[ there's still music that flutters out towards their hearing range, cheerful and light and somehow the perfect backdrop for this somber environment they've managed to create for themselves. ice skating has effectively kept the cold at bay, except now Margaery finds herself running almost warm from - she's not quite sure what.

the whole story would be too much. Ellie doesn't deserve the torture of having to skate through it all. ]

My brother was open about his affections for other men. For a while, even with an intolerant atmosphere, we were able to coast through with it being the worst kept secret.

[ anger, she realizes distantly. it's anger that's making her so warm. Cersei's smug face shutters across her mind's eye, along with a ghostly ripple of how it had felt to be so helpless. ]

But I got careless. I angered my enemy to the point where she enabled religious fanatics to take over the kingdom. They took my brother, and me, on account of his perversion, and my knowledge about it. We were imprisoned.