For @xbrierxrcse continued from here
"Forgiveness? Have you gone mad? Have you forgotten what he did?" There is no supressing this anger, nothing that could quench its fire. If Renly were here, he would know how to soothe him, know the right words to calm his rage. But Renly isn't here, and he never will be again. That's sort of the whole problem.
"There has to be another way. I can't... I won't stand there and call Renly a traitor, or a false king. I can't betray his memory like that, please don't ask that of me." He isn't naive, though. He knows there isn't an ally they could seek that wouldn't make a similar demand of his conscience sooner or later. Maybe the Starks would understand, but they would be the only ones. But all the same, there's something about bending the knee to Stannis that seems especially distasteful. "There has to be another way."
