Bitterbridge

Word of the split traveled fast.

Ravens outpaced horse, and by the time Renly's banners reached Bitterbridge, the ink was still wet on Stannis' orders.

Renly read the message with a smile that hid strain.

To let his brother strangle Storm's End unopposed would be weakness.

Gregor Clegane swept through the baggage train like a storm tearing roofs from houses.

What had been a host of forty thousand shrank to chaos.

Renly himself was caught in the press near Bitterbridge, bright cloak tangled in the mud.

His household knights ringed and dying one by one.

Then and now, goods flow from all over Planetos, Essos in particular, into the ports at King's Landing, many of which are then distributed elsewhere in Westeros.

A cargo would be put in a baggage train for the short journey to Tumbleton, then a trading barge would float down the Mander all the way to Highgarden, potentially stopping at Cider Hall, Bitterbridge or Longtable along the way.

Or it could turn upriver to a different branch of the Mander and arrive at Golden Grove or Ashford Meadow, or even exit the Mander near Highgarden and sail south to Oldtown or north to Lannisport.

The reverse trip would require oars or sails and is not quite as easy, but nevertheless commonly done.

Like, what? Why? Why has this happened? Like, it was a good scene, but at the same time, it's just so unearned.

Because they cut the Honeywine, because they cut Bitterbridge, Daeron has not done the things that earned him the moniker Daeron the Daeron.

To become a knight at this point with that moniker, with that title, Daeron the Daeron, is completely unearned.

And it annoys me.

A mixed force of Riverland and Northmen are split off from Robb's army and march with Catelyn and a few Lordlings.

But while the army marches through the Stormlands, Catelyn breaks off to meet with Renly at Bitterbridge.

However, their negotiations fall apart as Renly refuses to accept Stannis' claim, even with the North and Riverlands backing him.

The youngest Baratheon is confident in his ability to defeat them, as he still outnumbers them with the Tyrells by his side.