Whatever it was, if it existed at all, it had relieved Barnard's breathlessness and Mallinson's truculence; both had dined well, finding satisfaction in eating rather than talk.
Cersei liked that not at all. Nor was she pleased by the High Sparrow's endless truculence and ingratitude. " Where is the High Septon" ? she demanded of Raynard. " It was him I summoned" .
His first thought was that the man facing him from the hearth-rug was the very Duncan Vyse of old: small, starved, bleached-looking, with the same sidelong movements, the same queer air of anaemic truculence.