Chapter 112

The Red Keep was built of pale red stone and stood upon Aegon’s High Hill, the heart of all King’s Landing.

Thick walls surrounded the castle, with countless shelters and crenellations from which archers could shoot. Heavy stone parapets, more than four feet high, firmly protected the battlements.

In the original story, Eddard Stark’s head was mounted on an iron spike along those very battlements, and then Sansa was forced by Joffrey to come and “admire” it…