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On the last night of her imprisonment1, the queen could not sleep. Each time she closed her eyes, her head filled with forebodings and fantasies of the morrow. I will have guards, she told herself. They will keep the crowds away. No one will be allowed to touch me. The High Sparrow had promised her that much.
Even so, she was afraid. On the day Myrcella sailed for Dorne, the day of the bread riots, gold cloaks had been posted all along the route of the procession, but the mob had broken through their lines to tear the old fat High Septon into pieces and rape3 Lollys Stokeworth half a hundred times. And if that pale soft stupid creature could incite4 the animals when fully5 clothed, how much more lust6 would a queen inspire?
Cersei paced her cell, restless as the caged lions that had lived in the bowels7 of Casterly Rock when she was a girl, a legacy8 of her grandfather’s time. She and Jaime used to dare each other to climb into their cage, and once she worked up enough courage to slip her hand between two bars and touch one of the great tawny9 beasts. She was always bolder than her brother. The lion had turned his head to stare at her with huge golden eyes. Then he licked her fingers. His tongue was as rough as a rasp, but even so she would not pull her hand back, not until Jaime took her by the shoulders and yanked her away from the cage.
“Your turn,” she told him afterward10. “Pull his mane, I dare you.” He never did. I should have had the sword, not him.
Barefoot and shivering she paced, a thin blanket draped about her shoulders. She was anxious for the day to come. By evening it would all be done. A little walk and I’ll be home, I’ll be back with Tommen, in my own
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doomed
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bleached
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blazoned
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v.广布( blazon的过去式和过去分词 );宣布;夸示;装饰 | |
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pointed
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渴望,切盼,向往( yearn的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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羽毛( plume的名词复数 ); 羽毛饰; 羽毛状物; 升上空中的羽状物 | |
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