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"Will it come to war between them?" asked the maester.


"Ironborn must not spill the blood of ironborn."

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"A pious sentiment, Damphair," said Goodbrother, "but not one that your brother shares. He had Sawane Botley drowned for
saying that the Seastone Chair by rights belonged to Theon."


"If he was drowned, no blood was shed," said Aeron.


The maester and the lord exchanged a look. "I must send word to Pyke, and soon," said Gorold Goodbrother. "Damphair, I
would have your counsel. What shall it be, homage or defiance"


Aeron tugged his beard, and thought. / have seen the storm, and its name is Euron Crow's Eye. "For now, send only silence,"
he told the lord. "I must pray on this."


"Pray all you wish," the maester said, "it does not change the law. Theon is the rightful heir, and Asha next."


"Silence!" Aeron roared. "Too long have the ironborn listened to you chain-neck maesters prating of the green lands and their
laws. It is time we listened to the sea again. It is time we listened to the voice of god." His own , voice rang in that smoky hall,
so full of


power than neither Gorold Goodbrother nor his maester dared a reply. The Drowned God is with me, Aeron thought. He has
shown me the way.


Goodbrother offered him the comforts of the castle for the night, but the priest declined. He seldom slept beneath a castle
roof, and never so far from the sea. "Comforts I shall know, in the Drowned God's watery halls beneath the waves. We are
born to suffer, that our sufferings might make us


strong. All that I require is a fresh horse to carry me to Pebbleton."


That Goodbrother was pleased to provide. He sent his son Greydon as well, to show the priest the shortest way through the
hills down to the sea. Dawn was still an hour off when they set forth, but their mounts were hardy and sure-footed, and they
made good time despite the darkness. Aeron closed his eyes and said a silent prayer, and after a while began to drowse in