Dark Wings, Dark Words

Harrenhal

They marched them for a day? Maybe two. Ashanna wasn't sure.
They marched without rest, without food.
Ashanna was exhausted, a few strands of her dark hair clung to her neck in the heat under her hood. Her stomach felt so empty it made her ill.
Her arms and legs felt weak, but she kept walking and finally they reached their destination.
The ruins of a once great castle.
Harrenhal.

Ashanna was chained and pushed into a pen with Arya, Gendry, Hotpie and other prisoners of the Lannisters.

Day in and day out.
The mountain would choose people that they would torture for information. It didn't matter if they knew or not. They killed them anyway.

A strike of a whip woke Ashanna with a start. She scrambled to her feet, using Gendry as support. The Mountain approached their pen and the prisoners found themselves looking to the ground. Their gazes went anywhere except for the giant figure that approached them.

Don't.
Pick.
Any.
Of.
Us.

The mountain walked the length of the pen watching all of them. His gaze landed on the form beside Ashanna. She watched in horror as he pointed a finger at Gendry. He'd be the next to be tortured and killed.

The mountains men forcefully pulled Gendry out of the pen.
He turned to look at her.

"NO!" Ashanna screamed as she started to kick at their pen to open it. With all her moving, her hood fell..
All eyes were on her.

"What's this?" One of the men cooed as he reached for her.

"A girl." Another said teasingly.

"A pretty one one at that." Another agreed. The three men grabbed Ashanna and pulled her from their pen. She fought them as they dragged her along the muddy floor.
She could hear Gendry shouting for them to let her go. They paid no heed.

One man gripped her throat tightly so she wouldn't be able to flee. She looked around for anything she could use against her attackers..

That's when she spotted it.
A dagger on one of the men's belt.
She quickly unsheathed the blade and stabbed her attacker in the throat.
His eyes widened as his grip disappeared from her throat to his own. Ashanna twisted the blade deeper into his neck. She pulled it out when she knew he was dead. The other two men stared at her in shock. Blood pooled in the dead man's mouth. It poured endlessly from his neck.

"-You. You have a trade?" A voice said behind her.

"Smith milord." Gendry answered.
Ashanna turned to find that Gendry has been released.

The man had golden hair that was balding. He had a cold stare. Ashanna knew who he was.. she never met the man before but she could tell he was Tywin Lannister, lord of Casterly Rock, Father of Queen Cerci.

He was now standing across from Arya.

"This ones a girl.. dressed as a boy?" He asked curiously.

"Safer to travel, my lord." Arya gulped.

"Smart. Get them to work. Bring the girl, I need a new cup bearer." Tyson Lannister said quickly.

Ashanna turned to face the two other attackers. She gripped the dagger tightly.

"What's this?" Tywin asked from the men's side.

"She killled him milord." One of them mumbled. Ashanna glared at the man after those words left his mouth.

"Your men attacked me, My Lord." Ashanna said through clenched teeth.
Tywin Lannister narrowed his eyes at her as if studying her.

"Your trade?" He asked while raising his eyebrows.

"I can cook, bake and sew, My Lord... and I'm good with a weapon." Ashanna said honestly.

"And where did a girl learn how to handle a weapon?" Tywin asked in amusement.

"My father and brothers taught me, my lord." Ashanna said slowly. Tywin's eyes snapped to the body on the ground.

"You'll be given a position in the kitchens. You'll repair rips and holes in clothes and you'll test our smiths newly forged and repaired weapons.. under supervision of course." Tywin said clearly.

"Thank you, my lord." Ashanna nodded.

"Milord that girl killed one of our men." One of her attackers exclaimed in outrage.

"He wasn't much good to us if a young maid could kill him. Get it out of my sight." Tywin quipped motioning to the body of the dead man.

Tywin left followed by some of his men and Arya. She'd be his new cup bearer. Ashanna found herself following Gendry who was being shown where he'd be working.
Ashanna found the eyes of her attackers watching her with murderous glints in their eyes.
Ashanna's enemies were growing in number.