Lord Lynd shook his head, shattering Margaery's dream, saying, "I don't recommend you go there. It's a city that makes people disgusted just by looking at it. If you stay there too long, you'll feel as if your soul has been drawn out by the entire city, gradually losing all emotions."
Margaery, however, was undeterred and asked again, "In Sea Snake Corlys Velaryon's book, it mentions seeing Alyssa Farman's ship docked at the Asshai harbor. Is that true?"
"It's true." Lord Lynd nodded and said, "Alyssa Farman's ship is indeed docked at the Asshai harbor. The people of Asshai treat this ship with great respect, regularly performing maintenance and upkeep. To this day, the ship is still capable of sailing on the sea."
"Then..." Margaery wanted to ask something else.
Lord Lynd immediately raised his hand to interrupt, saying, "If you want to know more about Asshai, ask Archmaester Marwyn directly next time he comes to the castle. He lived in Asshai for a period and knows much more about the situation there than I do." As he spoke, he pointed to the special intelligence Margaery had just finished reading and said, "I think you should take this intelligence to Sansa now."
Margaery nodded and immediately took the intelligence, hurrying out.
After Margaery left, Lord Lynd did not continue with his duties. Instead, he pondered for a moment, then casually took a piece of paper from nearby, quickly wrote a few lines, sealed it, and then rang a bell, calling in the attendant waiting outside. He instructed, "Immediately send this letter to Daisy by raven."
The attendant took the sealed letter and left the study.
Guest Right is one of Westeros' most important sacred laws. Both the doctrines of the Seven Gods and the regulations of the Old Gods record this sacred law, and both explain the punishments for violating this rule.
For countless years, the nobles and commoners of Westeros have strictly adhered to this sacred law, with very few instances of Guest Right being trampled upon. The most famous incident of Guest Right being trampled was the Rat Cook incident.
A Nights Watch cook from Long Night Fort, seeking revenge on the King, killed the King's son when the King came to Long Night Fort, established Guest Right, and relaxed his guard. He then cooked the son into a pie and fed it to the King.
Although this Nights Watch cook had the right to revenge, he used the most wrong method and was ultimately transformed into a female rat by the gods, cursed to be perpetually hungry, only able to relieve her hunger by eating her own children.
The song about the Rat Cook is known and sung by almost every adult, child, and elder in Westeros.
It is precisely because of this that the sacred law of Guest Right has been deeply imprinted in their minds from childhood, and even the most heinous people would adhere to this law.
However, the Frey family at The Twins has now trampled this law. After establishing Guest Right with the visiting Robb Stark and his subordinates, they launched a surprise attack during the wedding feast, when everyone's guard was down, brutally killing the unarmed Robb Stark and his subordinates in the banquet hall. Furthermore, the Frey soldiers also raided the Northern Allied Forces' camp, slaughtering them completely.
However, the gods' punishment for trampling Guest Right soon appeared. Robb Stark's subordinates, Daisy Mormont, the Countess of Bear Island, Yohn Royce, the Earl of Runestone in the Vale, and Brynden Tully, the acting Lord of Riverrun, appeared outside The Twins on the evening of the second day, while the Frey family was cleaning up and celebrating their victory. They launched an attack on The Twins and, with the enemy completely unprepared, captured the city gates, directly invading the city.
After learning that Robb Stark and the others had died, Daisy Mormont ordered Yohn Royce and Brynden Tully to block the two exits of The Twins, while she led her Bear Island warriors and Giant Bear soldiers in a massacre of the city.
Including Walder Frey, the Marquis of The Twins, almost all of the Frey family died in this massacre. Only a few Freys, seeing the unfavorable situation, decisively jumped into the Green Fork River and disappeared without a trace.
Edmure Tully, the Lord of Riverrun, who had come to The Twins for the marriage, was originally confined by the Frey family. However, during Daisy Mormont's massacre of The Twins, he was killed by desperate Frey family members, and his newlywed wife also died at the hands of her own brothers.
This massacre lasted from the evening of the previous day until the morning of the second day. All the nobles and noble-related families in The Twins were slaughtered clean by Daisy Mormont's Bear Island warriors. Just as Daisy was about to turn her blade on the commoners, she was stopped by Brynden Tully, who couldn't bear to watch. Although this seasoned old general was also deeply saddened by the deaths of Robb Stark and Edmure Tully, he still felt that Daisy's massacre was excessive.
Bronze Yohn Royce also persuaded Daisy, feeling that enough people had died, which finally made Daisy stop and sheath her sword.
Afterward, Daisy Mormont had Ser Patrick Mallister, who had arrived from Seagard, lead the Seagard army to take over The Twins and temporarily act as Lord of The Twins. She, Blackfish Brynden, and Bronze Yohn returned to Riverrun to await further developments.
The Frey family of The Twins trampling Guest Right and massacring Robb Stark and other Northern lords and nobles, and Daisy Mormont's righteous revenge and massacre of The Twins, spread throughout Westeros almost simultaneously.
While everyone felt disgusted by the Frey family's trampling of Guest Right, they were also shocked by Daisy Mormont's brutal massacre. According to the post-event statistics of Ser Patrick Mallister, the acting Lord of The Twins, only about 30,000 out of approximately 100,000 people in The Twins remained. A total of 70,000 people died overnight at the hands of Daisy and her Bear Island warriors. Although some were nobles, many were innocent commoners. Evidently, the bloodthirsty Bear Island warriors no longer cared about identity; anyone from The Twins was to be killed.
When Brynden and Yohn intervened, the Bear Island warriors had already killed many commoners.
And so, the moniker of the Bloody Bear Maiden began to spread across Westeros.
With Robb Stark's death, this war over the succession to the throne was considered over, but the subsequent events did not end there and continued to escalate.
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