This chapter was written as part of the Facebook challenge "Sur Votre 31":
- Invite : ''Cliff''.
- Number of words: From 100 to 1000 words.

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Context: During episode 1 of season 1, ''Winter is Coming''.

Jaime smiled when he saw his sister leaning over the marble railing in the gallery, watching the Sisters of Silence perform the usual funeral rites of the Faith of the Seven over Jon Arryn's body, lighting candles all around him, and holding strange objects in their hands, whose names he did not know, but which produced a smoke that could be felt throughout the room, despite the oversized size of the Red Keep's throne room.

Cersei was so focused on her observation that she didn't even see her twin brother approaching her, and she was startled when she heard footsteps stop just behind her, but immediately relaxed when she saw that it was only Jaime.

He laughed at her startle, and moved a little closer to her, and also leaned over the railing, in a position very similar to his twin.

''As a brother, it is my duty to warn you. You worry too much. It's starting to show.''

Cersei looked him in the eyes, emerald eyes identical to hers, Lannister emerald eyes, and replied:

''And you never worry about anything. When we were seven years old, you jumped off the cliffs of Casterly Rock. It was a three-hundred-foot plunge. You weren't even scared.''

Jaime remembered the day she was referring to perfectly.

It was late afternoon, but the sun was still high and shining in the blue sky above Casterly Rock, its golden rays producing beautiful silver reflections in the turquoise waters of the sea.

Cersei and Jaime were not allowed to leave the castle alone. But they had made it a ban, as they had so many times before, and Jaime had taken his sister to the beach. The summer day was far too beautiful to be wasted on spending it in the company of boring mestre and severe septas studying uninteresting subjects as much as possible.

They had stayed there for several hours, just lying on the sand as golden as their hair, enjoying the feeling of fullness that came from each other's embrace.

When the sun had begun to drop a little, Cersei suggested that perhaps it was time to go home, as their absence had certainly already been noticed at the castle.

So they set off again, but to go faster, instead of taking the usual winding, sandy path, Jaime had the idea of climbing a few rocks, which might save them precious minutes before someone went looking for them and discovered that they had deliberately decided to disobey their father.

Cersei had been hesitant at first, not having the climbing experience of her brother, who was used to climbing trees and rocks, but her twin had insisted, and eventually she followed him.

But, almost at the top of the cliff, Cersei had skidded and fallen into the bluish water below them.

Jaime didn't think, and jumped right after her, with only one thought in mind: to catch her and save her from drowning.

He had been scared to death, until they finally arrived on shore, panting, soaking wet, out of breath, but safe and sound, having had more fear than harm.

When they arrived at the castle, they had both slipped discreetly into Cersei's apartments, where they had finally fallen asleep, exhausted, in front of the burning fire purring in the fireplace.

''There was no need to be afraid, until you tell Father.''

Lord Tywin had hardly returned from King's Landing when he summoned them to his office.

He knew about it. Of course he knew. Father was always aware of everything that was going on at Casterly Rock.

He had welcomed his son and daughter with a closed face and a stern look in his green eyes with golden reflections, piercing like the eyes of a cat, or rather a lion, and which could not foretell anything good.

He had asked them to explain what had happened, although he already knew it, in fact.

And Cersei, eager to sing the praises of her twin brother, was quick to answer, even before Jaime had had time to open his mouth.

We were climbing, and I slipped and fell into the sea, but Jaime was brave, so brave, you should have seen him, Father, he jumped up and caught me in the water and brought me back to the beach.

Their father's gaze had hardened even more, if that was possible, and when he asked in a calm but cold voice, which betrayed no emotion, what they were doing on the beach, they were forced to admit that they had broken company with their guardians and that they had left the castle when they knew full well that they had no right to do so.

Their father had given them a long sermon, in his inexpressive voice, but which in a way had been far worse than anything he could have said to them by shouting, screaming, and storming.

The twins had begun to leave the office with a deadly feeling in their souls, Cersei apologizing to her brother for being so stupid, for telling their father everything without thinking, and Jaime reassuring her that it was okay, that anyway, their father would have known, since he always knew everything.

But, as they walked through the heavy oak door, Tywin called out to Jaime, who turned around to look his father in the eye :

''We are Lannisters. Lannisters don't behave like fools.''

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