You are my sister, but I am King, now.
Will you start wearing a crown?
When you question my decisions in front of the other Lords and Ladies, you undermine me!
So I can't question your decisions anymore?!
Of course you can! But-
Joffrey never let anyone question his authority. You think he was a good King?
Do you think I'm Joffrey?
You're as far from Joffrey as anyone I've ever met.
Thank you.
You're good at this, you know.
At what?
At ruling.
No.
You are! You are. They respect you, they really do, but... [Jon smirks] Why are you laughing?
What did Father use to say? "Everything before the word 'but' is horse-shit."
He never said that to me.
No. No, he never cursed in front of his girls.
Because he was trying to protect us. He never wanted us to see how dirty the world really is, but... Father couldn't protect me, and neither could you. So stop trying.
All right. I'll stop trying to protect you, and you stop trying to undermine me.
I'm not trying to undermine you! You have to be smarter than Father. You need to be smarter than Robb. I loved them, I miss them both, but they made stupid mistakes, and they lost their heads for it!
And how should I be smarter? By listening to you?
Would that be so terrible?
[Maester Wolkan approaches]
A raven from King's Landing, Your Grace.
[Wolkan bows and leaves as Jon unrolls the scroll]
"Cersei of House Lannister, First of Her Name, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Protector of the Seven Kingdoms..."
What does she want?
"Come to King's Landing. Bend the knee, or suffer the fate of all traitors."
You've been so consumed with the enemy to the north that you've forgotten about the one to the south.
I'm concerned with the Night King because I've seen him. And, believe me, you'd think of little else if you had, too.
We still have a Wall between us and the Night King; there's nothing between us and Cersei.
There's a thousand miles between us and Cersei. Winter is here, the Lannisters are a southern army. They've never ranged this far North.
You're the military man but I know her. If you're her enemy, she'll never stop until she's destroyed you. Everyone who's ever crossed her, she's found a way to murder.
You almost sound as if you admire her.
I learned a great deal from her.
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