Immobile as a marble statue beside her, holding a cold hand, lifeless.
Her features are still delicate, he has cleaned the blood on her face, the crimson rivulets staining her rounded chin, he has closed her eyes for the last time.
He was the first thing her eyes saw, when Cersei held the tiny newborn in her arms after she was cleaned from the birth blood and the baby opened her pale green eyes on his face and captured his heart from the beginning.
Jaime has been a silent father for all her life, until the very last end.
Her body is cold, rigid, like his right hand, a bloodless lifeless creation he is forced to wear.
He has to cover her body with the cloak she eventually deserves – the one that had to be hers by birth right, the one of her true father - to hide her from disrespectful eyes that would see how pale she is now, how her golden mane is loosing its colour.
There is a strange silence, outside, the boat is quiet, he's spent the night with his daughter's corpse, unaware of the route.
They are sailing home, to her mother, to his sister, for the second time he has to offer Cersei a dead child. It is the revenge of the gods against them?
Lommy has been the first to feel strange, three days after they left the anonymous village near Storm's end.
He retches the rabbit they ate around the fire and his face becomes red. Fever, Hot Pie declares. At first Arya mocks Hot Pie, telling him he is not a master, but Lommy don't get better.
Gentry wants to find a inn, a maester, because Lommy is unable to walk and they have to drag him over their only mule. But the young group of travellers has no money, so the only way to get some is stealing it.
Arya is in charge of the task: small, a fast mouse, a thin cat, she can easily pass unnoticed along the market stalls and grab a purse or a golden ring.
But Lommy is worsening fast, on his chest pustules appear, they have no time to find more than a few coins and Gendry kneels in front of the maester – a thin old man with a face full of pox scars - promising to work for him in exchange for treating Lommy.
Herbs, a strange dark tea, ointments to ease the need to scratch the big pimples and draw blood and some yellow liquid. No results.
The master asks Gendry to keep always on the fireplace pots with hot and steaming water, he forces them to daily baths and Arya hates to wash herself in front of her friends, especially when Gendry's eyes linger over her frame.
Lommy is delirious when Hot Pie starts feeling sick, too, the same day two men from the village arrives lamenting illnesses and Arya sees the maester's face getting white for fear.