In A Storm of Swords, who initiated the rescue of
Tyrion Lannister when he was locked up in a cell, about to be executed for the murder of Joffrey?
I know Varys and Jaime were both involved, but who came up with the rescue plan?
In A Storm of Swords, who initiated the rescue of
Tyrion Lannister when he was locked up in a cell, about to be executed for the murder of Joffrey?
I know Varys and Jaime were both involved, but who came up with the rescue plan?
Jaime initiated it.
In fact he had to threaten Varys at dagger-point in order to make the eunuch go along with it. The details (including hidden passages) might have been worked out by Varys, but the whole idea was Jaime's.
Quoting from Chapter 8 (Jaime-PoV) of A Feast for Crows, in a flashback scene:
He had waited in the eunuch's chambers that night, when at last he had decided not to let his little brother die. As he waited, he had sharpened his dagger with one hand, taking a queer comfort from the scrape-scrape-scrape of steel on stone. At the sound of footsteps he stood beside the door. Varys entered in a wash of powder and lavender. Jaime stepped out behind him, kicked him in the back of the knee, knelt on his chest, and shoved the knife up under his soft white chin, forcing his head up. "Why, Lord Varys," he'd said pleasantly, "fancy meeting you here."
"Ser Jaime?" Varys panted. "You frightened me."
"I meant to." When he twisted the dagger, a trickle of blood ran down the blade. "I was thinking you might help me pluck my brother from his cell before Ser Ilyn lops his head off. It is an ugly head, I grant you, but he only has the one."
"Yes . . . well . . . if you would . . . remove the blade . . . yes, gently, as it please my lord, gently, oh, I'm pricked . . ."
:-)
etc etc
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Sep 15 '15 at 22:08