A Clash of Kings-Chapter 67

Tyrion XV
	A Clash of Kings chapter
POV	Tyrion Lannister
Place	King's Landing
Page	681 UK HC (Other versions)
Chapter chronology (All)
	Tyrion XIV; ↑
	↓; A Storm of Swords; Tyrion I

Tyrion recuperates after the Battle of the Blackwater.

Synopsis

Tyrion lies abed dreaming of the men who died fighting alongside him in the battle, as well as those he killed, and of silent sisters tending to the fallen. When he briefly wakes, the feverish Tyrion realizes he is in a featherbed.

Tyrion dreams of being visited by his sister, Queen Cersei, and his father, Lord Tywin, as well as other visitors, including Varys and Littlefinger.

Podrick Payne runs off when Tyrion awakens. Tyrion finds his lower face has been heavily bandaged. Podrick returns with a strange maester who gives Tyrion milk of the poppy.

Tyrion next dreams of being celebrated at a victory feast which praise from Marillion and Tywin. Jaime dubs Tyrion a knight, and Shae embraces him.

When he awakens, Tyrion realizes that he is not in his chambers in the Tower of the Hand. He then dreams of being with Tysha by their little cottage by the sunset sea.

When Tyrion wakes up, he knocks the milk of the poppy from the strange maester's hands and demands the cast be removed from his face. The maester, Ballabar, keeps mumbling about the queen's orders, but Tyrion will not listen. Besides Tyrion's facial injury, he learns from Ballabar that one of his ribs is broken and he came close to losing his arm to an arrow wound. Tyrion demands wine not poppy, and looks upon his destroyed face in a mirror. Three-quarters of his nose is gone along with part of his lip, and the stitching job was sloppy. Tyrion has been moved to Maegor's Holdfast because Tywin, now Hand of the King, took up residence in the Tower of the Hand.

Tyrion sends Ballabar away and asks for Podrick. When Pod returns, Tyrion tells his squire to get dreamwine from Maester Frenken, for he does not trust Ballabar, and to bring Bronn. Tyrion swears Pod to silence about what occurred at the docks with Ser Mandon Moore.

Character list

Appearing: Petyr Baelish Ballabar Cersei Lannister Jaime Lannister (dream) Tyrion Lannister Tywin Lannister Marillion (dream) Podrick Payne Shae (dream) Tysha (dream) Varys	Mentioned: Joffrey Baratheon Renly Baratheon Stannis Baratheon Boros Blount Jacelyn Bywater Bronn Frenken Osmund Kettleblack Joanna Lannister Mandon Moore Robb Stark Meryn Trant Loras Tyrell Mace Tyrell

Mentions

Events: War of the Five Kings Battle of the Blackwater	Houses: House Baelish House Baratheon House Blount House Bywater House Kettleblack House Lannister House Moore House Payne House Stark House Trant House Tyrell
Places: Bitterbridge Blackwater Rush Casterly Rock King's Landing Red Keep Maegor's Holdfast Queen's Ballroom Tower of the Hand Mountains of the Moon Sunset sea	Terms: Bastard Copper Dreams Dreamwine Ghosts Gold Goose Hand of the King Harp Knight Lion Lord Lord of Casterly Rock Lord of Highgarden Maester Maiden Milk of the poppy Mouse Raven Renly's ghost "The Seasons of My Love" Ship Silent sisters Silver Smallfolk Squire Sun Tourney Usurper Wildfire Wine Wolf

References and Notes

The synopsis was copied from AOL member vbkorik27 previously at [1].
Analyses and summary of the chapter in the course of a 10th reread by Slynt.
Review and summary by Leigh Butler.