Loras & Jaime Scene, don't understand

[ratataDK]

Hi there

There's a scene I don't understand.

Page 351 (in my paperback edition of the second part) Loras speaking about Brienne:

"I asked him why he kept her close, if he thought her so grotesque. He said that all his other knights wanted things of him, castles or honors or riches, but all Brienne wanted was to die for him. When I saw him all bloody with her fled and the three of them unharmed...if she's innocent, then Robar and Emmon..." He could not seem to say the words.

Jaime had not stopped to consider that aspect of it. "I would have done the same, ser." The lie came easy, but Ser Loras seemed grateful for it.

When he was gone, the Lord Commander sat alone in the white room, wondering. The Knight of Flowers has been so mad with grief for Renly that he had cut down two of his own Sworn Brothers, but it has never occurred to Jaime to do the same with the five who had failed Joffery.

For some reason I'm missing the point. He could not seem to say the words. What words? "I would have done the same, ser." The lie came easy... done what?

[WinnerChxDinner]

Robar and Emmon were the 2 Rainbow guard Loras killed in rage after Renly's death. He thought they let the killer go. That's what Jaime is referring to when he says "I would have done the same."

Loras realized if Brienne was innocent, then Robar and Emmon were too.

[ratataDK]

ahh, thank you! i just got confused because on the previous page, Loras says that Emmon swore Brienne did it, so i figured Emmon was not slain (since he was able to swear) but he was of course just killed afterwards. Funny such a little misunderstanding could make the scene total gibberish to me :)

[WinnerChxDinner]

Emmon swore Brienne did it as he was dying I think.