Sarmion hosts the Sealord's Kingswood hunt, separating women and Dornish hostages to a mounted hart chase while the men hunt boar on foot; Aidan and Valeria bristle at being barred from the boar, Ferro takes the honored boar kill with help from Sarmion and the knights, Valeria helps bring down the hart, and the return feast turns ugly when Sarmion strikes Valeria after she accidentally snaps a broken arrow across him.
Immediately following the wedding of Rosalind Hill to Ser Endros Buckler, Ser Rickard Lannister arrives at the Lannister manse to find his great-nephew at work on other things. The two fall to discussing why Rickard is there.
Aidan meets Reyna and her young son Andrys while visiting the goldsmiths, and their polite walk turns to guarded confidences about Reyna's pregnancy, Aidan's sister Alia and her child at Starfall, and why so many Dornish hostages remain unmarried.
At a guild-sponsored joust meant to calm King's Landing after the riots, Daeron rides before a tense crowd, Lormon Buckler nearly attacks Raynard Locke over his missing son, and Dagur Saltcliffe wins the final prize by unhorsing the king before carrying Reyna from the Tyrell box.
Aidan encounters Blayne Condon after an unfriendly visit to a cobbler, receives awkward congratulations for sharing the tourney prize with Prince Aemon, walks with him toward the Three Hills Inn, and cautiously asks after rumors about Cassella's childbed.
Aidan visits Reyna Saltcliffe to ask whether she can use her Tyrell ties to secure more letters from his sister at Starfall, but their quiet agreement is interrupted by Prince Aegon, who dismisses Aidan through the gold cloaks and leaves Reyna to face him.
Corwen Baratheon receives Aidan Dayne at the Baratheon manse, speaks bluntly about Starfall, Dorne, and Daeron's conquest, and encourages the young hostage to see himself as a knight with courtly options rather than a defeated captive.
Bonifer meets Henly Snow over beer to answer questions about his intentions toward Elyn Ryswell, his family obligations, his mother's likely disapproval, and his conduct in Dorne, winning Henly's cautiously favorable report to Winterfell.
Marian Stark asks Viserys, on Brandon Stark's behalf, to consider sending suitable Dornish prisoners and city convicts to the Night's Watch, and Viserys agrees to authorize the Watch's choice from the city gaols while promising to put the broader Dornish question before Daeron.
Ser Jaesin explains to the dornish women that some Knights don't like tourneys; he does, though, even if he claims to have found no ser, aside the Dragonknight, capable to best him.
A spot of practice with blunt swords is soon replaced by a different sort of bout with sharp words.
Ser Doran Dondarrion meets Lanei Fowler, one of the hostages who attempts, poorly, to do some needlework. An innocent meeting, apparently; but a few painful topics will be drawn as they talk and dig deeper their incipient friendship.
Can one of the Westerosi Knights have a kind and quiet talk with one of the Dornish Hostages?. Doran and Lanei prove that, indeed, it is possible.
There are Sers... and Sers. Jaesin Lannister warns the dornish ladies about this and they find out that, apparently, he looks to be a good knight, and prone to keep his vows.
Ser Doran Dondarrion openly laments his actions in the Conquest earning him Ser Almer Connington's pity, as Liane Uller and Sarmion Stormbreaker look on.