"Yet his strongest supporters are but a shadow of what they once were. His Hightower uncle refuses to leave Oldtown, the Redwynes are but an empty husk after the reavers broke the Arbour, and Fossoway lost most of its strength in King's Landing," The Lord of Bronzegate curtly countered. "And the little lion poached two of his strongest bannermen, yet Garlan did nothing but wait. For all the squabbling between the Riverlands and the Westerlands, most of it has been a few bloody skirmishes with scarcely half a dozen men dead."