Opening post by Lady Barbrey Dustin · #1
My maester tells me I raise this too often. My maester is welcome to raise something better.
The question, put plainly: whether a hostage is ever anything but a hostage. I can see a reading where everyone is a little bit right.
There is a version of this where the truth is dull — a bad decision, a bad winter, nobody's grand design — and I have never once heard anybody argue for it.
Anyone who is certain about this has not thought about it long enough.