Welcome to Litsy!

Ned is prisoner without so much as a window to count the passing days. He imagines a conversation with Robert where he criticizes Ned‘s honor, he thinks against of his sister Lyanna & his promise.
Varys comes with wine & news of Arya (who escaped) & Sansa(still betrothed). & he begs Ned to recant & proclaim Joff as the true heir, reminding Ned of the Lannisters bloodthirsty ways.

King Robert returns from the hunt gravely injured (by a boar, or treason) & leaves Ned to rule until Joff is of age.

At the end of the chapter Littlefinger tells Ned “you wear you honor like a suit of armor, you think it‘s protecting you but it‘s weighing you down”
There are even more examples of this here, as he declines to tell Robert the truth of Joff‘s paternity & gives up advantage over Cersei dispute Renly‘s protests.

Ned is back to work while King Robert is out hunting. He hears tales from townsfolk that they were attacked by raiders -but not raiders- Lannister men in disguise lead by The Mountain. Ned call for justice against the Mountain & sends men after them. Varys critiques Ned for not sending the young Ser Loras who bested the Mountain at the tourney and Ser Ilyn.

Ned‘s been asleep for nearly a week after his injury. He worries for his daughters. Jaime has fled the city. Robert & Cersei come to see Ned. Ned sticks to the story about Catelyn seizing Tyrion under his command. Cersei tries to get under his skin so he spills the real reason he was at the brothel. Robert commands that Ned remain the Hand, & gives him no choice by saying if Ned doesn‘t do it, it will be Jaime.

We start in a brothel, once again Littlefinger tries to get under Ned‘s skin. Ned poses the question of just how my bastards Robert has sired. Littlefinger says many including the ones Cersei killed. On the way to the castle they are confronted by Jaime Lannister & soldiers over Tyrion‘s detainment. Ned takes responsibility for Cat‘s actions. Jaime spares Ned but he orders the soldiers kill Ned‘s men & Ned gets a broken leg in the fight.

Ned confronts Robert about his plot to kill Dany & the “dragonspawn” in her belly. “Have the years unmanned you so that you tremble at the shadows of an unborn child?” After a heated argument with the king and his advisers, Ned quits & feels it may be best to make a quick exit because of what he‘s just done -& what Catelyn has done. But the mysteries still eat at him.

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A longer than usual chapter, let me know what stood out to you!
some plots coming together, some just winding up ⬇️

Upcoming tourney creates problems.
Ned reads the book of lineages Jon Arryn had, tries to retrace his steps. Leading to an armorer‘s apprentice, Gendry, who he takes for a king‘s bastard, his apprentice fee was paid by a mysterious lord

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Eddard is investigating the death of the former Hand (Catelyn‘s sister‘s husband, Lord Arryn). Ned asks for a book that Lord Arryn requested hoping for a clue. Littlefinger advises that there are many spies to lookout for.

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