KNIGHTFALL
Darin: A girl? You let a girl and a old man escape?
Black Lorren: The old man managed to cut down two of our men.
Darin pushes Black Lorren in the jaw who falls to the ground. Darin shakes the pain out of his fist. He kicks Black Lorren again and again.
Darin: Get the horses and the hounds.
Dagmer grins and laughs.
OUTSIDE KNIGHTFALL
Jorah and Talana are walking along side a stream. Talana has a broken look in her eyes, Jorah glances at her and sighs.
Talana: We should've taken more food
Jorah: We couldn't risk going to the kitchens.
Talana: The people all love you, Ser Jorah. They would've given you whatever you needed.
Jorah: If Darin would've found out, he'd hanged them.
Talana: We can't survive on walnuts.
Jorah cracks a walnut in his hand hands it to Talana who eats it.
Talana: We've been walking since sunrise. You're tired
Jorah: I'm fine.
They come across a small rise hearing sounds of children laughing in the distance.
Talana: I know that farm. Father sent two orphans there. They'll give us food.
Jorah: We can't risk it. If Darin tracks us here, he'll torture them until he finds out where we are. They'll be after us with hounds. We got a good start on them but we can't outrun hounds.
Talana sighs keeping her gaze on the farm in the distance until Jorah gently pushes her ahead and they keeps walking
HARRENHAL
A man twitches while hung by a noose. Another screams in pain.
Man: Go on. Now I want you to tell me what happened. Come on, this way. Come on, speak up. Speak up.
Above the courtyard, Tywin listens and sniffs a wooden toothpick.
Tywin: Wolfsbane. A rare substance. This is no common assassin.
MOUNTAIN: We hanged twenty men and one woman last night.
Tywin: I don't care if you hanged a hundred. A man tried to kill me. I want his name and I want his head.
Karron and Kari are listening in hidden nearby. Kari has tears forming in her eyes, Karron places his hand on her shoulder
Karron places a knife on the table and listens, Kari turns and walks out of the room sobbing silently.
THE MOUNTAIN: We think it was an infiltrator from the Brotherhood Without Banners.
Tywin: Pretentious name for a band of outlaws. We can't allow rebels behind our lines to harass us with impunity. We look like fools and they look like heroes. That's how kings fall. I want them dead, every one.
THE MOUNTAIN: Killing them isn't the problem. It's finding them.
Tywin: Burn the villages, burn the farms. Let them know what it means to choose the wrong side.
THE MOUNTAIN leaves the room
Tywin: Boy?
Karron looks up
Tywin: You're new? What's your name?
Karron: Arlen Rush, my lord.
Tywin: Where are you from?
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The Snow Bastards
FanfictionElizabeth and Jon Snow were known as Ned Stark's bastards; having no idea who their mother was. Their destinies are aligned and coming sooner then later
