Chapter 300

Drogo looked south again and saw, across from Dragonstone, the city of King’s Landing. The poor were packed tight, standing in long lines as the City Watch in red cloaks handed out grain.

There he saw Tommen Baratheon wearing a stag crown, Tywin Lannister with a stern expression, an old man in plain gray clothes, and a slick, powdered bald man—talking together as if they were the closest of allies.

“Long live the king… long live the king!”