The gallows had been raised ten feet off the ground. Two spearmen were posted at the foot of the steps. " You can't go up without Ser Ryman's leave, " one told Jaime.
Better that than die alone, she thought, but her cousin Quenton killed the spearman before he reached her. A heartbeat later another bush killed Quenton, driving an axe into the base of his skull.
Tyrion advanced his spearmen. Qavo replied with his light horse. Tyrion moved his crossbowmen up a square and said, " The red priest outside seemed to think Volantis should fight for this silver queen, not against her" .
Capilano himself was without a rival as a spearman. He knew the moods of the Fraser River, the habits of its thronging tenants, as no other man has ever known them before or since.