Georges Rochegrosse, Le Chevalier aux Fleurs (The Knight of the Flowers) (detail) (1894), oil on canvas
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Body, be who you need to be. Brown girl in an orange dress.
Red macaw in a canopy. Be flock. Be the oldest living thing
rooted beneath the language of things. The cypress your mother
called Sarv-e Abarkuh. Be a life less heavy with history.
Be the little boy who skips school to sell tea on the street. Be a box
of pears clothed in gold paper. Be something more tart. Lime. Be mouth, be kingdom. Wear something made of infinity. Be sunset
over a silk Zardosi sea. Be the young girl who survived a drowning
by her loved ones. Be acid. Be sailed. Be colony. Be endangered
and dangerous. Wear your own damp skin. Body, be something
useful. Be dam and river the desert like blue streamers.
River the village like the saddest epic. When you lay in the street
with blood pooling around you, be memory. Be at the center
of living. If nothing else, be a shadow of the thing.
— Shireen Madon, “Dear Body”
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MACE TYRELL, Lord of Highgarden, Warden of the South, Defender of the Marches, High Marshal of the Reach,
His wife, LADY ALERIE, of House Hightower of Oldtown,
Their children:
WILLAS, their eldest son, heir to Highgarden,
SER GARLAN, called the Gallant, their second son,
SER LORAS, the Knight of Flowers, their youngest son,
MARGAERY, their daughter, a maid of fourteen years,
His widowed mother, LADY OLENNA of House Redwyne, called the Queen of Thorns,
His sisters:
MINA, wed to Lord Paxter Redwyne,
JANNA, wed to Ser Jon Fossoway,
His uncles:
GARTH, called the Gross, Lord Seneschal of Highgarden,
His bastard sons, GARSE and GARRETT FLOWERS,
SER MORYN, Lord Commander of the City Watch of Oldtown,
MAESTER GORMON, a scholar of the Citadel,
His household:
MAESTER LOMYS, counselor, healer, and tutor,
IGON VYRWEL, captain of the guard,
SER VORTIMER CRANE, master-at-arms,
His knights and lords bannermen:
PAXTER REDWYNE, Lord of the Arbor,
His wife, LADY MINA, of House Tyrell,
Their children:
SER HORAS, mocked as Horror, twin to Hobber,
SER HOBBER, mocked as Slobber, twin to Horas,
DESMERA, a maid of fifteen,
RANDYLL TARLY, Lord of Horn Hill,
SAMWELL, his elder son, of the Night’s Watch,
DICKON, his younger son, heir to Horn Hill,
ARWYN OAKHEART, Lady of Old Oak,
MATHIS ROWAN, Lord of Goldengrove,
LEYTON HIGHTOWER, Voice of Oldtown, Lord of the Port,
SER JON FOSSOWAY.
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