His daughter had been meant to be murdered here in this rotten and corrupt Palace of his own brother. His daughter, his only child was meant to die from poison here.

Lord Stannis Baratheon gnashed his teeth together till his jaws hurt while he thought about these things. Ser Barristan told his tale after he arrived in the Solar of the Hand with Shireen by his side. The Kingsguard was a careful man and had wanted to guard Stannis's daughter inside the family's own rooms but as the White Guard told his King, the Hand and Lord Stannis himself, little Lady Shireen had asked him to bring her to her father and that was what Ser Barristan then did.

And now, Stannis thought to himself, now he was sitting here with his daughter by his side, his already drunk brother sitting opposite of him and the Lord Hand sitting between them, grewing paler with each of Ser Barristans words.

For it was only the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard who told what happened, Shireen was quiet. His daughter said nothing and just leaned close to him. Lord Stannis was not a man that was used to give anyone hugs, he could admit that to himself but in this moment, he hugged his daughter close to himself. Stannis enjoyed it to feel her in his arms, alive and breathing and warm. His daughter, his heir.

He just wanted to ask the Kingsguard a question about any possible proofs about the person behind this attempt on Shireens life , when Robert heaved himself out of his chair, stumbled a bit but then stepped forward to his White Guard.

"You tell me that someone wanted to do this to my niece?" And the bitch that brought that did not even told the name after she swallowed the poison? Why didn't you forced her then, heh?"

"Yes your Grace." answered the White Guard. He did not say why he did nothing to force a confession out of the servant woman though.

The King turned to his brother and his niece and narrowed his eyes slightly but then turned back to his Lord Commander and gave order to search the whole Keep for any proofs.

Lord Baratheon of Dragonstone felt thankful and annoyed at the same time, the most thoughts were about Shireen herself though and how he as her father would protect her from everything here in this treacherous Keep.

And so both, Lord Arryn and Stannis nodded to the King's command even though they knew that whoever had planned this murder attempt was surely smarter thab the servant woman and had likely made all proofs disappear before they could be found.

"No."

All men looked to the small girl after she had spoken that word.

"No, just ignore this now. All four of you have to forget it for now. It would be better if all your bastards would come here, your Grace, as soon as possible, here into the Red Keep and live with us all."

She looked up to her father and then to the King and then to her father again.

All of them looked to the small girl and she just looked solemnly into each of the four men's faces.

"No, don't search for the people behind the poison either but let them come to me instead. Let those who want to see me dead, come close again and make a new attempt and then stop them then."

All the men looked with shock to the small girl after hearing these words.

And her reaction got her Uncle thinking later about all which had happened in the last few days.

This girl unnerved him for she got him thinking, she got him to remember that he had children outside of this damned Keep.

And she got him thinking about the children that the goldenhaired bitch had born him, his legal children and heirs who all three looked nothing like him. Well at least the younger two ones were nicely behaving ones, the oldest one came clearly after his bitch of a mother.

But all three had really nothing from him and he started to wonder if Stannis 's little girl had unknowingly spoke of something that smelled like the betraying golden shits and their games.

He scoffed at the thought of Stannis and his girl. Bloody serious, just like her father, this little girl was. Healed by the Gods if Stannis told the truth about that and he reminded himself that his younger brother was never shy of speaking the truth, no matter how unpleasant or how misplaced it was.

Alright, the girl came after her father in that, just like she came after him lookswise even with her mother's ears. Shame for the little girl though that her father was such an ugly fuck.

Hahahaha...

She came after her father lookswise, just like he and her father and Renly came after their father and just like his girl back in the Vale and the boy he had made in Stannis's wedding bed, came after him, the King himself.

And the children of the goldenhaired bitch had nothing from him, nothing.

He crushed the cup in his hands, it was empty anyways and he thought of how he would crush the neck of his wife if the thoughts that now entered his mind, showed themselves to be true.
If she really cuckolded him...if she really did that and not only once but often enough for three children born that came not from him, then he would slaughter every Lion he could get his hands on.

He felt the bloodlust awakened again in his body, he fletched his teeth and felt alive again. Like back then, back when he killed the damned Dragon, he felt his pulse racing and his heart beating with power, like when he was young and fighting for his life and for Lyanna.

She wouldn't have betrayed him, he knew that, she wouldn't have done what this Lionbitch did to him.

He roared his bloodlust out into the empty room and his fists smashed everything around him. If the bitch and her goldshitting father had really betrayed him then he would grind their bones to Pulp like he did with Lyanna's murderer.

His was the Fury and he felt alive again.