The Mystery Knight — Dunk II
On the kingsroad they fall in with a wedding party bound for Whitewalls: sour Lord Gormon Peake, amiable Ser Alyn Cockshaw, and the golden Ser John the Fiddler, who laughs easily, jousts brilliantly, and says he has dreamed of Dunk before.
The chapter retold
On the kingsroad they fall in with a wedding party bound for Whitewalls, and the company tells you everything if you know how to read it: sour Lord Gormon Peake, amiable Ser Alyn Cockshaw, and above all the golden Ser John the Fiddler — who laughs easily, jousts brilliantly, and unsettles Dunk by claiming to have dreamed of him before. The chapter is all charm and unease, the Fiddler's warmth pulling Dunk in while Peake's cold watchfulness warns him off, and the reader begins to suspect that a hedge knight has wandered into the middle of something far larger than a country wedding.
This movement: The Road to the Wedding
- Gibbets by Stoney Sept: Bloodraven's justice hangs where all can see it, and rumor says the black dragon stirs across the sea.
- Dunk and Egg fall in with lords bound for Lord Butterwell's wedding at Whitewalls — Gormon Peake, Alyn Cockshaw, and the golden, laughing Ser John the Fiddler.
- The Milkhouse gleams over the Gods Eye, packed with every lord who ever drank to Daemon Blackfyre's memory.
- A dragon's egg is promised to the tourney champion, and the Fiddler tells Dunk of dreams: a dragon hatching at Whitewalls, and Dunk in a white cloak.