Snow Ghost [Jaime Lannister]

Chapter IX. Betrothal

Jaime POV

In my chamber, I sit on my bed thinking of my relationship with Cersei, and her children and now Father wants me to be the lord. A thing I do not want to ask for, my power, my sword, I need power more than becoming Castlery Rock lord. I lived all my life close to Targaryens and their guards, I lived in the red keep, what? leaving all these behind me and going back to the West again.

There knocks on my door and I open it before I say anything and Tywin Lannister walks in "You are awake" he closes the door "Why did you not come and have your breakfast with us?"

I stand "I ate here, North did not suit me at all"

Tywin takes a sit "It will suit you perfectly when you become the lord here"

I take another chair "How?"

"From Ville to the Wall will be yours"

I think a little and give him my usual lazy grin "An offer that I do not want to take, I am a free man"

"No man is free. Only children" he snaps "And fools think elsewise."

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Lyanna POV

I gather myself and take a deep breath, I smile at my wolf patting her "Everything will be good, let us take a walk" I denial all my feelings and bury them inside me. I make my way among the dark tree trunks, their twisted branches weaving a dense canopy over my head. I hold a winter rose.

I reach a small grove at the center of the wood, where an ancient weirwood tree broods over a small, black pool.

Looking like no tree on Earth, the weirwood's bark is bone white, and its leaves dark red. Long, long ago, a melancholy face was carved into its trunk; its deep-cut eyes are red with dried sap.

They seem to follow me as I round the tree. Seated on a moss-covered stone on the other side of the tree, Jaime watches the stars in the dark sky, I look at the black waters at his feet "Raya, what are you doing here?"

I sigh crossing my arms to my chest "Actually, What are you doing here?"

Jaime pats the stone "Sit" I look at him for a moment and then sit "What bothers you?"

I gather myself "We are getting married"

Jaime laughs "We are getting married"

I laugh "A joke right"

Jaime nods "Very, I swear an oath, I do not want to break it"

I look at him sadly "I do not want to leave here"

Jaime sighs "I know" he smiles and then looks at the sky "It is a beautiful night and the moon is shining like crystal"

I look at the moon and smile as the air heats my face "Very shining"

Jaime smiles "I heard looking at the full moon makes you crazy so do not stare more"

I turn to him "Who told you this stupid story, let me tell you the story"

Jaime smiles "Tell me"

"In the beginning, the god sun fell in love with the goddess moon and then married, they loved each other deeply beyond the stars and worlds, and no one could not tear them apart" Jaime stares into my eyes "Even the gods, the new and old even the Valryans and the fire ones too"

I smile and space in my thoughts while telling him "All the gods gather wondering what their love could make, that will not create the world they want but what the sun and the moon want"