Game of Thrones: The Legend of Jon Arctic - ASOIAF/GOT

Chapter 5 - Adventures in the North 02.

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Third Person POV
Northern Kingdom, Farm north of Tallhart Territory, 289 AC, a few hours later

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The farm Jon discovered to be called Icehill Farm was managed by three families. They harvested every four months during the summer years and sent the produce to their lord's town to the south. In return, they received profits after deducting the use of their lands, tools, and seeds.

The eldest man Jon had met a few hours earlier, named Dult, was a North-born man and the overall head here, being the oldest. His younger brother, from another family, was another Northerner, introducing himself to Jon as Lucas. Their parents, the Pik family, were the former owners of the farm, a family of peasant farmers. The farm was managed by their parents' parents, brothers, and some sisters who married other farmers in the area. They were the only ones left from the old generation due to past winters; their parents had passed away, leaving the children to take over the land.

A third family joined the farm to work as traders and negotiators for the farm itself. The patriarch of this third family was in Torrhen Square to conduct business with their lord's latest shipment of grains.

Dult, the 40-nameday man, had four children. Three of them were on the farm when Jon arrived, with one son and one daughter the same age as Jon, and two young adults aged 18 and 20 namedays. His wife was at home taking care of their younger children and household chores.

Lucas, at 30 namedays, had only two teenage children since his wife died giving birth to the youngest. He initially left the farm to his older brother and became a guard for the Tallharts' house for years, but returned to the farm a few years ago to help his brother after their parents died.

The trader family's patriarch was Greg, with three daughters and two sons, both still children, as Greg Juit was 24 namedays old. The family had no blood relation to the two brothers here, but their parents knew Greg's parents, so they were welcomed to work as negotiators here because Greg had some literacy and knew the Juit family's business.

Jon, initially cautious, opened up to the families and got along well with the welcoming families for a night. The adult women felt sympathy for Jon's story and easily embraced him with warmth. The girls were excited about such a handsome boy with eyes they had never seen before arriving at their door. As children, they wanted to play with him all the time. Even the elders, with a brief exchange of words with the boy from the forest, ended up liking talking to Jon. They still found his story absurd but appreciated Jon's ability to speak and handle words like any noble's child. He shared various things he had heard and read in Winterfell, which garnered much admiration from the families as they could learn new stories. The boy realized for the first time how making friends was so easy, unlike his old home where he would have to hide from any visitor, and the servants would never be willing to talk to him.

Jon, in turn, was moved by the families of this humble farm. He couldn't remember being treated so kindly in Winterfell, except by his sister and father. He warmed up to people like these. They welcomed him, despite his absurd and suspicious story, gave him some food, even though the conditions of these families would make anyone turn away a stranger at their door, let alone bring him to their own table to spend a night here.

For Jon, after seeing all this kindness firsthand, he didn't care how poor their conditions were or how the food was inferior to that of Winterfell. The boy was beginning to see how the world was much bigger than he imagined while in Winterfell, and of course, Jon had a great help here to get along with the families, and that help was Caraxes, who, with Jon's magic, developed an intelligence that a normal bird shouldn't have. This made everyone enjoy his attempts at singing and his courage to attract people's attention. The young eagle had a somewhat narcissistic personality and had a compulsion to become the center of attention.