Meanwhile, in the Sept, Margaery is the only one to notice something's amiss. He doesn't make it to them in time to blow them out. When the candles melt to the floor, the flame will catch. At the far end of the room, Lancel spots candles. The boy dashes out and cuts Lancel on the back of the leg-I believe the Achilles tendon-crippling the young zealot. Meanwhile, Lancel has followed one such bird down into the cellars beneath the High Sept, into a room filled with barrels of green liquid-wildfire. Qyburn's little birds are a very different breed than those of Varys. A swarm of little children with knives stabbing the old man to death. Grand Maester Pycelle is lured by Qyburn's little birds to an ambush. The entire thing plays out like a scene from The Godfather. So did the High Sparrow, it turns out, who was willing to play dirty and play mean, but never once suspected how much dirtier his adversary would play. Ned Stark underestimated Cersei Lannister. The cold brutality of her need to survive, her self-preservation, isn't so much surprising as it is darkly admirable. Still, when she actually carries it out the sheer enormity of it is staggering. There were many hints as to Cersei's master plan once she discovered that trial by combat was off the table. "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die." ~ Cersei Lannister, to Ned Stark
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