Tja, låt oss bryta ner det.
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Motivet
Som vi alla vet, "Cersei är en lögnare, hon har kollat Lancel och Osmund Kettleblack och förmodligen Moon Boy för allt jag vet", citerar Tyrion. Hon fuskade på sin bror med sin kusin, så som du kan förutse, det var en hemlighet.
Men sedan attackerade Stannis, Slag om Blackwater hände och Lancel hade en nära dödsupplevelse. Det förändrade honom, det gjorde honom till en fanatisk / fromma man, välj ditt ord. Han önskade förlåtelse för sina synder, så illa. Och idiot berättade om hans förändring till Cersei:
Lancel nodded, plainly miserable. "When it seemed that I might die, my father brought the High Septon to pray for me. He is a good man." Her cousin's eyes were wet and shiny, a child's eyes in an old man's face. "He says the Mother spared me for some holy purpose, so I might atone for my sins."
Cersei wondered how he intended to atone for her. Knighting him was a mistake, and bedding him a bigger one. Lancel was a weak reed, and she liked his newfound piety not at all; he had been much more amusing when he was trying to be Jaime. What has this mewling fool told the High Septon? And what will he tell his little Frey when they lie together in the dark? If he confessed to bedding Cersei, well, she could weather that. Men were always lying about women; she would put it down as the braggadocio of a callow boy smitten by her beauty. If he sings of Robert and the strongwine, though . . . "Atonement is best achieved through prayer," Cersei told him. "Silent prayer." She left him to think about that and girded herself to face the Tyrell host.
AFFC - Cersei II
Så där har du det, Cresei fruktade att Lancel skulle kunna avslöja sin roll i Roberts mord för hela riket att se. Hon var inte säker på om han faktiskt berättade för High Septon om den specifika synden, men bättre säker än förlåt eh?
Cersei s snabba åtgärder
Cersei tyckte inte om hur High Septon såg på henne efter att hennes far mördades. Hon kunde inte vara säker på om det var ett visst leende eller ett hotande leende, vilket är detsamma ändå. Och då hände det till henne, att den här mannen utses av Imp, vad händer om han är i liga med honom?
This one... This High Septon was of Tyrion’s making, Cersei recalled suddenly. It was a disquieting thought.
The old man’s spotted hand looked like a chicken claw as it poked from a sleeve encrusted with golden scrollwork and small crystals. Cersei knelt on the wet marble and kissed his fingers, and bid Tommen to do the same. What does he know of me? How much did the dwarf tell him? The High Septon smiled as he escorted her into the sept. But was it a threatening smile full of unspoken knowledge, or just some vacuous twitch of an old man’s wrinkled lips? The queen could not be certain.
AFFC - Cersei II
Hon visste att Tyrion var hennes dödliga fiende och om den här mannen var hans varelse, kunde hon aldrig sova lätt tills hon tog hand om honom. Och det var naturligtvis ett litet problem som heter Lancel. Cersei förköpte henne fiender innan de kunde fälla henne.
The Deed
Hög Septon dog uppenbarligen i hans sömn.
Qyburn had reminded her of that, the clever man. “Our late High Septon let too much pass, I fear. Age had dimmed his sight and sapped his strength.”
“He was an old done man, Your Grace.” Qyburn smiled at Pycelle. “His passing should not have surprised us. No man can ask for more than to die peacefully in his sleep, full of years.”
AFFC - Cersei IV
Notera nu hur Qyburn passerade ett leende till Pycelle medan man talade om gamla män som dö i sömnen. Är han bredvid dö i sin sömn? Men varför Pycelle? Nåväl, Pycelle vet också om incest och mord på Jon Arryn. Kanske var det dags att rensa domstolen och Cersei sa redan att hon ville sopa domstolen ren och omringa Tommen med sitt eget folk.
Och det var slutet på det. Alla tyckte att High Septon dog naturligt. Cersei plan var framgångsrik, även läsarna var inte medvetna om vad som hade hänt.
Det var tills Cersei agerade på sin andra plan för att bli av med Margaery Tyrell. Hon skickade Osney Kettleblack för att ha ett falskt vittne mot henne, men saker höll igen när Osney anklagade henne istället, inte bara för äktenskapsbrott, utan också för att mörda High Septon.
He is just a priest, he cannot do this. “It is not for the Faith to condemn a man to death, whatever his offense.”
“Whatever his offense.” The High Septon repeated the words slowly, weighing them. “Strange to say, Your Grace, the more diligently we applied the scourge, the more Ser Osney’s offenses seemed to change. He would now have us believe that he never touched Margaery Tyrell. Is that not so, Ser Osney?”
Osney Kettleblack opened his eyes. When he saw the queen standing there before him he ran his tongue across his swollen lips, and said, “The Wall. You promised me the Wall.”
“He is mad,” said Cersei. “You have driven him mad.”
“Ser Osney,” said the High Septon, in a firm, clear voice, “did you have carnal knowledge of the queen?”
“Aye.” The chains rattled softly as Osney twisted in his shackles. “That one there. She’s the queen I fucked, the one sent me to kill the old High Septon. He never had no guards. I just come in when he was sleeping and pushed a pillow down across his face.”
AFFC - Cersei X
Så spillde Lancel bönorna?
Ja, det gjorde han. Han erkände så mycket framför Jaime. Han bekände att han mordade Robert och sängar drottningen. Och han medgav också att han berättade för High Septon allt.
“Do not think ill of the queen,” Lancel pleaded. “All flesh is weak, Jaime. No harm came of our sin. No... no bastard.”
“No. Bastards are seldom made upon the belly.” He wondered what his cousin would say if he were to confess his own sins, the three treasons Cersei had named Joffrey, Tommen, and Myrcella.
“I was angry with Her Grace after the battle, but the High Septon said I must forgive her.”
“You confessed your sins to His High Holiness, did you?”
“He prayed for me when I was wounded. He was a good man.”
He’s a dead man. They rang the bells for him. He wondered if his cousin had any notion what fruit his words had borne. “Lancel, you’re a bloody fool.”
AFFC - Jaime IV
Det är oklart om Lancel insåg vad han hade gjort men Jaime visste genast att det var varför High Septon dog så plötsligt.
Så ja, vår gröna ögonlejoninna hade rätt hela tiden.
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