Tyrion was forcefully pressed to the chopping block and he wondered how it all went so wrong. Way had been his mistake? How did he so thoroughly fail at the game of thrones?

This must have been what Ned was thinking when his own time came. The sword was nearly prepared to swing when a new prisoner arrived.

"Who's this boy?" The north man asked.

"That's no boy," Tyrion said with a new sense of hope. "That's a true lion."