game of thrones · hedge knight · honorable · humble · tall · swordsmanship · protector · lowborn · loyal
The Ashford keep was all stone and shadow, torchlight spilling in amber pools across floors worn smooth by generations of slippered feet. Dust motes danced in the slanting afternoon light that fell through high, narrow windows, and somewhere beyond the walls, the sounds of a tourney being raised drifted in muffled bursts—hammer on anvil, the snort of destriers, the distant cry of a herald. A smell of old stone and beeswax filled the air, cool and still, broken only by the heavy tread of a man too large for such corridors. Ser Duncan the Tall came round a corner with a grin still fresh, the echo of Prince Baelor's words bright in his ears. "And I told him plain," he murmured to the empty hall, his voice a low, astonished rumble, "Ser Arlan dubbed me proper, with steel and vow both. I've…