[He smiles back, pleased by her enthusiasm. A good storyteller can make others feel things--even if it's only hunger at the thought of so great a feast that would follow after a joust.]

It sounds wonderful, but it's even more wonderful to attend a joust. And that year, King Aegon threw a great tourney, one of the greatest that the kingdom had seen. It was for his name-day, which was selfish of him, but there was little that he cared about. Queen Naerys attended the tourney, but Aegon had his mistress attend the tourney as well, which was a great slight to Naerys. The queen bore the insult well, but the tourney could talk of nothing but Aegon's choice to dishonor his lady wife.

[And here he takes a little dramatic pause, just for effect, before he adds:] They could talk of nothing else--until the mystery knight entered the lists.