Chaos and panic grips the red keep as the fog of mourning mingles with the fog of uncertainty.

The music is dominant at first, much in the manner of season six episode 10 of Game

Thrones, the wins of winter, the one with the haunting piano music.

This time we've got haunting strings instead, and there's dialogue but it can't be made out

over the music.

It's only been a few hours at most since the bloody murder of Prince J' Harris, but the

fall has just begun.

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The gates to the city are closed. We see guards rounding up servants, a dog given a piece of cloth

to get a scent, and eventually a familiar face in Sir Kristen Cole who carries a look of cloth to get a scent and eventually a familiar face in Sir

Kristen Cole who carries a look of guilt and shame as is proper and in this case

somewhat deserved given his role in the incident or perhaps lack of role is

more accurate. Allison as well believes her relationship with Cole is partly to blame

that this is a punishment for their sins.

This was Damon, not the seven.

The music ends suddenly as we pan to King Egon, lost to grief and fury as he smashes his father's

Valerian models he shouts of traders and villains that I declare war and

curiously fire from the sky he screams I am the king a call back to when

Taiwan Lannister told Joffrey any man who must say I am the king, a call back to when Tywin-Landister told Joffrey, any man who must say, I am the king is no true king at all.

But he didn't say it. He screamed it.

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