Editing Loras Tyrell (section)

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[File:Charlit - Loras and Jaime (detail).png|350px|thumb|Loras and [[Jaime Lannister]] and the [[White Book]] of the [[Kingsguard]] - by Charlit Floriano ©]]

Ser Loras stands vigil with Ser Jaime over the corpse of Lord Tywin Lannister.{{Ref|AFFC|8}} Jaime later notices Loras skillfully training and tries to educate the youth about historical members of the Kingsguard.{{Ref|AFFC|8}} Cersei objects to Loras's offer to train young King [[Tommen I Baratheon]] in the ways of an armed knight.{{Ref|AFFC|24}} When Jaime departs to bring order to the [[riverlands]], he wants Loras to command in his stead in King's Landing, which upsets Cersei.{{Ref|AFFC|27}} King Tommen is impressed with Loras's actions and demeanor, and the knight spends much of his time with his sister, Queen Margaery.{{Ref|AFFC|28}}

After the [[taking of the Shields]] by the [[ironborn]], Cersei refuses to allow the [[Redwyne fleet]] to depart the [[siege of Dragonstone]] and deal with [[Euron Greyjoy]], [[King of the Isles and the North]]. Loras volunteers to take command and hasten the siege.{{Ref|AFFC|32}} Three thousand [[smallfolk]], mostly women, see Loras off when he sails to [[Dragonstone (island)|Dragonstone]] aboard the [[Cersei's dromonds|new dromonds]] of the [[grand admiral]], Lord [[Aurane Waters]].{{Ref|AFFC|36}}

Aurane tells Cersei that Loras has taken Dragonstone. After Stannis's [[castellan]], Ser [[Rolland Storm]], declined Loras's offer of single combat, Loras led the assault on the castle. The reported victory is said to have been needlessly bloodthirsty and true to Cersei's hopes, it is reported that Loras was horribly injured by quarrels, maces, and boiling oil in the battle.{{Ref|AFFC|36}}