Bad Dreams / Sandor Clegane

52. So Pretty, So Vicious

'That's what death is, isn't it? forgetting... Forgotten... If we forget who we are where we come from we are not men anymore.' Sam told them 'just animals. your memories don't come from books, your stories are not just stories...'

'we gotta take out the night king.'

'He can find me.' Bran informed them. 'His mark is always on me,' Bran said showing them the burns on his arms from when he was grabbed in a vision.

'We will put you in the crypt where it's safest.' Jon told Bran

'No we have to draw him out or his army kills us all. I will wait for him in the woods for him.' Bran told them.

'You want to use yourself as a bait?' Amelia asked incredulously shaking her head vigorously.

'We're not leaving you alone out there.' Arya added.

'I'll stay with him,' theon said 'with the iron born. I took this castle from you once, let me defend you now.'

"Me too." Amelia added, Tyrion stared back at her. He didn't want her in the thick of the fighting. But it was Bran that spoke up.

"No Amelia." Bran declared. "I need you safe."

"And I need you safe." She countered staring back at him. "Either we both hide or you hope that I don't run out of arrows." Sandor chuckled, his gorgeous was a fighter, she was going to fight. She wasnt going to hide like her twin did at the battle of the black water bay. 

''We will hold off the rest of them for the rest as we can'' Davos said getting back on track.

'Ser Davos and I will be on the top to give you the signal went to light the trench' tyrion told them.

'Ser Davos is perfectly capable of waving a torch on his own, you will be in the crypt.' Daenerys told Tyrion.

'Your grace I have fought before I can do it again, along with the men and women risking their lives.' Tyrion reminded her

'There are thousands of them and only one of you. You cannot fight as well as they can, but you can think better than any of them... you're here because of your mind if you survive, if we survive I will need it.' Daenerys told him.

"Only one uncle Tyrion." Amelia agreed smiling back at him. Begrudgingly he nodded.

"As long as you are with me." Tyrion added.

"Already had this talk with Bran, were you not listening?" Amelia mused.

'The dragon should give us an edge in the field' Davos went on

'If they are in the field they are not protecting Bran, we need to be near him not so near the night King won't come.' Jon said

'Has anyone ever tried to kill him?'

'No one has ever tried' Bran told them

'We are all going to die!' Tormund said 'but at least we died together,' he winked at Brienne.

'Let's get some rest,' Jon instructed 'Your grace' Jon said to dany before he made a quick exit. Bran reached out pulling Amelia to him.

"I don't want you out there."

"Funny, I don't want you out there." Amelia countered. She brought a hand to his cheek. "What a way to die, protecting my best friend... seems like a fairy tale ending to me."

"My endings were better than ours." Bran reminded her. "They don't die but live happily ever after."

"Yes, thats right." Amelia agreed. "How does the happily ever after begin for them?" Bran smiled but caught sandors eye.