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I didn’t realise there was mentions of the piebald prince story this early on in the series but it makes sense (ch 10)

what I will always hold in my heart is the moment when [patience] turned back, to stamp her foot at verity-as-dragon and tell him to hurry up and get those damned ships out of her harbour.

she is so funny she’s so real (that’s my queen) (kettricken is also my queen) (kettricken patience get married? two queens?)

11.11
the folk of the 6 duchies feared them not. children ran out from huts and cottages, to point overhead at the jewelled passing of the creatures. when the dragons slept on the beaches and in the pastures, the people came out to walk among them fearlessly, to touch with their own hands these jewel-glittering creatures.

the children of the six duchies finally experiencing hope and joy thanks to verity 🥹

she took a breath, caught it, then breathed the word. ‘elderling.’ then she threw both helm and pike into the air with a whoop, and rushed forward to embrace kettricken, crying, ‘an elderling! I knew it, I knew it, I knew they would come back!’

patience you are so precious to me please never die
and the fact she was fighting on the wall 😭 bless her soul

‘if you kill me, you will burn yourself. you will lose your own skill if you kill me with it.’
I had thought of that. I had never much enjoyed being skilled. I would rather far be witted than skilled. it would be no loss.
as I had longed to do for so long, I loosed my skill upon [regal].

YES GET THAT WEASEL FITZ BE FREE BE WOLF BOY

‘if you kill me, you will burn yourself. you will lose your own skill if you kill me with it.’
I had thought of that. I had never much enjoyed being skilled. I would rather far be witted than skilled. it would be no loss.
as I had longed to do for so long, I loosed my skill upon [regal].

YES GET THAT WEASEL FITZ BE FREE BE WOLF BOY

11.11
‘and better care of yourself than I did. I did love you, you know,’ he said brusquely. ‘despite all I’ve done to you, I loved you.’
… I told him, ‘I never doubted it. never doubt I loved you’.
I don’t think I shall ever forget that final smile over his shoulder. his eyes went a last time to his queen. he pressed his hands firmly to the dragon’s chiselled head. he watched her as he went.

11.11
‘I am a minstrel. I know more about lying than you will ever discover. and minstrels know that sometimes lies are what a man needs most.’

yeah well guess what starling when I get you I won’t be lying about it I’ll be the minstrel singing from the rooftops about how I STRANGLED YOU

11.11
STARLING WHEN I GET YOU. WHEN I GET YOU STARLING. FITZ IS /GRIEVING/ he JUST found out that his FATHER FIGURE is with the mother of his CHILD the woman he considered the LOVE of his LIFE and you kiss him. you manipulate him into sleeping with you. ‘don’t make this complicated. stop thinking, just for a while.’
GTFO OF FITZ’ BED AND LET HIM PROCESS AND HEAL BEFORE FLINGING YOURSELF AT HIM FFS
god.

11.11
‘fitzchivalry, are you all right?’ there was concern in verity’s voice.
‘of course not,’ I told them both. ‘of course not.’
I walked away from the dragon.

robin, birrich, I fear you have irreversibly hurt my fitz