Kyra sighed. "Gareth does help. It's really not so bad being in Highgarden, just very dull. Keeping ahead of Selester is a good game, but we always had so many better ones at home. You spoiled me." She grinned.
Her eyes brightened a bit as he mentioned her cousins. "Only if they are not needed. Or if you're wanting to punish them- I'm pretty sure Jemni would be suitably miserable." Kyra laughed. "I know I'm needed where I am, and that's more comfort than any of them would have if they were to stay with me. No, it's better to keep them where they are needed."
She frowned as he spoke of the princess. "That's what I thought as well... but I'm sure the wench was for the king's rooms. So is there more than one plot afoot, perhaps? Use one girl for one part, and some other cats paw for the other? Only, to be truthful, Baelor mustn't know of that other part because he'd never have managed to keep it all straight. He's brilliant with a sword but at something like this he'd be lost.
"If William Stark were king in truth what a grand game that would be. The Lannisters might press their claim this time, and if they got Dorne to join them... the Tullys will stay with the Starks but the Arryns and Baratheons might be moved...?" And in all the chaos, much could be moved about and overlooked.
On the other hand, there was the matter of checks and balances. There was little good negotiating with an enemy who had no reason to fear. "But Selester would be insufferably smug if he got to try his hand on Lord Stark's strings, and the Citadel..." Kyra made a face. "They're wretched fools in love with their own self-proclaimed importance." And they kept getting in her way. There was that too.