Editing Balerion (cat) (section)

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:SirHeartsalot Arya Cat.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Arya Stark]] chases the old black tomcat. Art by Sir-Heartsalot ©]]
‎[[Arya Stark]] is assigned by [[Syrio Forel]] to catch every cat in the [[Red Keep]], and she succeeds with all, except for one mean one-eared black tomcat. She chases him halfway across the castle before she finally catches him, and kisses his forehead while he tries to claw her. Prince [[Tommen Baratheon]], his sister Princess [[Myrcella Baratheon|Myrcella]], and their [[septa]] observe this, and believe that Arya is a strange [[peasant]] boy who does not belong in that part of the castle. The septa commands [[red cloaks]] to grab Arya, but she escapes.{{Ref|AGOT|32}}

Lord [[Varys]] speaks to Lord [[Eddard Stark]] when he is imprisoned in the [[black cells]] of the Red Keep, and tells him about Princess [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|Rhaenys Targaryen]] and her kitten.{{Ref|AGOT|58}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
[[Sansa Stark]], visiting the [[godswood of the Red Keep]] late at night, encounters the one-eared black tom. He brushes against her leg, then spits at her and runs away.{{Ref|ACOK|18}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Tommen, now king, is gifted three black kittens by his wife, Queen [[Margaery Tyrell]]. The boy king's mother, Queen Regent [[Cersei Lannister]], wishes they were not black, as she feels Princess Rhaenys's black kitten brought her [[Sack of King's Landing|bad luck]].{{Ref|AFFC|24}}

Arya Stark, as the [[Braavos]] street urchin and fishmonger Cat of the Canals, encounters many cats, one of which reminds her of the one-eared cat she had chased in the Red Keep.{{Ref|AFFC|34}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
King Tommen Baratheon tells his uncle, Lord Regent [[Kevan Lannister]], that the "bad cat" had been outside his window the previous night, but his kitten [[Ser Pounce]] had hissed at him and he ran off. Cersei explains about the old black tom, who once attacked her son [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]].{{Ref|ADWD|72}}