Lord Jon Arryn closed his eyes as if he was in deep pain and tried not to show it after hearing the words of Shireen Baratheon. He opened them again with a hard pressed sigh. The words that the girl spoke so openly and with childish innocence, would bring them all only headaches and trouble, more trouble than the Kingdom would really not need.

The Lord Hand looked to his King, who was just staring at the little daughter of his brother with a shocked look upon his face. Robert Baratheons mouth hung stunned open and he looked from his little niece to his brother and then to his Hand. Finally his eyes landed back on his niece again.

"Girl, do you even know what you just said, what you just had said into my face? You just told me, your own Uncle and King, that my Children look nothing like me but my bastard boy does and that you have dreamed of more bastards that i have. Which i do not know about of course."

The King spoke to his niece, shook his head unbelievingly and then turned his head without wanting to hear an answer to his question, to where his wife was helped up from the floor by her brother. The Queen's cheek showed a red handprint from where her husband slapped her hard enough to let her loose her footing just moments ago.

Prince Joffrey tried to speak but the King told him to shut up and that he was not interested to hear anything else now from children.

The Queen looked up with a bitter look on her face, she started to snarl at her husband when she noticed him looking at her after he forbade his son to speak.

King Robert turned back to his niece. He looked down at her and she was looking up to him with wide eyes of the same color as his own. He looked up to his brother and to that ugly wife of his but both were staring at their daughter like she was someone that they had never known before.

Robert Baratheon looked back down and the little girl gave a helpless smile in return.

"Your Grace, i am sorry for all that i had said and that it hurt you and angered the Queen so much. I am also really sorry that i hurt my dear royal Cousins, the Queens children with my words. I really did not wanted to hurt them. I do not know why i told my dreams here, i am really deeply sorry for saying things like about Edric and others here."

King Robert closed his eyes. This girl made him feel really uncomfortable.

Shireen looked then over to where the Queen stood, proud and snarling and undefeated like a lioness.

"I am sorry my Queen that my words were the reason that you are now hurting. I did not wanting that to happen, i want nothing bad to happen to you or your children."

Little Shireen Baratheon bowed her head to the Queen while she spoke those words. Queen Cerseis snarling got only more angry as reaction.

She looked to her husband, unafraid as it seemed, her brother had now stepped away from her and the Queen straightened herself while she spoke then with a clear and loud voice.

"I do not accept an apology for the madness of your disgusting lies that you just uttered here. Cleary you were touched in the head by your illness before and even though your scars are gone on the outside, what ever is wrong in your head is still there. Even a girl with your cleary lacking upbringing and even as young as your are, should know how to behave in the society of your betters.
By trying to lift yourself up above your Station by holding it against the Princes's and the Princess, that they have not the coloring of the King but of me their mother, you show cleary that your parents did not bring you up as a proper young Lady. You are not welcome here at the Royal Court."

The Queen ended her merciless words with an raised eyebrow while looking from Shireen to Selyse Baratheon. It was as if she wanted to show to the girls mother what she thought of her.

Clearly the Queen was already trying in her prideful way, to forget that just a few moments ago, she herself had behaved herself in a way that showed quite a lot more bad behavior, with all her screaming and disgusting words, than the King's niece could ever show with her nearly taunting but still innocently spoken words.

The Queen cleary being dismissive about the apology was not something that stilled the voices of the Courtiers and Ladys of the Court. Quite the opposite actually, the murmuring grew louder. In a dark corner a Spider lurked with a dangerous interest and not far from the Spider there was a Mockingbird that narrowed his calculating eyes.

The Lord Hand finally ended all that spectacle with firm words.

" Your Grace, with your permission, i would like to speak with you and Lord Baratheon in private. Cleary young Shireen was so excited about all that happened during the last weeks in her life and so exhausted by the journey that her mouth spoke words that her mind is cleary not meant to even think about in her young age.

We all should end the audience and find some calmness for the rest of the day."

As whenever a situation was needed to be brought to an end by calm spoken words, the King completely trusted his Hands advice and agreed with Lord Arryn.

The Royal Courtiers and Ladys were dismissed and King Robert went away with his Hand and former Fosterfather and with his unloved brother.

The Queen gave a sharp command to her sycophants to follow her and went away as proud as a Lioness on a hunt with her children following her. Prince Joffrey turned once back to Shireen with clear hatred to be seen on his face before he then followed his mother.

Shireen hadn't seen the faces of Myrcella and Tommen and it made her heart clench painfully while thinking about how much her words must have hurt the two younger children.