Pylos referred to her as princess now, as her ruler father was a lord. A lord in any case, ruler of a smoking stone in the extraordinary salt ocean. "Herfool is with her." The elderly person got some distance from the sunrise, keeping a hand on his wrist to steady himself. "Help me to my seat and show them in." Taking his arm, Pylos drove him inside. In his childhood, Cressen had strolledenergetically, yet he was not a long way from his 80th birthday now, and his legs were slight and unstable. Furthermore, it had never been properly patched. Last year, when he became sick, the Fortification sent Pylos out of Oldtown, only a brief time before Master Stannis had shut the isle... to help him in his work, it was said, but Cressen knew reality. Pylos had come to supplant him when he passed on. He wouldn't fret. Somebody should have his spot, and sooner than he would like... He let the more youthful man settle him behind his books and papers. "Give her a go. It is sick to keep a woman paused. " He waved a hand, a weak motion of scurry from a man at this point not equipped for rushing. Furthermore, he detected the skin so papery and dainty that he could see the snare of veins and the state of bones underneath. Also, how they shuddered, these hands of his that had once been so certain and deft... When Pylos returned, the young lady accompanied him in the most modest manner possible. Behind her,rearranging and bouncing in that eccentric sideways stroll of his, came her moron. His head was a fake rudder formed from an old tin pail, with a rack of deer horns lashed to the crown and hung with cowbells. With his every step, the ringers rang, each with an alternate voice, thump a-darnbong-dong ring-a-ling clong clong. "Who comes to see us so early, Pylos?" Cressen said. "It's me and Patches, Maester." Straightforward blue eyes flickered at him. Unfortunately, Herswas not a lovely face. The youngster had her master father's square jaw, and her mom's sad ears, alongside a deformation all her own,the tradition of the episode of greyscale that had nearly guaranteed her the lodging. Across half one cheek and well down her neck, her tissue was firm and dead,the skin broken and chipping, mottled dark and dim and stony to the touch. "Pylos said we could see the white raven."
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