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ing blue steel, castle-forged and double-edged, with a leather grip and a lion's-head pommel in gold. Around him, the reserve assembled; a huge force, half mounted and half foot, five thousand strong. Those, Ser Jorah said, had likely come from the Shadow Lands beyond Asshai. When Lysa's master-at-arms offered Brorm a similar shield, the sellsword spat and waved it away.

Very well, a trial you shall have. My lord, he said, King Robert is gone. And of late he had often found himself dreaming of snow, of the deep quiet of the wolfswood at night. Where the pass shrank to a narrow defile scarce wide enough for four men to ride abreast, twin watchtowers