The Finding of Lya Stark

Escape

I peak out behind Lady moving so I'm more next to her burying my hand in her fur. The four men look uneasy taking in the huge direwolf by my side. "How did Lord Twyin Lannister know I was here?" I ask feeling suspicious of the four of them. They are dressed in Lannister red bearing the sigil of Jaime's family but there's no way they were sent directly here to save me. Tywin would/should have been more concerned for his son.

"He didn't. We were just searching for you and happened to find you here."

"And how are you four going to protect me from my family's army. Well, actually you'll need to protect yourselves from my family's army."

"There's more of us." My grip on Lady's fur tightens as three more men with bows step out from behind trees.

"So there's seven of you?" I ask. I had held my own against several men once before but this was seven of them. I might have Lady on my side but I wasn't sure how well we would fare, and I couldn't just surrender to them either. Who knew what they would do to me.

I allow my hand to fall from Lady's fur to rest on my sword. "There's more of us," the man who seems to lead them says eyeing us shifting slightly. He clears his throat and Lady lowers her head growling louder menacingly. There's a crack of a twig behind me and I turn drawing my sword seeing three men standing there.

"If you're here to protect me why do you seem so hostile?" I ask as they shift seeing they were caught.

"We figured you wouldn't want to come with us, I hear behind me and we saw this beast with you." One in front of me goes to attack so I defend myself easily going on the attack and they shift trying harder seeing I'm better than they thought. Another joins him and I can hear the snarling of Lady and shouting of the men behind me.

There's a whistling noise and then a searing pain on the right side of my chest. My hand falls down and I can't lift my arm. I grab my sword from the hand and hold it up in front of me gritting my teeth. I can see an arrow protruding through my body and try to ignore it. The Lannister men didn't want to hurt me, I could tell they just wanted to incapacitate me. It hadn't been working before but now the most I can do is block their strikes, I'm no good on the attack. I'm feeling weak and dizzy and stumble back with each block I manage to hold up.

The men start screaming and I see the fear on the men's faces in front of me. I don't have the energy to find out what's going on my movements becoming sluggish. "Grab her!" I hear one of them say and then I'm being lifted by the back of my dress. Whatever's carrying me is moving quickly, the trees going by in a blur before I lose consciousness.

A/N: Quick short chapter, I should update again pretty soon :) I'm loving this streak I'm on. It's great having ideas to write as well as the time. Less than two weeks before I start my new job though...