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  1. hold fast and slow down by

    Fandoms: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms  

    13 Jun 2026

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    Dunk says nothing.
    The not-saying costs him. He can feel the words crowding up behind his teeth, the foolish desperate words, and what of this, what of me, what of the dead candle and the unbarred door, and he holds them, because he knows what they are worth, which is nothing, less than nothing, they are the kind of words that end a thing like this, and Dunk has discovered in himself a cowardice he did not know he owned, which is that he would rather have the fire on these terms than not have it at all.

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