❝ you may be a lannister, but you not like the others. ❞ the lion is an athirst, felonious creature, borne of a continuance relic, & most significantly, the voracity for more. hegemony mutilates even the most innocuous individuals, all kosher. cloyed ichor & granular saccharine ; it is a stirring piquancy, a taste of merriment & mirth once those afflicted by the ire of another licks it, there is no point of return. a sullen look is cast at her garments : soiled by russet dust, by a languorous lethargy & by the soot of criminality. queen margaery has never occurred to another so arraigned, so triturated beneath the queen mother’s obsidian foot. clarke is different, though. a lion to the marrow of bone, soured by the same edacious claws ; yet, she is softer than the queen mother. she presents herself before the former queen with a platter of food : old, perhaps, the remnants of the nobles’ decadence ... still, it is more edible than the slop provided by the septa. ❝ the queen is your blood, & still it is not in your nature to be so cruel. ❞ the rose receives the endowment of the lioness, a vacuous countenance staring down at the platter : cardinal grapes absconding from their shine, a cut of game she is certain is safe, though past its better days, & the glint of more monumental foods, greater nourishment that doubtlessly dwelled in the stomach of the queen mother. how divergent they were, though of the same blood ; the queen whore, her depraved teeth dripping claret wine & delved deeply into the alabaster of the thorn ; & clarke, a lioness, assuredly ... but a more bounteous, a more unstinting sort. ❝ cersei will not allow me to see my brother, my cousins … ❞ wicked, ungodly bitch ; iniquitous, sinful & profane mother whore! what heinous villain keeps a brother from his sister? a father from his daughter? a madam from her ladies? still, she discerns that her wrath is not with the benefactor before her, & so she motions to the pile of ‘delicacies’ ( this she decrees lightly ) brought to her by the lesser lioness. ❝ but at least i shall not starve. ❞