Ser Barristan Selmy is plotting with Skahaz mo Kandaq the shavepate to remove Hizdahr from power, on the grounds that he is probably going to kill the dragons and Dany won't like that. All that business with the Yunkai'i throwing the head of a hostage at the foot of King Hizdahr was, according to the shavepate, all pre-arranged between Hizdahr and the Yunkai'i to give Hizdahr reason to kill the dragons as demanded by the Yunkai'i, who are rightly afraid of them.
In other words, Hizdahr has been working for the Yunkai'i all along. Evidence against him includes his urging Dany to eat the locusts which turned out to be poisined.
Selmy gains access to Hizdahr's quarters in the middle of the night and challenges him on the locusts. He says it was the Dornishman who did it, but we know it was not (or at least, when we have been inside Quentyn's head he hasn't thought about it). He also challenges him on being in charge of the Sons of the Harpy, the terrorist group who were causing Dany all the trouble that caused her to marry Hizdahr in the first place.
Selmy kills Hizdahr's guard, then arrests him. Just then a boy turns up to announce the dragons have escaped. Uh oh!
We also get treated to some reminiscing. Selmy lost a tourney against Prince Rhaegar and so Rhaegar got to choose Lyanna Stark as the "queen of love and beauty". This is presumably how he started wooing her or whatever. Was he married to Elia at the time? Anyway, Selmy thinks if that hadn't happened, then not only might Robert Baratheon not have been annoyed causing him to usurp Mad King Aerys, but since he would have chosen Ashara had he won, she might not have had an affair with Ned Stark and thrown herself off a tower. This Ashara business has been mentioned before. Could she be Jon Snow's mother? Or is it, as Davos was told, some fisherman's daughter? Which tower did Ashara jump from?
Oh here it is, in Storm of Swords Arya is travelling with Edric "Ned" Dayne, the lord of Starfall, nephew of Lady Ashara. "She threw herself into the sea from atop the Palestone Sword." Because "her heart was broken". Because, "aunt Allyria says Lady Ashara and your father fell in love at Harrenhal". Or was it simply that, as in this chapter, "Ashara's daughter had been stillborn". Was the daughter also Ned's bastard? How many women did honourable Ned Stark have? According to Edric Dayne, Jon's mother is Wylla, who was Edric's wet nurse who had served the Daynes for years. Was her father a fisherman, or was she another notch on Ned's bedpost? Could there be other Stark bastards about?
