Stewie lost no time in telling the others what he had seen.
As he finished telling the story, Meg's hands curled into fists. "That Quagmire! I never liked him!"
"Well, he's not the one we have to worry about now," Dany said thoughtfully. "It sounds like our concern is these… Four Sisters… whatever they are."
"Who would have thought it?" said Brian. "Even after Bill's been defeated, he's still causing trouble."
"It seems we keep solving one problem only to be faced with another," Tyrion said wearily. "It reminds me of those painted wooden birds that travelers sometimes show- the ones that you can pull in half."
"Oh, yeah, I've seen those!" said Steve. "You open one bird and there's a smaller one inside. Open the smaller bird, and you find one smaller still. And so on, until there's a bird no bigger than your thumbnail. And inside that is a tiny egg. I used to collect them!"
Bronn made an impatient noise. "Why are we talkin' about toys? We should be talkin' about how to find the Four Sisters and destroy them!"
Dany looked at Stewie. "You said Bill left a map with the Sisters' locations, right?"
Stewie nodded. "But he didn't say where it was. He just said it was 'under his eye.'"
"Hmm," said Brian. "Well, maybe the map was hidden somewhere in that secret room they were talking in."
"But we don't know where that is either," said Tyrion. "It seems the only ones who knew of the room's existence were Quagmire and Bill. I don't think even Varys knew about it!"
"I can find it," Stewie interposed. His eyes rolled up again as he scanned his vast stores of knowledge for the room's location. "Okay," he said after a minute. "I know where to find it now."
"Lead us to it," Dany commanded.
"I will," said Stewie. "But someone will have to carry me. I can't make it down all those stairs in my wheelchair."
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During his attack on King's Landing, Bill had burned much of the Red Keep to the ground. Dany and Brian had rebuilt it at great expense, but the basement was one of the few parts of the original structure to be spared, since it was underground.
Lois led the way, holding Stewie in her arms as Stewie directed her where to go. Dany and the rest followed behind. They walked down countless flights of creaky wooden stairs, and wandered through innumerable dark secret passages.
Tyrion whistled softly to himself. "I can't believe I lived in this castle for most of my adult life, and had no idea any of this was here!"
"We almost there, Stewie?" Brian asked.
Stewie looked back at him over Lois's shoulder. "Just about."
As he said these words, Lois came to a stop. The corridor they were traversing had come to an end. Now they were standing in front of a big yellow door.
Dany walked up to the door. "Look! In the center of the door, there's a tiny triangle carved into the wood."
"We must be on the right track then," said Lois.
Dany pushed on the door and it swung open. Beyond the door lay a few more steps, which led down into a big open space. "This is it!" Stewie exclaimed.
They all went down the stairs and crowded into the room, which was absolutely empty except for a solitary swivel chair.
"Not too many places to hide something in here," Brian commented.
Stewie pointed at the chair. "I saw that in my vision. Bill was hovering above it."
"'Under Bill's eye,'" Tyrion mused. "He must have been talking about this chair. Maybe there's a secret compartment in there."
He walked over to the chair and turned it on its side, examining it closely.
Dany came and stood beside him. "Find anything?"
The dwarf shook his head. "Not yet. The most obvious place for a secret compartment would be the seat, of course, but I don't see how you could take the seat off. There are no screws or anything holding it in place. I just don't see how…"
"Gimme that thing," Bronn growled, lumbering over and snatching the chair from Tyrion's hands. Bronn lifted the chair and flung it across the room. It hit the wall and broke into pieces.
"Well, that's one way of doing it, I suppose," said Tyrion.
Dany was already across the room, bending down on her hands and knees, searching through the wreckage. Her hand closed on a folded-up piece of paper.
"Is that the map?" Meg asked.
"I think so," said Dany. "But it's too dark to read it properly in here. Let's take it back upstairs."
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"Well, that was easy," said Brian.
"Almost too easy," said Stewie.
They were back in the throne room. Dany was looking at the paper. "Look, there's a poem written on the back," she said. "'Sisters four with poisoned breath/ Bring to the land a long slow death."
"That's cheerful," said Tyrion.
"But it talks about the Four Sisters," said Brian. "We must be on the right track."
Dany turned the paper over to look at the map on the other side, but her face fell as she scanned it. "What's wrong?" Brian asked.
"Well, there must be some mistake. Instead of showing all of Westeros, it just shows the area north of the Wall."
Everyone crowded around to see. The map did indeed depict the area north of the Wall, but it was a more thorough map of the region than any ever made before. The lands beyond the Wall had never been fully explored or charted by humans, because of the dangers there. But of course, this map had been drawn by Bill. Bill wouldn't have needed to be afraid of anything up there, because nothing was more dangerous than him.
"I recognize a lot of these places from my time in the Night's Watch," Steve said.
"Me too," said Brian. "There's the village of Whitetree, and there's Hardhome."
Stewie peered over Dany's shoulder. "I say, that's the cave where I learned how to use my powers!" he said, indicating a spot on the map.
"Interesting," said Dany. "But I think we should be most concerned with this area here."
She pointed to the very top of the paper, where a place called "Dragon's Mouth," was marked with a large "S."
"Dragon's Mouth," said Steve. "Sounds spooky."
"Well, I'm not afraid of dragons," said Dany. "I'm the mother of dragons. This must be where the first of the Four Sisters lies. What else could that giant S mean?"
Brian took the map from Dany and studied it. "I've never heard of anyplace called Dragon's Mouth. This is farther north than even I've ever been."
"Or me either," added Stewie.
"Then we have no idea what this place even is," said Davos. "It could be a town, a castle, a cave, or just about anything."
"It doesn't matter what it is," said Dany. "As queen of Westeros, it's my duty to travel there, seek out the Sister, and destroy it."
"What about the other three Sisters?" Tyrion wondered.
"Maybe the next piece of the map will be waiting for me at Dragon's Mouth too," Dany said. "In any case, I know that the first of the Sisters is there. I'll set out for Dragon's Mouth first thing tomorrow."
"And I'll be right by your side!" Brian promised.
Dany smiled. "I wouldn't have it any other way."
