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    Ten years after being exiled to Essos, Aerion Targaryen is summoned back to Westeros by King Baelor. Unfortunately for everyone involved, he returns older, sharper, politically useful, and accompanied by a mysterious companion from across the Narrow Sea.

    Egg is back at court. Dunk is given the thankless task of keeping an eye on Aerion. The Red Keep receives his return with all the warmth and grace of a kicked hornet’s nest.

    Dunk remembers Aerion as beautiful, cruel, and deeply alarming. What he gets instead is a prince who speaks in foreign tongues, makes himself useful in deeply irritating ways, and may or may not have actually changed, which is frankly worse.

    Major rewrite to the opening chapters. If you read this a while ago, it’s worth giving it another look!

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