Chapter Sixty-One - The Griffin Reborn - A Dance with Dragons | A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF)

Jon Connington retakes his ancestral home, pines for Rhaegar, plots his next move, and hopes that a splash of cheap plonk will keep the greyscale at bay. Simon and Mackelly celebrate the Westerly motion.

Chapter Review:
Jon Connington and the Golden Company successfully retake Griffin’s Roost. It wasn’t hard, security has become lax. Not all of the ships that set out have arrived, so the force is split between those liberating stormlands holdfasts and keeps, and those waiting at the intended landing site for stragglers. Prince Aegon is there.

It’s nice to be home, but Connington is plagued by memories of Rhaegar, and how he failed his prince. He vows to do better by the son. His next aim is the considerably more ambitious target of Storm’s End. He sends for Aegon.

\The prince arrives with more men and a few elephants that have arrived. The local holdfasts have all fallen easily but because no banners have flown no actionable intelligence should be getting out. Connington writes to Dorne announcing the news of Aegon’s return. The young prince is determined to be in the vanguard when they attack Storm’s End.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Aegon Targaryen - Teenage nephew of Danaerys. Believed murdered in the sack of King’s Landing.
Jon Connington - exiled lord of Westeros. Loyal to the Targaryens. Raised young Griff as his foster child.
Homeless Harry Strickland - Commander of the Golden Company
Golden Company - Essos based company of sellswords. Trace their lineage back to the Blackfyre rebels. 
Battle of the Bells - Fought at Stony Sept in the early days of Robert’s Rebellion.
Griffin’s Roost - Seat of house Connington, in the Stormlands.
Storm’s End - impregnable seat of house Baratheon in the Stormlands.