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

Chapter 10 - Adventures in the North 07.

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**Helman Tallhart POV**
Kingdom of the North, Torrhen's Square, 289 AC, three days after Jon left for the north.
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The current lord of the southwestern region of the kingdom sighed as he looked ahead, his men exiting the main castle gate. He was with his escort and a small battalion leaving Torrhen's Square and heading north.

He had heard rumors in the past week, and they were too strange to believe. First, a harvest from a poor farm to the north, where many people claimed it grew overnight, and with a 100% yield from the entire harvest, the largest and most beautiful ever seen in the North.

Helman didn't believe these rumors at first; however, they started spreading throughout his territory, and everyone who dared to go there came back confirming it was all true. Then, the rumors shifted from everyone talking about how the Old Gods blessed that farm. The whole region was in an uproar, vying for a spot to pray at the remaining heart trees in his land. This began to bring a headache to this lord since his audiences doubled with requests for people to use the Weirwood still left in his castle.

Finally, a new shipment was requested by some members of that farm with a request for carts to collect another large batch in the transport of the season's harvest. My trade administrator ended up accommodating the request.

Afterward, more rumors surfaced from the farm. A boy no older than 10 namedays appeared at the farm with a peculiar look in his gray eyes, dark hair, and a long chin, but with incredibly beautiful features, due to his noble blood. With just this description, he thought of his lord's bastard son in Winterfell, who mysteriously disappeared on the way to the Wall when Lord Stark punished him with the penalty of staying a year with his uncle at the Wall, for stealing under his roof.

Lord Stark was making a fuss in the North to find the boy, but the description also mentioned that the boy had green circles in his eyes. So, he couldn't alert his lord until he saw the boy for himself, but even so, he now had the obligation to confirm these rumors as the lord of this region.

He tried approaching some members of the farm in the city, but they had already left when he asked them to. Two days after they left, when Helman was preparing to go to the farm personally, there was another uproar, an absurdity spreading through the city. That farm was attacked by 12 bandits a few days ago, a group that Lord Tallhart knew personally after reports from his men, the same ruffians who were attacking the coast. The men of House Tallhart had been trying to kill them while hunting them for months.

And when he heard that they tried to loot the farm with only 5 farmers and a boy, who defended the place, the absurdity came from the result. People spoke of how all 11 bandits were killed and with no loss on the farm's side, that the child killed half of them alone, a horse killed 1, and 4 giant wolves appeared and killed the last 4 of them. One last bandit from the group remained as a prisoner on the site.

'Absurd! How would a child kill 6 bandits? Who is spreading something like this?' He shouted in thought. There were rumors that the boy used magical powers to control the bandits' horses and knock them all down, killing 2 of them in the process.

Helman knew he had to see all this with his own eyes; the city was already in an uproar, and many people wanted to go to that farm to meet this child, as everyone claimed that the growth of the harvest was due to the presence of the mysterious boy.

They were even saying that the boy was, in fact, a child of the forest, as from the ancient legends. The lord of Torrhen's Square couldn't help but imagine the headache when these rumors reached other territories and soon after spread throughout the North. Imagining the amount of letters he would receive to report what happened in his lands.