Sansa wakes up lamenting that she is all alone now, with everyone she cared about dead. Brella and Shae bathe her and dress her for breakfast with Cersei. The wedding is that night. Tyrion arrives with Podrick in tow and also gets ready for breakfast. At breakfast, Dontos and Moon Boy entertain, and Ser Balon and Ser Osmund guard the king. After breakfast, Cersei presents Joffrey with the wife's cloak he will give to Margaery, the same she wore when she married Robert and Joanna wore when she read Tywin. Next, Joffrey is presented with gifts, as it is tradition in the Reach to give presents to bride and groom on the morning of their wedding. Jalabhar Xho, Lady Tanda, Ser Kevan, Prince Oberyn, Ser Addam, Lord Mathis, Lord Paxter, Tyrion, Lord Mace, and Lord Tywin each present gifts. Joffrey is not impressed with Tyrion's gift, Lives of Four Kings, Grand Maester Kaeth's history of the reigns of Daeron I, Baelor, Aegon IV, and Daeron II. He adores Tywin's gift however, a Valyrian steel blade that he names Widow's Wail. Ser Addam warns him it is sharp, and Joffrey responds that he is no stranger to Valyrian steel and uses the blade to chop up Tyrion's gift. Ser Garlan tells him it was one of only four illuminated by Grand Maester Kaeth himself, and Joffrey merely responds that now there are three. He asks Tyrion for a better gift, and Tyrion suggests a Valyrian steel dagger with a dragonbone hilt, which leaves Joffrey speechless.¹

As Tyrion and Sansa leave breakfast, Oberyn and Ellaria fall in with them. Oberyn states he once saw the Citadel's copy of ''Lives'' and thought it was too kind to Viserys II, whom Oberyn says poisoned King Baelor and then ruled for just over a year without doing much of anything. Tyrion retorts that Baelor starved to death while fasting and that Viserys was an able Hand for fourteen years for both Daeron I and Baelor, essentially ruling the realm for both before taking the throne in his own right. He also comments that someone had to save the realm from Baelor. Sansa is shocked to hear Baelor criticized, as he is revered as the king who made peace with Dorne by walking barefoot down the Boneway and saved the Dragonkinght from a pit of vipers. Ellaria adds that while legend has Baelor escaping the snake pit unharmed due to his piety, he was actually bitten fifty times and should have died, and the venom may have been partially responsible for his later descent into madness. Oberyn asks how Tyrion accounts for Joffrey since there are no vipers about, and Tyrion abruptly ends the conversation. Tyrion and Sansa get in their litter, and Tyrion asks Sansa if there was any bad blood between Joffrey and Bran, to which Sansa responds there was not.¹ Tyrion tells her he never hurt Bran and does not want to hurt her either.