pleaded that she'd been far from Westeros when he allied himself with Robert Baratheon's heirs and so they had not been disloyal to her. Margaery could almost feel the heat of dragon's breath on her skin. She wanted to hold hands with her brothers, but she would not cower before all the eyes of the court. House Tyrell would be proud to the last.

However, their sentence was a shock. All the lords and ladies watching gasped as the queen decreed their fates. Mace Tyrell would retain Highgarden and remain lord paramount of the Reach, though some of their lands would be taken way and they were to pay a large sum of gold to the crown. Willas would remain heir, but Loras was ordered to go to theWall and take the black. As for Margaery herself, queen to three kings, she was to stay at court as a lady-in-waiting to Daenerys. Although not a pardon, it was a generous sentence indeed.

Margaery said a silent prayer of thanks to the Seven. She might have to spend years licking the queen's arse, literally, but she was alive and so were her family. House Tyrell would rise again to greatness in time.