The Stinking Puddle in front of the Great Sept's square had already been cleared away in short order. People paid less attention to the other areas.
King Gendry was here, and glory was here.
Randyll Tarly, Garlan Tyrell, and the others sent troops to clear the Honeywine's western bank, the City Hall ruins, and the streets and alleys.
As for the Honeywine's eastern bank, Gendry had already ordered Rosso Brune and Yohn Royce to send men to clear it.
The Hightower, too, was surrounded on all sides.
Gendry sat in a folding camp chair, with Daenerys beside him.
Next came the White Knights, arranged in two lines to protect the king on either side.
In the square stood three Iron Islands Kneelers, representing three great houses.
The Starry Great Sept was Oldtown's landmark, though it had later lost its glory to the Great Sept of Baelor. Its facilities were extensive, and the square could hold many people.
Dragonfire blazed along the edges of the square, burning corpses and Euron Crow's Eye's Wicked Banner.
The Magic Dragons even flew into the square and fed directly on the Ironborn corpses.
Their own people would receive dignified treatment, while the Ironborn were simply burned or eaten by the Magic Dragons. Many Ironborn lords had their heads mounted on spearpoints.
Euron Crow's Eye's sinister Silence was carefully inspected over and over, then dismantled.
"Euron Crow's Eye plundered a great deal of treasure," Gendry said, even discounting the wealth that had been scattered.
There were still heaps of jewels aboard Euron Crow's Eye's Silence, and Gendry tested them once more with magical flames.
"Yes, Your Grace. When Silence returned, her holds were filled with treasure: gilded plates, pearls, emeralds the size of eggs, rubies and sapphires, and bags of coins too heavy for anyone to