Chapter 103 - The prophecies of the Ghost of High Heart.

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Third Person POV.
Oldtown.

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"High in the halls of the kings who are gone
Jenny would dance with her ghosts
The ones she had lost and the ones she had found
And the ones who had loved her the most."

The singer's voice stopped there, at the last verse of the song, as his gaze returned to the woman standing in front of the group, who had her eyes closed, seemingly savoring the music.
"Ah... my dear Jenny..." she murmured. "Only your song can pull me from this wave of nightmares I've been having lately... this is a curse placed upon me, because the gods gave me these visions... why? I only see death, more now than ever before!" she murmured, seeming distressed.
"Will you speak now? About your visions?" Thoros of Myr, who stood there along with the Brotherhood Without Banners — which had been formed by Lord Stark himself when he was still Hand of the King, to go after the Mountain while Tywin had left him in the realm precisely as a response to Catelyn Stark's actions in capturing Tyrion Lannister and taking him to the Vale.

The woman before them was the known Ghost of High Heart, an elderly dwarf woman who lived in a grove with many weirwood trees, where long ago, there had been a massacre committed by a human king against many children of the forest — the perpetrator of the massacre left only those trees behind while the bodies of the children were left fallen on the ground until they became fertilizer. It is said that the place is still haunted by the dead children of that time, but there was still someone who lived there.

The woman known as the Ghost of High Heart — there are many things surrounding this woman. The Brotherhood Without Banners had ended up contacting her because of the visions she has in exchange for hearing the song Jenny of Oldstones.
There are many mysteries about her. Some believed she was so old that she had lived in the time of Jenny herself, when there was an event where a forest witch was summoned to court, and she made a prophecy that at the time the princes, Rhaella Targaryen and Aerys II Targaryen, should marry because their lineage would produce the one who would be known as the Prince That Was Promised. But most did not believe it was her.

Now Jon, if he saw her, would say she could be a hybrid, knowing the children of the forest beyond the Wall — and that made her a green seer, who according to all, has prophetic dreams.
And here was the Brotherhood Without Banners, seeking her words after their singer, Tom Sevenstrings, paid the price.

"Very well... I shall speak of my nightmares..." she murmured to the men.
All already knew what had happened in this realm — when news spread of the Mountain being captured by Ned Stark's bastard and having his leg cut off. As well as the news of an entire northern group being faced by the same — only Robb Stark came out well, but everyone says Jon Snow used a magic that made even the skies tremble with a roar before he struck down all 50 men, destroying the entire forest. Some Northerners were calling him a demigod — one seeking vengeance after being treated as a bastard in Winterfell, and all believe he is after Lady Catelyn.

There were many absurd reports that no one could understand — that's why Thoros came to find this woman, in search of mysticism. Never in history have there been so many accounts of magic in Westeros as now. This Jon Snow is making all those who claim to master magic — whether of the Red God, or the Old Gods — look like charlatans as more of his feats are heard.

The woman looked at them, seemingly hesitant, but then began to recite her words.
"I saw the giant of death meet his doom... His body rolled over the earth like soulless rotten flesh. The beast that cast him did not roar — it only stared."

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