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Robert gives her a hard look. Cersei stares back at him, uncowed. Finally Robert turns and walks away. After an awkward glance at the Queen, Ned leads Robert toward one of Winterfell’s old towers.
INT. WINTERFELL - CRYPT STAIRS - DAY
Ned holds a lantern as he leads Robert down the narrow, winding stone steps.
ROBERT I thought we’d never get here. All the talk about my Seven Kingdoms... a man forgets your part is as big as the other six combined. (disbelief) It snowed on us! Snow!
As they descend, their breath becomes more and more visible from the cold, and Robert’s becomes more and more labored.
ROBERT How will you stand it, man, when winter finally comes? Your balls frozen right up into your guts for the next twenty, thirty years? NED The Starks will endure. We always have. ROBERT You need to come south, get a real taste of summer before it’s gone. Everyone is fat, drunk and rich. And the girls , Ned! Women lose all modesty in the heat. They swim naked in the river, right beneath the castle...
The king laughs happily, but his laughter trails off as the staircase ends.
INT. WINTERFELL - CRYPT - CONTINUOUS
Ned sweeps the lantern in a semicircle; shadows lurch along a procession of granite pillars that recede into the dark.
NED She’s down at the end, your Grace.
Side by side they proceed, their footsteps ringing off the stones as they walk among the dead of House Stark.
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