His demands were simply too high. The contract negotiation process was difficult to say the least.

According to Vulture, HBO has denied the return of Ser Pounce, Tommen’s kitty fancy man, to King’s Landing.

An HBO rep tells us that his royal meowness, whom the late Joffrey once threatened to skin alive and feed to his brother, doesn’t turn up in any of the six episodes remaining in season four, and that there’s “no word” yet on whether the blink-and-you’ll-miss-him feline will be back to guest-star on the show in future years.

This is tragic. Viewers haven’t been this excited by a new character since Oberyn. And if anything makes the internet forget about horrific rape, it’s little bitty kitty katz. SER POUNCE IS THE ONE TRUE KING.