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[therainbowking]

[All the video shows is the skin of someone's palm. There can be tapping noises heard from the Forge, however, and soon enough the screen is uncovered to show a handsome young man, staring curiously at the device.]

This is certainly not what I expected from death. [He glances around the room, then, and shrugs.]It's much better than I expected, to

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vidya

[oathbroken]

[Oh for.]

Lord Renly Baratheon. And here I'd taken you to be a corpse.

vidya

[therainbowking]

I had thought the same, Ser Jaime. It would appear to be untrue.

vidya

[oathbroken]

Ah, someone ought to tell that knight of yours. At least one of them, in any case.

vidya

[therainbowking]

I expect if he were here, he would have announced himself by now.

Vidya

[oathbroken]

True enough that your colorfully attired guardians are not here. In fact, last I'd heard, Loras had taken up the white cloak under the careful supervision of... me.

Of course, there is also that oversized woman of yours. Or does she not count as a knight in your eyes?

Vidya

[therainbowking]

[This is one of the rare times you will see Renly at a bit of a loss for words! Enjoy it, Jaime. He stops blinking soon enough, but this is not exactly the smart reply he was hoping for.]

...Did he. I expect his father was involved.

Brienne? Why should she not? I knighted her myself, though it was rather odd to do so.

Vidya

[oathbroken]

Yes. A boy's father is generally involved in these sorts of decisions. Though, in his case, consider it a matter of practicality. As a second son, he has no claim to Highgarden. And his... king. Had fallen. His sister traded one husband who wouldn't bed her for another who, as it turned out, hadn't the chance to do so. Why not follow suit and make a gelding of himself?

He wasn't like to marry, after all.

As for Brienne, one would think a man might consider his own murderer to have fallen from grace.

[He pauses for a moment, and presses his lips together.]

That is what they say of her, Renly. That she murdered her king. The Knight of Flowers nearly killed her when he found her holding your corpse.

But you know and I know differently, don't we.

vidya

[therainbowking]

[There's a soft annoyed sigh.] Loras is not a boy. [And another pause.] I see.

[He's just going to ignore all those sly references there. Why not? He was good enough at it in King's Landing, it shouldn't be too hard to do the same here.]

She did not. She was helping arm me for battle, Lady Stark can attest to it. It was--a shadow, however ridiculous that may sound.

vidya

[oathbroken]

I know it. That woman would have slit her own throat before she did you harm.

And though she may be many things, I don't take her for a liar.

vidya

[therainbowking]

Nor do I. Brienne is a good woman.

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[oathbroken]

Brienne is a mule with teats, but she's honorable. And she's loyal.

[I trusted her word well enough to send her off with my Valyrian steel blade. Not that I'd any use for it, then.]

vidya

[therainbowking]

[Have a bit of a Look, Jaime.] She is, and she is one of my knights, ser. Give her the respect she deserves.

vidya

[oathbroken]

[He makes a little tching sound with his tongue.]

Such chivalry, Lord Renly. It's like to charm the skirts off any lady, not that it'd do them any good with you.

Still, I expect that attitude is what made the maid of Tarth so anxious to get into your breeches.

vidya

[therainbowking]

[Lalala, he's going to be ignoring the first bit of that. Yep.]

...I -- ..Brienne? Really?

vidya

[oathbroken]

I'd ask how you failed to notice, but you were bound to blind where she was concerned.

Considering both her teats and her lack of aesthetic appeal.

vidya

[therainbowking]

[This is an annoyed sigh.]

Ah, and you are charming as ever, Kingslayer.