Okay, now I’m so convinced the Maester conspiracy is real. Because they have so far done nothing really useful to help the king as his condition worsens. Can the SI heal him, I wonder? I think that he chose not to because his foes would’ve already had the Faith demonize him and grant all his opponents in the Vale a pretext to try to occupy his lands with their armies and kill him directly. If this is the case, he has to have a strategem in dealing with them all when and after the war finally occurs.