our little remedy (in the common tongue of your loving me) During their stay In Greenstone, Jaime and Cersei pay their respects to the realm's age-old traditions.

stories that built cathedrals Over a month after their first night at the tavern in Eel Alley, Cersei gets the news of her life, and does everything in her power to keep those she loves where they belong - close to her heart.

kissing in the blue dark "It'll cost you." / If he had been anyone lowborn, she would have made him pay for the audacity. It's Jaime, though, so all she says is, "Name your price." / Her brother's hold on her shoulder tightens, as if he thinks she might bolt. "A kiss."

words like violence "It's a solemn affair, she notices – as solemn as it befits a coronation - and it's made more solemn still by the devastated but severe look on the new queen's face;the way she stares ahead but doesn't seem to notice anyone in her audience as her titles are being listed out." Joanna Lannister arrives at the nick of time for her daughter's coronation. Plans for the future are made.

a dream of life When Cersei first recognises the signs, it's difficult to believe it at first. Coda to s07e05: Eastwatch.

1the song nobody knows (and others can't remember) » When Jaime Lannister is a little boy, he loses his mother and his sister in the same stormy night at sea. Years later, the ghosts of his past come to haunt him - far more real than he had ever expected, and nothing like he had imagined them at all.

deep into that darkness peering "Being back in the safety of his chambers is such a ridiculous relief after the day he'd had that at first, Jaime doesn't quite realise that they're not his chambers - at the opposite end of the room, on the still pristinely made bed, his sister sleeps." (Jaime frees his brother. The rest of the night does not go as he'd envisioned it. Coda to 4x10.)

1I love you the way a knife loves a heart(the way a bomb loves a crowd) » Jon becomes the King of the Seven Kingdoms after the war. It should be easy. It feels easy. It isn't.

as the night came down in a Nordic sky During her first night in Castle Black, Sansa reunites with the true North, and Jon welcomes her home.

sweating out confessions (the undone and the divine) "You should know by now. I will only ever die by your hand." (Bronn comes bearing a threat. Jaime's heart catches up with him.)