"Uncle Oberyn!" Arianne cried out involuntarily.
"Let him go, Cersei, you madwoman!" Obara Sand roared in fury.
Quentyn's expression also turned extremely grim. He raised a hand, signaling the army to halt its attack.
A fierce exchange of insults began across the distance.
Arianne and Quentyn sternly demanded that Cersei release the prisoners at once.
Cersei furiously cursed the Dornish for their treachery, accusing them of selling her daughter Myrcella to the Easterners.
Arianne angrily retorted that this was pure slander and that Dorne had never done such a thing.
"Lies! You lying Targaryen dogs!"
Cersei did not believe her at all. She roared hysterically, "Just wait until you have to collect their bodies!"
The presence of Oberyn and Ellaria left Quentyn and Arianne afraid to act.
No matter how Young Griff's messengers urged them, Arianne and Quentyn firmly refused to order an assault.
Outside Rosby, inside Young Griff's tent.
Young Griff pounded the table in extreme anger.
Young Griff sneered, "My queen actually refused me. How ridiculous."
Harry Strickland, commander of the Golden Company, grimly reminded him from beside him, "Your Grace, do not put too much trust in the Dornish. They care more about their own prince than your Iron Throne."
Just as the stalemate continued.
At Rosby, Kevan Lannister had not stood idly by while Duskendale was besieged.
He keenly seized the opportunity offered by the Dornish hesitation over Oberyn. One night, he personally led Rosby's thirty thousand defenders in a sudden breakout, attempting to punch through the besieging troops and return to relieve Duskendale.
Young Griff and Jon Connington hurriedly deployed troops to intercept him, only to come under a surprise attack in the hills northeast of Rosby from Jaime-
Lannister's elite troops, who had long been lying in ambush.
The Lannister army used the terrain