A Song of Ice and Fire - A Chapter a day discussion

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1. Tyrion is informed by Lancel that Cersei wants to send Tommen away to Rosby, a nearby town, in the guise as a son of a hedge knight, for his safety. Part of the reason is to keep him away from his uncle, lol. Tyrion is disturbed because Varys didn’t say anything to him at all about this. Lancel wants to take part in commanding the next battle. Perhaps that mob made him want to take action.

2. There’s your answer, Clara: Tyrion lights a candle to the Stranger for himself. It makes me feel good knowing someone still prays to the Stranger. Plus it says something about Tyrion to even be praying at all. He doesn’t seem the religious type. Maybe he’s getting desperate. I laughed when he tells the Warrior to watch over Jaime, “...you bloody bastard, he’s one of yours.”

3. Tyrion plots to have the gold cloaks escort Tommen to Rosby instead of Lord Gyles, deciding Cersei was wise in this, at least. In case Stannis wins King’s Landing and executes Joffrey, at least Tommen will be safe. Lol, Bronn offers to take Tommen himself but Tyrion needs him here, and he doesn’t trust him with Tommen anyway. Tyrion offers Ser Jacelyn Bywater a lordship for doing this, and if he has to kill anyone, don’t do it in front of Tommen; he’s tenderhearted. Lol, Bronn asks if he’s certain Tommen is a Lannister.

4. Tyrion goes to see Shae again, but this time he’s too impatient to go through Chataya’s first. Oops! At the manse a singer is there to entertain Shae. You can tell Tyrion is not pleased but pretends to be. The singer is named Symon Silver Tongue. Tyrion chastises him, saying he’s a fool to have called him the Hand. Now he knows Tyrion’s secret and he can’t have him blabbering. The singer promises he’ll tell no one. I almost expected Tyrion to have his guards kill the man, but of course he doesn’t. That would be too cruel of him. He just leaves the man alone and goes to do his thing with Shae. She says she has Symon around to cheer her on the nights Tyrion doesn’t come, hmm... Sounds like she’s cheating on him.

5. Afterward, Shae announces Varys is here to see him and both are surprised she could tell it’s him even through his begging brother’s get-up. Shae says whores are good at seeing the man underneath the clothing or else they end up dead. Interesting.

6. Varys looks in pain, like he has bad news. He tells Tyrion Ser Cortnay Penrose is dead and Stannis has Storm’s End now. This is awful news to Tyrion; he’d hoped Stannis would be at it with Storm’s End for a while. This is too soon.

7. Shae is either young, stupid, or knows something we don’t, but for some reason she is not afraid that Stannis is coming to take King’s Landing. Tyrion says she should be. Besides, Stannis hates whores. Shae is screwed if Stannis wins, but the girl just doesn’t seem to care. Tyrion calls Shae “the Hand’s lady” but she corrects him. Strange she says she would be his lady if he wants. She could even give him sons, interesting, vowing she’d never shame him. But the fact that he loves her already shames him. Awe. Shae tells him to kill Cersei if she scares him, wtf...lol, it’s not that easy. And besides, he knows what it means to be a kinslayer. That’s an unspeakable crime to gods and men. And his father and brother still love Cersei, anyway. She points out he’s not scared of Stannis or Robb. He says against them he has the power of House Lannister at his back, but not if he has to face House Lannister itself; then he’s screwed.

8. Tyrion doesn’t feel Shae is safe at the manse anymore but thinks he can sneak her into the castle as a kitchen servant. She’d be much safer there. But when Shae flirts with him, playing with him and saying he could fuck his kitchen wench he gets annoyed. This girl isn’t taking any of this seriously. He remembers she’s young. I think she doesn’t want to downgrade from her gems and silks to roughspun servant clothes. She likes living in the lap of luxury. Shae then explains her father made her scour pots and fucked her, so she ran away. I forgot that, unless it’s a lie. I wouldn’t be surprised with her.

9. When Shae makes fun of Tyrion, that Lord Tywin would spank him if he’s caught with her, Tyrion slaps her and yells at her not to mock him. Wow...she hit a nerve! Her voice drops as she apologizes and Tyrion feels bad for hitting her. He’s turning into Cersei. Now he apologizes and tells her about Tysha. I thought he told her this before. He promises after they finish off Stannis he’ll get her another manse and silk dresses and stuff. Interesting he can’t read her expression. She seems to make a big deal about her hands being chafed afterwards but Tyrion doesn’t care about that. Like really. The girl clearly doesn’t want to be a servant. Spoiled little brat. Perhaps she’s worried her chafed hands will bother future customers.

10. As he leaves the manse he asks himself why he told her about Tysha, awe. He also hates that he cannot read her expression. It disturbs me too. He wonders how she could ever love him after hearing his confession and catches himself. She’s a whore, of course she doesn’t love him; she only loves the gold and jewels. Exactly.

11. Varys tells Tyrion he’ll put Shae in the kitchens but warns there’s lots of spies in that part of the castle and they’ll want to know all about Shae’s past so she’ll have to lie a lotv and keep track of her story. Also, she’s so pretty she’s sure to get harassed. Tyrion says he’d rather her be fondled than stabbled, lol. I guess the time for jealousy is over now for Tyrion.

12. Varys gives a better idea for Tyrion: make Shae Lollys’s maidservant. The girl needs one since the last one was caught stealing from her. Also Cersei thinks Lady Tanda and Lollys are reproachful so she’s not likely to ever visit them. Lol, Varys informs Tyrion there is a hidden door to the Hand’s bedchambers, so he can slip Shae in whenever he wants. This annoys Tyrion more than it shocks him, lol.

13. According to Varys’s little birds, Penrose threw himself out of a tower. Pushed out, more likely. Tyrion refuses to believe it. Varys sounds like he doesn’t either. Tyrion asks what Varys really thinks happened and Varys says magic. Tyrion obviously doesn’t believe in that stuff, but Varys does without a doubt. Varys reveals how he was cut. He was a mummer boy and was bought by a sorcerer who needed his male parts to perform a spell. He didn’t even bother to dull Varys’s senses and I can’t imagine how horrible that would be. The flames turned blue and a voice spoke back in words Varys didn’t understand. The man threw Varys out soon after, no longer needing him. He became a master of whispers, but every night he remembers the voice in the flames over everything else that happened. Ever since that day Varys hates magic and all who practice it. If Stannis is practicing magic Varys wants him dead. After some silence Tyrion apologizes for what happened but Varys says Tyrion doesn’t believe him. I wonder if Tyrion really did. I believed him the first time I read it, but now I’m not so gullible. He could be telling the truth or he could be lying, but I don’t see the point of this lie. I think Tyrion doubts the magic part of the tale, but he does say he believes there once were dragons; he’s seen the skulls, after all. Varys says lets hope that’s the worst thing he ever sees. Interesting.

14. Doran Martell refuses to attack the Stormlands unless they attack him first so Tyrion won’t get any help from Dorne. Varys says the Oakheart and Rowan banners have been seen north of the Mander, but no word yet from Littlefinger. I wonder what they’re planning?

15. Suddenly Tyrion laughs and Varys asks why is he doing that. He answers because all these people living in King’s Landing have heroes that are either dead or gone from the city and the only person that stands between them and Stannis is him, the one they hate; the evil, twisted little monkey demon, lol. He probably hopes they’ll hear him, too.

1-So, Cersei is planning to send Tommen away, and darken his hair so he’d pretend to be the son of a hedge knight. Lance lis telling Tyrion all this, because Varys didn’t know. Or at least, he didn’t tell Tyrion about it. She planned to do this because she feared the mob and Tyrion. Lancel asked to command in battle at some point. I forgot about a lot of these things.

2-Tyrion went the the Sept, and asked the Warrior to take care of Jaime, and put a light to the Starnger, for himself. And I thought all along no one prayed to the Stranger and all feared them. Clearly I didn’t remeber this, and it was curious as well.

3-Bronn couldn’t read, I forgot that too. Tyrion is sending a letter to Bywater, to see safe Tommen to Rosby, and he would be lord after. He thought it was a good idea this one Cersei had. Bronn asked why not him, and Tyrion replied he needed him there with him. Of course, he trusted more Bywater with his newhew than Bronn, who sells his sword. He wanted no killing in front of Tommen, he was soft after all. When Bronn asked him if he was certain Tommen is a Lannister, Tyrion answered he was only certain of Winter and death. Very, very interesting.

4-The curfew was still going on, and not so much people were being killed, and there was a relative peace in the city. But of course, people cursed Tyrion for this. I just couldn’t do it, he’s doing so much for them but they can’t see it. It must be really frustrating.

5-While he was riding alone to see Shae, he looked behind, thinking Cersei sent someone after him. Maybe he thought she planned more than just to buy sellswords for her.

6-When he arrived a Singer was there, Symon Silver Tongue. TYrion didn’t like him, and made him feel pretty bad, telling him he should have pretended he didn’t know the Hand of the King was there. He told the singer he should keep his mouth shut. But Shae liked him, so he said the singer could stay. How did he got there though?

7-Shae told Tyrion the begging brother behind him, Varys, wanted to see him. Varys looked surprised she knew who he was, but she said she needed to, being a whore. Varys told Tyrion about Penrose being death, he threw himself out of a tower. So, the doors of Storm’s End opened for Stannis. Tyrion knew he would go to King’s Landing next. I wonder how many people believed Penrose killed himself, when he was so reluctant to open the doors.

8-Tyrion knew Shae wouldn’t be safe there. She said she could be his lady and she would never shame him. He thought his love for her shamed him enough. Ouch, but true though, not the first time he loved a whore after all. Tyrion told her he was afraid of Cersei, and Shae said he should kill her. I forgot about that. Tyrion said he wouldn’t, it was ill luck and Tywin and Jaime loved her. I am guessing he would feel most sorry for Jaime, since he cares about his brother that much.

9-He thought he could get her to work in the kitchens, which she didn’t like at all. It was interesting she said her father made her work in the kitchen and she left, but she told Tyrion her father made her his whore. Besides, he’s trying to keep her safe, who cares if she has to wash dishes, shewould be alive!

10-She mocked him, so he hit her. He was sorry, and said they were both wrong. It really hurt him she mocked him. He wondered if he was turning into Cersei. Please don’t, one is enough. He told Shae about Tysha, and said it would be imposible for her to be his lady. She’s a whore.

11-He rode back with Varys, and while doing so he thought she would not love him after he told her the story, but thought again, she only loves his gold. Varys said she could be Lady Tanda’s maidservant, and it would be easier since in the kitchens she would have to lie all the time, and she would draw attention. Plus, Varys would be able to get her to Tyrion’s chambers. He didn’t know he could Access his won chamber, and he didn’t like that at all of course. I wonder if Varys knows all the passages in that castle.

12-While they were talking about Penrose killing himself, Varys asked Tyrion if he believed in old powers. Fort he way he answered I took he didn’t. Varys’s story was sad and creepy about the same time, but more creepy than sad. I forgot he was a good thief. Varys said he hated magic, and would kill Stannis if he used it. Maybe he heard of Melisandre? Tyrion said he was sorry, but Varys could tell he didn’t believe him.

13-There was no word of Tywin or Littlefinger. I honestly forgot what happened to Littlefinger in that trip.

14-The chapter ends with Tyrion laughing about the people behind their Windows, he was the only thing that stood between they and chaos. I guess he gets tired too of being hated over something he was trying to do well.

About your point 2, yes! I totally forgot Tyrion prayed to him, at least once. But not a lot of people do it, as far as I can remember. It was really curious too.

About your point 4, it did sound like she was cheating. I mean, she's a whore after all. And even in my first read, I never thought she loved Tyrion. She could have liked him and have a laugh, but in my opinion she doesn't love him.

In your point 7, I didn't catch up she was not afraid. I mean, the Lannisters fear Stannis the most, so all should fear him. I wonder if she knows something, and what it could be.

About your point 9, maybe you got confused because of the show. I remember Tyrion told both Shae and Bronn about Tysha, but I don't remember in which season.

About your point 13, I don't think Varys was lying. I mean, like you, I don't see why he would lie about, it's not like he wins something for telling the story. At least I don't see his win, if he has one.