Hello and welcome to the Nauticast podcast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through a song of ice and fire.

I'm one of your hosts Emmett, also known as Por Quentin.

And I'm your other host, Manu, also known as Manucleur Bomb.

And welcome to the 256 episode of the Nauticast titled The Silent Partner,

an analysis of a Feast for Crows, Jamie 3, in which Jamie's relationship with Circe has gotten so bad

that hanging out with the grim Reaper on a road trip to the evil hotel from the Shining

qualifies as a step up.

Man, how bad are the vibes at King's Landing?

You know it's bad when Heron Hall qualifies as a vacation.

When you have to get away by going to Heron Hall.

So our spoiler warning is, as always, prepared to be spoiled for all five A Song of Ice and Fire novels,

the three Dunkin' Egg novellas, any histories, any interviews, any winds of winter sample chapters, as well as

Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, and a Night of the Seven Kingdoms, the TV shows, anything

and everything.

So, welcome back to Westeros, from Westeros.

We've been taking time away from our regularly

scheduled coverage of A Feast for Crows within a Song of Ice and Fire to cover

Season 1 of Duncan Egg, aka A Night of the Seven Kingdoms, aka Akatsk, over on HBO.

So check out our episodes on season one of the show if you haven't already. They're up wherever

you listen to our podcast, as well as on our Patreon. So check those out. Catch up if you haven't. We had a great time covering season one, and we will have a great time very soon covering season three of House of the Dragon, barely a break in between the TV shows here in 2026. Our cup runneth over for West Dorothy shows. But in between, we're going to be back on A Feast for Crows. This is what we do regularly. If you're just joining us for the first time after listening to our Dunkin' Egg episodes, we're going through a Song of Ice and Fire, the five published books of Asong of Bison Fire. Right now, we're going through a book four, A Feast for Crows. We're about 60% or so of the way through that book. And we go chapter by chapter, one episode per chapter, this time we're covering Jamie's third chapter in the book. We got some great material coming up in The Feast for Crows, more from Jamie, more from Cersia, more from Briean, all our favorites. So definitely sticking around and listening to our ongoing coverage we our schedule is that

we do a song of ice and fire chapter episode once every two weeks every other week we do one of

these episodes for everybody and then on the off weeks one out of every four weeks we take off

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