Rhapsodies

I’ve been trying to avoid scenes that merely consists of two people talking to each other. This scene, with Renly telling Ned to strike before the rest of the palace knew King Robert was dead, fit this description. But there was enough drama to work with so I went with it.

It also gave me an opportunity to work on my take on Renly Baratheon. As I pointed out here, he is much more impressive in the books or at least the first book.  I tried to capture the look that reminded Ned of Robert in his prime.

“Strike! Now, while the castle sleeps.” Renly looked back at Ser Boros again and dropped to an urgent whisper.