to Dorne for fruit and found death instead of dates. His only crime was being from King’s Landing.
The mob would find a sterner foe5 in me. He would almost have welcomed an attack. His hand drifted down to brush lightly over the hilt on the longsword that hung half-hidden amongst the folds of his layered linen6 robes, the outer with its turquoise7 stripes and rows of golden suns, and the lighter8 orange one beneath. The Dornish garb9 was comfortable, but his father would have been aghast had he lived to see his son so dressed. He was a man of the Reach, and the Dornish were his ancient foes10, as the tapestries11 at Old Oak bore witness. Arys only had to close his eyes to see them still. Lord Edgerran the Open-Handed, seated in splendor12 with the heads of a hundred Dornishmen piled round his feet. The Three Leaves in the Prince’s Pass, pierced by Dornish spears, Alester sounding his warhorn with his last breath. Ser Olyvar the Green Oak all in white, dying at the side of the Young Dragon. Dorne is no fit place for any Oakheart.
Even before Prince Oberyn had died, the
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bastard
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