The Braavos Info Dump in TWoW (Spoilers Extended)

Background

A couple days ago, I posted The Ghost Hill Info Dump in TWoW, regarding all the information that the Toland's share with Arianne and Co. as they travel across Dorne towards the Stormlands in TWoW, Arianne I. In that same thought, I thought it would be interesting to do the same thing with the information that Harys Swyft's guardsmen discuss in TWoW, Mercy I

If interested: Let's talk about Braavos in The Winds of Winter

If we remember, Ser Hary Swyft has been sent to Braavos as an envoy:

Ser Kevan told his good-father. "You had best prepare to go to Braavos."

Ser Harys did not look happy at the prospect. "If I must. But I say again, this trouble is not of my doing." -ADWD, Epilogue

he also has recently hired more guards:

Ser Harys Swyft tugged at his chin beard. "I am in need of guards myself. These are perilous times." -ADWD, Epilogue

and:

"Hire the Mountain's men," Ser Kevan suggested. "Red Ronnet will have no further use for them." He did not think that Mace Tyrell would be so clumsy as to try to murder either Pycelle or Swyft, but if guards made them feel safer, let them have guards. -ADWD, Epilogue

If interested: Fate of the Mountain's Men

and while Harys is with one of the Famed Courtesans of Braavos (the Black Pearl of famed valyrian lineage), 2 of his guards (one of them being Raff), are outside talking in the Common Tongue:

The envoy from the Seven Kingdoms had taken two of his guards into his box to stand behind him and the Black Pearl, but the other two had been posted just outside the door to make certain he was not disturbed. They were talking quietly in the Common Tongue of Westeros as she slipped up silently behind them in the darkened passage. That was not a language Mercy knew.

so as the guards discuss in a language that "Mercy" doesn't understand GRRM drops these bits of information:

LemonGate

GRRM reminds the reader again that lemons don't grow in Braavos:

“Seven hells, this place is damp,” she heard her guard complain. “I’m chilled to the bones. Where are the bloody orange trees? I always heard there were orange trees in the Free Cities. Lemons and limes. Pomegranates. Hot peppers, warm nights, girls with bare bellies. Where are the bare-bellied girls, I ask you?”

“Down in Lys, and Myr, and Old Volantis,” the other guard replied. He was an older man, big-bellied and grizzled. “I went to Lys with Lord Tywin once, when he was Hand to Aerys. Braavos is north of King’s Landing, fool. Can’t you read a bloody map?”

If interested: I See a Red Door but I'm Not Painting it Black

Gold for the Queen

I will note hear that this chapter has been revised over and over. Starting from when Arya was supposed to be 5 years older. With that in mind it is possible that the quote below is an overlooked detail that has not been changed yet (although I believe GRRM mentioned not wanting to revise it more). But it states the queen (which one?) will have his head. The general thought hear is Cersei has won her trial:

“How long do you think we’ll be here?”

“Longer than you’d like,” the old man replied. “If he goes back without the gold the queen will have his head. Besides, I seen that wife of his.

If interested: The Current Situation in King's Landing & The King's Landing Trials: A Deal & a Trial of the Seven

Gregor Clegane

While Raff and (likely) one of the other former Mountain's men discuss Swyft and something about this comment just makes me think that their loyalties don't completely lie with Ser Harys if something where to happen:

Besides, I seen that wife of his. There’s steps in Casterly Rock she can’t go down for fear she’d get stuck, that’s how fat she is. Who’d go back to that, when he has his sooty queen?”

The handsome guardsman grinned. “Don’t suppose he’ll share her with us, afterward?”

“What, are you mad? You think he notices the likes of us? Bloody bugger don’t even get our names right half the time. Maybe it was different with Clegane.”

“Ser wasn’t one for mummer shows and fancy whores. When Ser wanted a woman he took one, but sometimes he’d let us have her, after. I wouldn’t mind having a taste of that Black Pearl. You think she’s pink between her legs?”

Mercy wanted to hear more, but there was no time.

We already know what Raff gets up to later in the chapter (think so?) and the potential trouble it will cause:

This would make trouble for the Sealord and the envoy with the chicken on his chest, she did not doubt.

If interested: The End of TWoW, Mercy

TLDR: Just a quick rundown on the potential plotpoints that Arya hears/Mercy can't understand through Harys Swyft's guardsmen (Raff the Sweeting and an unnamed guard; assuming they have correct info):

• LemonGate (GRRM doubles down again brining up the Braavos climate)
• Harys Swyft is in Braavos on behalf of a Queen (Cersei has very likely won her trial if this chapter doesn't get revised)
• The former Mountain's Men's a)don't want to be in Braavos and b) don't like working for Ser Harys as much as Gregor