Once people got used to the idea that a make-believe emperor lived among them, most of them actually seemed to enjoy the pretense. Nothing wrong there, either. Later that day, as she sat at Lord Hoster's bedside with a book, reading thesame passage over and over, she heard the sound of loud voices and a trumpet'sblare. Very ugly, you mean.
Aerys was mad and cruel, no one has ever denied that. There wasa shadow. This was a cheaper, sweeter solution than building and maintaining fleets of fusion reactors. But even that modest step brought danger.
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