Editing A Feast for Crows (section)

===In King's Landing===
In the city of [[King's Landing]], the funeral of [[Tywin Lannister]] is held. To [[Cersei Lannister]]'s distaste, Lord [[Mace Tyrell]] tries to use the occasion to put himself forward for the position of [[Hand of the King]] and his uncle, [[Garth Tyrell]], installed on the [[small council]]. Cersei rebuffs him and asks her uncle [[Kevan Lannister|Kevan]] to serve as Hand. Kevan says he will accept only if Cersei steps down as [[Regent]] and returns to [[Casterly Rock]] as Tywin's heir. Cersei furiously refuses him and Kevan leaves to help his son [[Lancel Lannister|Lancel]] rule his new castle of [[Darry]] in the [[riverlands]]. Eventually, she names the biddable [[Harys Swyft]] as Hand and fills the rest of the small council with her minions, including [[Gyles Rosby]] as master of coin, the sellsail [[Aurane Waters]] as grand admiral, and the disgraced ex-maester [[Qyburn]] as master of whisperers. 

The [[Redwyne fleet]] sails from the [[Arbor]] to [[Dragonstone]] and that castle is put under siege, whilst Mace Tyrell leads his army south to invest [[Storm's End]] and end the pretensions of Stannis's loyalists in the south once and for all. Cersei has the [[High Septon (Tyrion's)|High Septon]] murdered by [[Osney Kettleblack]] so that he can be replaced by someone loyal to her, but the newcomer turns out to be the [[High Sparrow]], a zealous martinet who has the support of the war-refugees that now throng in the city. He offers to speed up Tommen's coronation and forgive the crown its debts to the Faith if Cersei will restore the [[Faith Militant]]. Cersei agrees, to the horror of Grand Maester [[Pycelle]]. 

The [[ironborn]] strike hard along the coast of the Reach, conquering the Shield Islands and virtually blockading the mouth of the [[Honeywine]] and the route into Oldtown. Furious, [[Margaery Tyrell]] and her brother [[Loras Tyrell|Loras]] ask Cersei for aid, but Cersei is reluctant to give it. She gives permission for Lord [[Paxter Redwyne]] to take his fleet home and destroy the ironborn, but only once the [[siege of Dragonstone]] is complete. Loras leads an assault on the castle and takes it, but is reported grievously injured in the process. Margaery's protestations vex Cersei, causing her to doubt her future role as Tommen's wife. She conceives a plan to ruin Margaery by framing her to the [[Faith of the Seven]] for sleeping with Osney. Unfortunately the plan backfires when the new High Septon has the knight scourged to ensure the truth of the matter, and he confesses about Cersei's many improprieties as well. The Faith arrests both Cersei and Margaery. Kevan Lannister is recalled to take over as Regent and Hand. Cersei's summons for Jaime to return and defend her go unanswered. Mace Tyrell lifts the siege of Storm's End barely weeks after it began to race back to the capital and learn the fate of his daughter, whilst Randyll Tarly marches on the city from the north. Meanwhile, Aurane Waters absconds with [[Cersei's dromonds]].