-- For a moment, she disbelieved his doubt. How could he not know? Naively, she assumed Ser Duncan must be a champion of the children in Flea Bottom. A hero to aspire to, much like the Dragonknight might be to any high-born boy. But it had never occurred to her the children of Flea Bottom might not know the real from the recited.

"He lived, certainly. And his squire was to be Aegon the Fifth -- Ser Duncan became the Lord Commander of his Kingsguard and the king honoured him greatly when he named his heir after the knight. Some heroes are only pretty fables and stories," and that I know too well, "but he lived. He truly did."