MARTINraised her hand to shade her eyes. When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it, he declared. We ought to have remembered. He had pledged himself to marry a daughter of Walder Frey, but she saw his true bride plain before her now: the sword he had laid on the table.
He had managed to keep that promise for almost a fortnight, miserable every day, until one night he had gone out the window of his bedroom when his brothers were fast asleep. He had known it, but he had not believed. Generations of capering fools in motley have won me the right to dress badly and say any damn thing that comes into my head. He was my father's ward.
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