TMTalisa Maegyr
May I help you, Lady Stark?
TMTalisa Maegyr
I'm sorry, I shouldn't have-
You can't help because a mother makes one for her children to protect them. Only a mother can make them.
TMTalisa Maegyr
You've made them before?
TMTalisa Maegyr
Did they work?
After a fashion. I prayed for my son Bran to survive his fall. Many years before that, one of the boys came down with the pox. Maester Luwin said if he made it through the night, he'd live. But it would be a very long night. So I sat with him all through the darkness, listened to his ragged little breaths, his coughing, his whimpering.
TMTalisa Maegyr
Which boy?
Jon Snow. When my husband brought that baby home from the war, I couldn't bear to look at him, didn't want to see those brown stranger's eyes staring at me. So I prayed to the gods "Take him away, make him die". He got the pox and I knew I was the worst woman who ever lived. A murderer. I'd condemned this poor, innocent child to a horrible death all because I was jealous of his mother, a woman he didn't even know! So I prayed to all Seven Gods "Let the boy live. Let him live and I'll love him. I'll be a mother to him. I'll beg my husband to give him a true name, to call him Stark and be done with it, to make him one of us".
TMTalisa Maegyr
And he lived?
And he lived. And I couldn't keep my promise. And everything that's happened since then, all this horror that's come to my family...it's all because I couldn't love a motherless child.
It took five of you to murder two unarmed squires?
Not murder, Your Grace. Vengeance.
Vengeance? Those boys didn't kill your sons. I saw Harrion die on the battlefield, and Torrhen...
Was strangled by the Kingslayer. They were his kin.
THEY WERE BOYS! Look at them.
Tell your mother to look at them. She killed them as much as I.
My mother had nothing to do with this. This was your treason.
It's treason to free your enemies! In war, you kill your enemies! Did your father not teach you that, boy?!
[Brynden Tully punches Karstark in the face]
Aye. Leave me to the king. He wants to give me a scolding before he sets me free. That's how he deals with treason. Our King in the North. Or should I call him the King Who Lost the North?
Escort Lord Karstark to the dungeon. Hang the rest.
KSKarstark soldier
Mercy, sire! I didn't kill anyone, I only watched for the guards.
This one was only the watcher. Hang him last so he can watch the others die.
KSKarstark soldier
Please! Please don't, they made me do it! They made me! They made me...!
[The prisoners are dragged out; Robb sits at his desk, contemplating what to do about Karstark.]
Word of this can't leave Riverrun. They were Tywin Lannister's nephews; the Lannisters pay their debts - they never stop talking about that.
Would you make me a liar as well as a murderer?
It wouldn't be lying. We'll bury them and remain silent until the war is done.
I'm not fighting for justice if I don't serve justice to murderers in my ranks, no matter how highborn! He has to die.
The Karstarks are Northmen. They won't forgive the killing of their Lord.
TMTalisa Maegyr
Your mother's right. If you do this, the Karstarks will abandon you.
You tended to their wounds, you brought them supper. Now they're dead.
TMTalisa Maegyr
And more boys will keep dying until this war is over! You need Karstark men to end it!
Spare his life, keep him as a hostage.
A hostage. Tell the Karstarks that as long as they remain loyal, he will not be harmed.
[Robb surveys his map, which displays the Stark forces nearly encircled by the Greyjoy and Tyrell/Lannister forces.]
TMTalisa Maegyr
Come to bed.
You were right. the Karstarks are gone. Almost half our forces. Tywin Lannister knows what he needs to do, to make us unravel. Nothing. Only wait.
TMTalisa Maegyr
Don't let him.
What can I do? Attack King's Landing? There's nothing he'd like better. He'd crush us in a day.
TMTalisa Maegyr
You could ride North, take your lands back from the Greyjoys. Wait out the winter.
Winter could last five years. Once my bannermen are home again, sitting by the fire, surrounded by their families, warm and safe, they'll never ride south again. When I gathered my Lords together, we had a purpose, a mission. Now, we're like a band of bickering children!
TMTalisa Maegyr
Give them a new purpose.
TMTalisa Maegyr
I don't know.
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