I chose Ned's chapter on pages 480-488. Ned had just broken his leg and is a great deal of pain from it. However, he has very important decisions to toil over to distract himself from the pain. He is worried about how Robert, Cersei, and Lord Tywin will react to his decision to kill The Mountain. Ned asks for help in going outside (where the gods can see) and calls upon Cersei to come outside and talk with him. In their conversation, he reveals to her that he knows that none of her children are from Robert (due to the fact that the Baratheon coal-colored hair did not overcome the Lannister gold) and tells Cersei to leave. Cersei is a horrible person and is unimpressed and definitely doesn't really care.
This chapter gives us the famous quote, "when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die." This is just absolutely crucial and, coming from Cersei, is a very important point in the story. This chapter reveals to us new information about why Jon Arryn died and what the big secret and purpose of research was about. I personally thought that the children were Jaime's as soon as I knew him and Cersei were so gross together. I just think the confirmation of this and the way Cersei reacts is a big moment of foreshadow. Cersei does not even flinch when Ned reveals what he knows. She thinks she is untouchable and, honestly, the Lannisters kind of are. It goes to show how sneaky and resourceful they are and a lot of it is due to their abundance of wealth. I believe this chapter is just a pretty big turn of events because we start to think Ned might have the upper-hand but the way she accepts his warning with her own warning is telling us that it just can't be that simple. Ned will either win or die, but when you play with the Lannisters, you really don't have much of a choice of which occurs.
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