Before Varys had finished speaking, arrows whistled through the air.
"Open!" An eerie sound suddenly came from inside the room. The chain was still around Pycelle's neck.
But the old man vanished, along with the brains, death, and blood. In his place appeared a tall woman, her legs lengthening, her figure slender, Pycelle's chain hanging around her neck, with a beautiful, captivating face.
Varys's eyes nearly split open. "Pycelle."
Gendry turned nimbly and ducked behind a bookcase. Arrows embedded themselves in the shelves. Moving swiftly and deftly, he first cut off the maid's head with a single stroke.
"So you did come, you maggot in the dark!" Melisandre cursed. Then a cloud of black powder suddenly rose. The Little Birds closest to her clutched their throats and collapsed the moment they touched it.
Chapter 313: The Spider's doom
In Grand Maester Pycelle's room beneath the Rookery, cold wind swept through the window, and the smell of blood spread unchecked.
"How is this possible?" Varys watched the corpse of "Pycelle" transform before his eyes. Light and shadow interwove around the body, twisting and rippling constantly.
An eerie echo filled the room, crawling into their ears like maggots. Varys and Gendry did not hear the same word, and neither heard the word the Red Priestess had spoken.
The "Pycelle" who had died in his chair became a beautiful woman in red, young and full-figured, with a strange beauty, a heart-shaped face, copper-red hair, and mysterious red eyes. Only the Grand Maester's chain remained. After a puff of smoke, several Little Birds beside the Grand Maester's chair choked to death.
"You aren't Pycelle," Varys rasped. The Little Birds could only form two ranks, leaving them looking as though Gendry and the Red Priestess had surrounded them instead. The color drained from Varys's round,