The Lannister Wolf Series

Two

Evelyn felt like those eavesdropping intruders who hide in the shadows and are the ones who hear and see all and magically spring from the crowd to reveal the deep dark truth that no one but the murderer knew. She sat perched like a gargoyle atop a high ledge of the keep of Kings landing. If she had bothered to measure the climb that she had made three hours prior when no one was awake, she would have discovered that the perch was roughly two hundred feet above the unsuspecting wedding party that was taking place below in the gentle shade of the decorated courtyard. Even at this height with her enhanced hearing on the off-switch Evelyn could hear the bratty whines of Joffrey and the screeching complaints of his mother.

Evelyn tried to block out there aggravating and bloodcurdling voices but do too who everyone was talking to, her options of conversations to eavesdrop on were limited to either Cersei and Jeffrey, Maya reprimanding her brother for making cute eyes at Oberyn Martell , her voice laced with jealousy or Nanteza glumly trying to convince Lillia to join in on the dancing. Evelyn knew that something was coming, and she needed to ensure that at least one of the girls knew that something would transpire in the next few minutes.

She selected her target as Maya since there was a perfectly shaped carnation flower lying on the table near the girl, a gift of goodwill that Loras had requested Maya deliver to Lillia but knowing the blonde's response, the Tyrell girl had purposely forgotten such a request. Evelyn concentrated her acute site on the tauntingly purple flower. Didn't Loras know by now that Lillia despised purple?

She imagined the flower gradually burning, beginning at the long green stem and trailing up before began to eat at each pedal from the route to the tip before it crumpled into a pile of black ash. Evelyn resisted the urge to smirk when Maya squeaked at the sight of the burning flower and hastily doused it. The poor blossom was 3/4 burnt already. Maya was distracted by a certain Prince, so her reaction time was off.

The red-haired girl lifted her ocean blue eyes and looked around, already knowing that Evelyn was close by due to the Stark girls earlier visit to the brothel where she had a chat with Maya. The girl stopped her searching when her eyes landed on the dark shape of Evelyn crouched among the pigeons and doves like a demon among Angels ... a Wolf among Lions... Winter among the summer. Maya's eyes widened before she looked around to make sure no one was nearby before she whispered something that only Evelyn's keen ears could detect.

"what you had said earlier about something happening ... it is going to happen soon isn't it?"

In response to the girl's question, Evelyn relit the carnation on fire before Maya doused it once more.

"I'll take that as a yes. You said there would be drastic effects because of this... event. Is there a way to prevent any terribly drastic effects? After Stannis's murder and what happened to your family, if there is another thunder story, it will not just be cats and dogs pelting from the skies but arrows and blood. The world is already on the brink of a worldwide war. All the scale needs are another gram to tip the scale." Mya muttered, disguising her moving lips behind an Apple she held poised.

In response the carnation caught fire again and Maya groaned as she lifted the flower and placed it in her full wineglass to keep it from catching fire again . "Okay I get it. Just let the flower be! It's already as dead as a rock!"

The words were barely out of maya's mouth when Cersei ear ripping voice screeched like a vulture that had found a dead carcass ... But this scratch was that a vulture finding a carcass without meat. Evelyn watched as Maya, Lillia and Nanteza left their feet and like a gazelle, Lillia moved to the side of the fallen Joffrey who was going purple in the face and it was crowded by a shocked and horrified Jaime and screaming Cersei. Evelyn proudly watched as Lillia used the lessons of Lynn had given her via the pinnacle on how to draw poison from the body using certain crushed herbs shoved into the oral cavity . Sadly, for Joffrey, his throat had already closed due to the poison and he vomited the concoction up much to Cersei's despair for her screams intensified tenfold.