(Game of Thrones) The Weirwood Wolf

(7) Dealing with Weasels

(POV Jon Snow )

We sat in the tent waiting for Lady Stark to return from negotiations with Walder Frey. Thorin and Robb where talking about what they thought Lord Freys price will be, both thought it would be to high. But I was lost in thought I was still trying to process what I learned from Lord Reed a few weeks past.

The meeting started of normally, Robb requested Lord Reed send his Son and Daughter to Winterfell to be with Bran and then after he agreed he told us about how he was there at the tower of joy with Father. He also said that he was there on the journey, he said that if I wanted he could tell me who my mother was.

And so he told me, told me of my father and his relationship with Ashara Dayne at Harrenhall, how he planned to marry her. He told me of how father had to marry Lady Stark in his brothers place and of the Tower of Joy and the fight with Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword in the Morning how father killed him.

He then spoke of how he returned to Starfall with Dawn and told the lord where to find Ser Arthur's bones, how he went to Ashara to tell her the news personally and how he found out that she was pregnant and had just given birth to a son though there was meant to be a daughter as well, but she was born still born.

He told me of how she begged that Ned take me and how in her grief from loosing her daughter, her close friend Elia and her brother she threw her self from a tower. After that meeting me and my brothers went to the Godswood and I cried for a mother and a sister that I will never Know.

It was then the tent opened and Lady Stark entered, she didn't look at me, she hasn't really acknowledged me since Thorin shouted at her for trying to send me to the Nights Watch instead of fostering, he had never shouted at her before mad hasn't since but my brothers fury is a sight to behold and so she ignores me.

"Mother what are his terms." Robb asked

"Steep, as we knew they would be." She replied

"Stop stalling mother and tell us." Came Thorin's inpatient reply

"He wants his son for both of your squires, a marriage of one of his daughters to Thorin, one of his grandsons for Arya and two grandsons fostered at Winterfell, he also said that he'll 'give a rivers for your snow' as he put it." She listed the many demands.

"Dam him! Dam him and his stupid bridge to the seven hells!" Robb said in frustration

"Brother, give me one hundred Mormont men I will give you the Twins." Thorin said to Robb

"What's your plan brother." I asked him and he told us

"If your sure this will work, then we'll be waiting for the sound of your horn." Robb told him

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I'd scouted ahead with Synin for a week we had been sitting outside that Gods forsaken castle until the Old Weasel decided to give his outrageous terms, so I knew every crevice of the castle by now so I also knew where it was easiest to climb.

So when the moon was high in the sky we rowed out and scaled the walls. I went first, I climbed to a window that has been open for the whole week we had been camped out side in fact the room I chose hadn't been opened since we got here. It was a large room but it was in disrepair.

Once I was in I took the rope ladder tied around me, I attached the hooks to the walls and threw the ladder down. Slowly the room began to fill until everyone was in and we could barely move.  I threw open the door and rushed out my sword, Kingmaker in one hand, the Mormont men followed each with a sword or spear in one hand and a shield with the Black bear on a green field proudly displayed.