Of course your grace Tywin said dutifully truth be told he was in agony to be leaving his wife and daughter , but he also knew that this was what he had spent his whole life preparing for . From the days of playing the Blackfyre conflicts with Lucky in the courtyard , to his training to become a great knight , it was all in preperation for this day . The day he would need to defend his king in country from a foreign threat , and no greater threat had ever existed in his lifetime then this business with the slavers . The wind blew and the waves lapped up against the docks as another light snow fell around the two . Your grace , if I can ask a candid question ? He wondered if he ' d get the truth , or if even the King knew , Tywin was on no small councils , he had no ravens or spies or little birds , so he hoped his King would fill him in on the details of their mission .