“He closed his third eye and opened the other two, the old two, the blind two.”

“Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “Egg, I dreamed that I was old.”

“In his dreams Jaime always had two hands; one was made of gold, but it worked just like the other.”

“His lips look like two worms fucking.”

“But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.”

“Two hearts that beat as one.”

“A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes,” the Mountain declared. “Cut them out and give them to your next outrider. Tell him you hope that four eyes might see better than two . . . and if not, the man after him will have six.”