The Mystery Knight — Dunk IV
The bedding and the after-feast: Dunk drinks with the shrewd Ser Maynard Plumm, ducks Ser Alyn's strange hostility, and hears the Fiddler talk of dreams — a dragon hatching at Whitewalls, and Dunk in white armor with a white cloak.
The chapter retold
The bedding and the after-feast fill in the plot's shadows. Dunk drinks with the shrewd, watchful Ser Maynard Plumm, dodges Ser Alyn Cockshaw's strange and growing hostility, and hears the Fiddler talk again of his dreams — a dragon hatching at Whitewalls, and Dunk himself in white armor and a white cloak. The chapter lets the Fiddler's vision hang seductively in the air, a hedge knight offered a place in a prophecy, while the sharper men around the table quietly take Dunk's measure for uses of their own.
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.