They had found a chamber full of skulls and yellowed bones, and four sacks of tarnished silver coins from the reign of the first King Viserys.
Ancient mystery clue?
At least she was spared Lady Tanda’s tearful embraces. None of the Stokeworth women had appeared, and for that much the queen was grateful.
Why not?
Lady Olenna complained loudly. “I was hoping for ‘The Rains of Castamere.’”
Whenever Cersei looked at the old crone, the face of Maggy the Frog seemed to float before her eyes, wrinkled and terrible and wise. All old women look alike, she tried to tell herself, that’s all it is. In truth, the bent-back sorceress had looked nothing like the Queen of Thorns, yet somehow the sight of Lady Olenna’s nasty little smile was enough to put her back in Maggy’s tent again. She could still remember the smell of it, redolent with queer eastern spices, and the softness of Maggy’s gums as she sucked the blood from Cersei’s finger. Queen you shall be, the old woman had promised, with her lips still wet and red and glistening, until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.
Valonqar clue?
“This wedding was necessary. The boy is safe.”
“Fool. No one who wears a crown is ever safe.”
Cersei touches Blood Right and Power Corrupts theme.
Is Taena lying about Senelle? Perhaps Senelle’s meetings are harmless. Taena lied at Tyrion’s trial.
Apples and Dragons 