Author: lyannastarks

icesalamander:

 Huevember – Day 26.

“Thirty yards from shore, three black swans were gliding over the water, so serene … no one had told them that war had come, and they cared nothing for burning towns and butchered men. She stared at them with yearning. Part of her wanted to be a swan. The other part wanted to eat one.”

( A Clash of Kings – Arya V )

twoiafart:

Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History)
Queen Alysanne Targaryen women’s court – Art by Doug Wheatley

Queen Alysanne also wished to listen to the women of the North. When Lord Burley explained that there were no women on the Wall, she persisted… until finally, with great reluctance, he had her escorted to a village south of the Wall that the black brothers called Mole’s Town. She would find women there, his lordship said, though most of them would be harlots. The men of the Night’s Watch took no wives, he explained, but they remained men all the same, and some felt certain needs. Queen Alysanne said she did not care, and so it came to pass that she held her women’s court amongst the whores and strumpets of Mole’s Town… and there heard certain tales that would change the Seven Kingdoms forever.

I got my copy of Fire and Blood just in time for my “break”— where I have 10 hours of lecture to watch, textbook chapters to read, and family engagments to attend 🙃 Feel free to @ me with highlights relevant to my interests until I finally get a chance to read it myself

sansarya:

Canon Arya Stark Appreciation Week – Day Four:

Foreshadowing related to Arya

It took her more than an hour to find the low narrow window that slanted down to the dungeon where the monsters waited… This time the monsters did not frighten her. They seemed almost old friends. Arya held the candle over her head. With each step she took; the shadows moved against the walls, as if they were turning to watch her pass. “Dragons,” she whispered.