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Dragonstone's focal keep, so named for the manner in which its old walls blast thundered during storms. To contact him, they should cross the display, pass through the center and internal walls with their watchman beasts and darkiron entryways, and climb a greater number of steps than Cressen was minded to ponder. Climbing stages two all at once was difficult for young men; for elderly men with bad hips, each one was agony. However, Master Stannis wouldn't remember to come to him, so the maester surrendered to the experience. At any rate, he had Pylos to help him; at any rate, he was appreciative. Rearranging along the exhibition, they passed before a column of tall curvedwindows with instructing perspectives on the external bailey, the shade wall, and the fishing town past. In the yard, toxophilites were terminating at training buttsto the call of "Indent, draw, free." Their bolts made a sound like a group of birds taking wing. Sentries walked the wallwalks, peering through the beasts at the host setting up camp outside. The morning air was cloudy with the smoke of cookfires, as 3,000 men plunked down to break their diets beneath the standards of their rulers. Past the spread of the camp, the mooring was packed with ships. No art that had come dangerously close to Dragonstone in the previous half year had been allowed to leave again. MasterStannis' Rage, a triple-decked war kitchen of 300 paddles, looked practically small next to a portion of the enormous bellied carracks and machine gear-pieces that encircled her. The watchmen outside the Stone Drum realized the maesters by sight, and they went through. "Stand by here," Cressen told Pylos, inside. "It's best to see him alone." "It is a long trip, Maester." Cressen grinned. "You think I have neglected? "I've climbed these routes so many times that I know each one by name." Mostly up, he lamented his choice. He had halted to get his breath and ease the aggravation in his hip when he heard the scrape of boots on stone, and encountered Ser Davos Seaworth, plunging. Davos was a slight man, his low birth composed of a typical face. A worn green shroud hung over his flimsy shoulders, stained by salt and shower and blurred by the sun, over an earthy colored doublet and breeches that matched his earthy colored eyes and hair. About his neck, a pocket of worn cowhide hung from a strap. His little facial hair was heavily strewn with dark, and he wore a

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