It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you Ned what good is it to wear a crown
The ground was so far below him he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled around him but he could feel how fast he was falling and he knew what was waiting for him down there. Even in dreams you could not fall forever. He would wake up in the instant before he hit the ground he knew. You always woke in the instant before you hit the ground.
One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When hed been younger Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame and somehow the time had never been quite right.