Opening post by Lady Alys Karstark · #1
This is the part I got wrong twice. This will not help anybody take a seat, and I am posting it anyway. Winter nights are long and the board is quiet.
The question, put plainly: whether the old gods are listening. My maester has a theory. My maester has fourteen theories.
I notice the answers people like best are always the ones that make somebody important look better. That is not proof of anything, but it is a pattern.
That is the whole of the lesson, and it was dear. That lesson cost me a keep.