Chapter Sixty-Five - Cersei 2 - A Dance with Dragons | A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF)

Cersei does the walk of shame through King’s Landing. Mackelly and Simon wistfully recall their college days.

Chapter Review:
Queen Cersei Lannister is shaved (all over) and must walk through the streets of King’s Landing, from the Great Sept of Baelor to the Red Keep to atone for the cherry-picked sins that she has confessed to. She’s a lion and won’t be cowed. 

She keeps her eyes on the Red Keep and the promise of seeing her son King Tommen again as the crowd pelt her with insults and rotten flora and fauna. She stumbles, slips in excrement, and sees faces from her past in the crowd. Eventually the abuse takes its toll and she realizes that she has made a fatal mistake. This crowd of baying peasants will never again see and fear her as the queen. WIth this she breaks and runs, then crawls the rest of the way.

But she is met by Qyburn and the newly appointed Kingsguard brother Ser Robert Strong - all 8ft of him. Suddenly she feels a great wash of relief. Her chances to prove her innocence in the trial by combat have just increased meteorically. 

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Cersei Lannister - Dowager Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. Mother to King Tommen.
Tommen Lannister - Younger son of Cersei and King of the Seven Kingdoms.
Kevan Lannister - Uncle to Cersei, King regent.
Lancel Lanniser - Son of Kevan, former lover of Cersei. Now a convert to the militant branch of the Faith of the Seven.
Qyburn - Disgraced maester of the citadel. Ally to Cersei.
Margaery Tyrell - Wife to King Tommen. Despised by Cersei.
Ser Robert Strong - new member of the Kingsguard. The size and shape of the now (believed) dead Mountain (Gregor Clegane).