The screen filled with a loop of Jon Snow’s dead eyes, blinking. Over and over. For ten minutes. No sound. Just blinking.
“User ‘Three_Eyed_Raven’ has entered the chat.”
“No,” Dany whispered, horrified. “What kind of story is this?”
Jorah never spoke of it again. But late at night, they’d find him staring at the laptop, whispering: “Just skip Meereen. Please. Just skip Meereen.” Game of Thrones Season 5.zip
“ERROR: Character_Arc.exe has stopped working. Sansa.dll not found. Replaced with ‘Suffering_Prop_v2.3.’ Continue?”
The screen went black. Then white. Then a single line of text appeared:
“The file is not corrupted. It is exactly as intended. You must watch every frame, even the ones that hurt. Especially the ones that hurt. That is the point.” The screen filled with a loop of Jon
“Skip it,” Dany repeated.
Tyrion finished his wine. “And that,” he said, “is why we read the books.”
Jorah Mormont, disgraced knight and reluctant tech-support for Exiled Royals, Inc., stared at the screen. The progress bar hadn’t moved in three hours. The file name glared at him like a curse: . No sound
Before anyone could answer, a new message appeared, typed by no hand they could see:
“Skip it,” Tyrion said.
Would you like to send a raven to the developers? [Y/N]
“It’s the Dothraki Sea bandwidth,” Daenerys said, sweeping into the tent. She was wearing her usual “I birthed dragons” expression. “It’s terrible this time of year.”
“We can’t,” Jorah growled. “If we skip, we lose the entire Sons of the Harpy subplot. Which, now that I think about it…”