The Sworn Sword ÔÇö Dunk X
Dunk wakes at Coldmoat, leeched and alive. Peace is made the old way: Ser Eustace Osgrey weds Lady Rohanne Webber, stream and honor mended in a sept. And the Red Widow pays a hedge knight's fee with a kiss ÔÇö and keeps a lock of his hair in her book of debts before Dunk and Egg take the road again.
The chapter retold
Dunk wakes at Coldmoat, leeched and alive, to find the war ended the oldest way of all ÔÇö with a wedding. Ser Eustace Osgrey and Lady Rohanne Webber are wed in a sept, the stream restored to Standfast and both houses' honor mended in the same breath, a settlement that makes a quiet mockery of every drop of blood the quarrel cost. And the Red Widow pays a hedge knight's fee with a kiss, and keeps a lock of his hair pressed in her book of debts, before Dunk and Egg take to the road again ÔÇö the novella closing on the small, human ambiguity that is the saga's signature.
This movement: The Chequy Water
- Two armies meet at a stolen stream: five men behind a chequy lion, thirty-three behind a spotted spider ÔÇö and the marches a spark away from smallfolk slaughter.
- Dunk makes the quarrel single combat: himself against the Longinch, in the middle of the disputed water, before the eyes of gods, knights, and diggers.
- Steel in the stream: Dunk is cut, battered, and half-drowned ÔÇö and Ser Lucas Inchfield is dead in the water at the end of it.
- Peace the old way: Ser Eustace weds Lady Rohanne, the stream flows to Standfast again ÔÇö and the Red Widow settles a hedge knight's fee with a kiss and keeps a lock of his hair.