There was that one... oh, what was her name? That common girl of yours? Becca, with the great big tits you could bury your face in?
Bessie. She was one of yours.
Bessie! Thank the gods for Bessie, and her tits! Yours was, uh... Aleena? No, you told me once. Uh... Meryl? Your bastard's mother?
[grimaces] Wylla.
That's it. She must have been a rare wench to make Lord Eddard Stark forget his honour. You never told me what she looked like.
Nor will I.
We were at war. None of us knew if we were gonna go back home again. You're too hard on yourself. You always have been. I swear, if I weren't your king, you'd have hit me already.
The worst thing about your coronation, I'll never get to hit you again.
Trust me, that's not the worst thing. [pulls out a folded slip of paper from his coat] There was a rider in the night.
[opens the note and reads it] Daenerys Targaryen has wed some Dothraki horselord. What of it? Should we send her a wedding gift?
A knife, perhaps. A good, sharp one, and a bold man to wield it.
She's little more than a child.
Soon enough, that child will spread her legs and start breeding.
Tell me we're not speaking of this.
Oh, it's unspeakable to you? What her father did to your family, that was unspeakable! What Rhaegar Targaryen did to your sister, the woman I loved! I'll kill every Targaryen I get my hands on!
But you can't get your hands on this one, can you?
This Khal Drogo, it's said he has a hundred thousand men in his horde.
Even a million Dothraki are no threat to the realm, as long as they remain on the other side of the Narrow Sea. They have no ships, Robert!
There are still those in the Seven Kingdoms who call me 'Usurper'. If a Targaryen boy crosses with a Dothraki horde at his back, the scum will join him!
He will not cross! And if by chance he does, we'll throw him back into the sea!
There's a war coming, Ned. I don't know when, I don't know who we'll be fighting... but it's coming.
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