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| - "Maybe we should offer Deityr Goldfoot terms."
- "Jon, Ella, this is your home too. The Goldfoots are your enemies. Should we heed this?"
- Rona frowns. "King Balon has grown more paranoid. My only agent there was thrown out of the castle two days ago for asking too many questions."
- "It's gone too far. If we retreat, Goldfoot will retaliate," Jon says firlmy. Ella agrees. "The Drowned God has no sympathy for the weak."
- "King Balon won't want a bannerman who can't even protect his own lands."
- "King Balon wouldn't even send men to sve his own son," Maester Lucas observes. "I can't see him lifting even a finger for House Goldfooot."
- When you return, Maester Lucas reads the letter. "The question is, does King Balon mean his promise of support? Or was it an expedient thing to say?"
- "Rona? Have we heard anything from Pyke? What's happening there?"
- "What do you think, Maester? Will King Balon risk his men to defend House Goldfoot?"
- "We should send King Balon our own petition, citing House Goldfoot's crimes against us."
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