You Belong to Me

"Father, do I have to come?" You asked as you left the throne room and headed out to the horse and carriage. "Yes y/n you do! You are my heir and therefore you need to know this stuff. We are preparing for a war and we are running out of men to fight in our army" your father said with his stern voice. "But father I don't understand why would we buy more men when we can just recruit them from the city?" You were confused at how this was a smart decision. In your mind it made more sense to recruit young men and train them instead of paying all this money for trained men. I mean I get the logic but it just puts us in more debt. "Look you will understand one day when you are the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms but until that day comes stop questioning me and just observe" your father said getting into the carriage with you following pursuit.

"I apologise father. I will not question you again. But may I ask where we will be travelling too?" You asked making yourself comfortable for the journey ahead. "We are heading for as many slave markets as we can over the next few months. The more men we can recruit over this period of time the better. If I had it my way we would travel to every slave market in Westeros but we don't have time to do that. We have been given five months to get to as many as we can so you better make yourself comfortable because this is going to be a long journey."

It took about a week before you arrived at the first slave market and to be honest you were kind of disappointed. You had pictured in your head that there would be hundreds of chained men waiting to be sold but when you arrived at this little slave market there were only ten. "Father, please do not tell me that all of the slave markets are like this! If this is the case it is not worth going to anymore" You moaned. "Y/n! Will you stop questioning me! No they will not all be like this. This is the first of many. Some of the markets we attended may only have a few for sale. Some may have as many as a hundred. It all depends on how many slaves they have. This is a start. They may look like a small number but the quicker we get to these slave markets the quicker we can build our army" your father protested.

That was it now. Your father was a stubborn man. He thinks this is a brilliant idea but you can see it all blowing up in his face. You follow your father over to the master of the slaves that were available to buy. "How much do you want for them all?" Your father asked. "One golden dragon per slave" the master said, holding his hand out in front of him waiting for your father to either hand over the money or not. After some thinking your father got out the coins and handed them over as the master gave him the chained slaves and the keys. This is going to be a disaster and you knew it. Your father ordered some of his men to start heading back to the city and they were to return again once the slaves were in their cells. This way your father could save on food as he didn't have to worry about feeding the slaves.

Over the next coming weeks you stopped off at six more slave markets. The biggest one you have come across so far has had fifty slaves for sale. You saw this as a pointless task. There were plenty of men back at the city that could've been trained up to fight in the army and yet here we are spending months on the roads and spending all the city's money on these men that have minimal training. I think father believes that these men are going to be like the unsullied but he is far from right. As you came up to the next slave market you could see this was a lot larger than the rest and there were both men and women for sale. You knew father wouldn't buy any female slaves to fight in his army because he believes that they can't fight even though he is training you to become the future ruler of the Seven Kingdoms.

Your carriage came to a halt and you jumped out following behind your father. He goes straight over to the men while you look around the market because at this point you were just fed up and wanted to go home. You were about to head back to the horse and carriage but you were stopped by the sight of this beautiful tall blonde woman. You were entranced by her and you knew you couldn't leave her behind for some pig of a man to buy her to most likely just use her for sex. You find the master of the woman in the area. "How much for the tall blonde?" You asked. The pig of a man looked you up and down "what do you want with her? I doubt you could even afford her!" He stated giving you a smug look. "Well if you give me a price I will be able to tell you if I can afford her" you said smirking back at him. "140 silver stags" he stated looking straight into your eyes to see if he could work out if you could afford her.