Chapter 154

The Sea Dragon Tower was one of Dragonstone’s many towers, built facing the sea, shaped like a slumbering wyrm. Beneath the raven cages were the rooms of the maesters, where correspondence was received and dispatched.

Pylos had once held the post of maester here—a young, learned man sent from Oldtown to aid Stannis. After old Maester Cressen had failed in his attempt to poison the red woman with the Tears of Lys, dying by her hand instead, Pylos had become Stannis’s Grand Maester.

Pylos had departed with Stannis, but his chosen assistant from Storm’s End, a man named Fensen, had remained.