Oh how Cersei is becoming the archetypical evil queen. At one point she even cackles with laughter.
Word has reached Kings Landing of the capture of the Shield Islands by Ironmen with a bazillion ships! I don't think it was quite that many, but whatever. It's a problem. The trouble is Cersei does not want to release troops and ships from besieging Dragonstone and Storm's End in order to defend The Reach and Highgarden. The Tyrells are anxious about this. In the end Loras the Flower Knight says he will go and end the seige at Storm's End himself to release the ships and troops. Cersei thinks this silly gallantry will probably be the end of Loras and she thinks this is wonderful. Oh dear.
She also doesn't believe the intelligence about the Ironmen's strategy of sailing far from the coast, preferring to think Willas Tyrell is stupid because crippled and did not man his watchtowers. This we know to be not true. More evidence of Cersei's foolishness.
She also thinks Stannis is working with the Ironmen. Again, not true. Cersei is becoming increasingly detached from reality. She has no clue about naval warfare, thinking some fishing boats and river boats can attack the Ironmen. And little care for strategy, being happy for the Tyrell forces to lose battles or drown in the sea.
She is ignoring Pycelle's advice. He thinks giving the Septon an army is madness. She thinks he's just babbling about old dead history.
There is some scheme involving Qyburn and armor that is too heavy for a normal man. Is he making some kind of Frankenstein's monster with all his vivisection?
Speaking of which, it turns out Balman Selmy, who she asked to get rid of Bronn, challenged Bronn to single combat and lost. Now lady Felyse is here, and is injured and traumatised and might just spill the beans that killing Bronn was Cersei's idea. So naturally Cersei hands her over to Qyburn for some vivisection.
Stupid and evil. Come to think of it, Cersei is probably going to do well in Westeros.
Oh, and Cersei has exactly one friend, Lady Merryweather. So she plays around with her feelings by getting intimate and then rejects her advances and pretends nothing happened. Something else to go wrong later, then.
