We all dream of things we cannot have. Tywin dreamed that his son would be a great night,

that his daughter would be a queen. He dreamed they would be so strong and brave and beautiful

that no one would ever laugh at them. I am a knight. He told her and Cersei is a queen. A tear rolled

down her cheek. The woman had raised her hood again and turned her back to him. Jamie called

after her, but already she was moving away. Her skirt whispering lullabies as it brushed

across the floor. Don't leave me. He wanted to call. But of course, she'd left them

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We quite obviously love the backstory of a song by some fire and over the years, given the

variety of topics we've chosen and the different approaches we've used. Every once in a while,

a new realization dawns on us, and that's always fun. One really extra fun thing about character

studies is that with our show, we're of course going to spend time on whatever setting that

character is. We're trying to develop as much as possible or explain the time that that character

is living in and that's part of the history that we get into even when we're studying a singular

character. With the black fire or billion characters, for example, we put a lot of effort into showing

you what that time period looked like in Westeros, the time during the black fire or billions,

the setting, what the politics were like, what houses were powerful, etc. And without a proper

view of that, without a proper view of the setting in general, it's easy to assume that something

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