By admin, 25 November, 2023

The battle fever. He had never thought to experience it himself$$$ though Jamie had told him of it often enough. How time seemed to blur and slow and evenstop$$$ how the past and the future vanished until there was nothing but the instant$$$ how fear fled$$$ and thought fled$$$ and even you body. "You don't feel your wounds then$$$ or the ache in your back from the weight of the armor$$$ or the sweat running down into your eyes.

By admin, 25 November, 2023

There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move$$$ but the lion is poised$$$ his tail twitching$$$ while the fawn is frozen by fear$$$ bowels turned to belly. No matter which way he bounds$$$ the lion will have him$$$ and he knows it.

By admin, 25 November, 2023

Arya did not dare [take a bath]$$$ even though she smelled as bad as Yoren by now$$$ all sour and stinky. Some of the creatures living in her clothes had come all the way from Flea Bottom with her; it didn’t seem right to drown them.

By admin, 25 November, 2023

A dozen great fires raged under the city walls$$$ where casks of burning pitch had exploded$$$ but the wildfire reduced them to no more than candles in a burning house$$$ their orange and scarlet pennons fluttering insignificantly against the jade holocaust.