"The most
terrifying moment of the day came during Ser Gregor's second joust, when his
lance rode up and struck a young knight from the Vale under the gorget with
such force that it drove through his throat, killing him instantly. The youth
fell not ten feet from where Sansa was seated. The point of Ser Gregor's lance
had snapped off in his neck, and his life's blood flowed out in slow pulses,
each weaker than the one before. His armor was shiny new; a bright streak of
fire ran down his outstretched arm, as the steel caught the light. Then the sun
went behind a cloud, and it was gone. His cloak was blue, the color of the sky
on a clear summer's day, trimmed with a border of crescent moons, but as his
blood seeped into it, the cloth darkened and the moons turned red, one by one.
Jeyne Poole wept so hysterically that Septa Mordane
finally took her off to regain her composure, but Sansa sat with her hands
folded in her lap, watching with a strange fascination. She had never seen a
man die before. She ought to be crying too, she thought, but the tears would
not come. Perhaps she had used up all her tears for Lady and Bran. It would be
different if it had been Jory or Ser Rodrik or Father, she told herself.
The young knight in the blue cloak was nothing to her,
some stranger from the Vale of Arryn whose name she had forgotten as soon as
she heard it. And now the world would forget his name too, Sansa realized;
there would be no songs sung for him. That was sad."

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