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Your dark radiance blackens even sunlight.

May the Seven bear witness to our solemn and bloody offering. May they peer inside our mortal hearts and find the truth. May the Warrior grant victory to the innocent and reveal the guilty in their falseness. May death sustain life.

May the Seven bear witness to our solemn and bloody offering. May they peer inside our mortal hearts and find the truth. May the Warrior grant victory to the innocent and reveal the guilty in their falseness. May death sustain life.

Six knights, Dunk thought. They might as well have told him to find six thousand. He had no brothers, no cousins, no old comrades who had stood beside him in battle. Why would six strangers risk their own lives to defend a hedge knight against two royal princelings? “Your Graces, my lords,” he said, “what if no one will take my part?” Maekar Targaryen looked down on him coldly. “If a cause is just, good men will fight for it. If you can find no champions, ser, it will be because you are guilty. Could anything be more plain?”