Fire Beyond the Wall

Climbing the Wall

The next morning I woke to the Sun blinding my vision. I squinted and sat up, back sore from lying on the hard ground.

"Morning" I heard to my right.

I looked to see Tormund who was packing a bag beside me, right where he was when I fell asleep.

"Morning" I said lowly and stood up.

When I did I saw Jon and I immediately walked over to him.

I stayed with Jon and Ygritte as we walked towards the wall. We stopped not even a hundred yards away from the Wall. We were all getting gear on to climb. I was sitting trying to tie the spiked sole onto my boots. I was bent over looking down. When in my vision I saw two feet right in front of me.

I slowly looked up following from feet to head.

"Make sure those are tight on your feet girl, don't want them falling off" tormund said.

He squatted down and handed me two ice picks that I would need to climb. I took them from him and he began to retie the fastenings on my feet.

Third Person POV -

As the Red haired man helped the raven haired girl, Jon and Ygritte were speaking not far away.

"I am your woman Jon Snow, we need to stick together, you need to trust me and your sister, two people you should never betray." Ygritte said sitting by Jon as they both prepped for the climb.

"You and your sister are with us now and you both will be kissed by fire" She finished.

Jon looked up at Ygritte at the statement of his sister, then his head found her with the Ginger Tormund. He was ready to talk to the ginger beast about what Ygritte implied, but Ygritte stopped him.

"Calm yourself, Tormund hasn't laid a hand on your sister in that way"

Jon took a breath of air and relaxed, then Ygritte spoke again.

"Yet" a single word utter as she walked away from Jon, Who glared at her with sharp eyes after she said it.

Rhaenna POV -

Once everyone had their gear on we stomped with our gear to the wall. I stopped to look straight up at the massive ice wall. As I stood staring up Jon walked up beside me.

"It's a long way up" He said looking with me.

I nodded and looked to him, "Don't fall".

He nodded at me, "You too". We stood looking at each other when voice called out.

"Pretty Crow!" Tormund's voice bellowed.

I rolled my eyes and Jon chuckled at my face.

I bent sideways to look at the ginger beast, he ways waving me over.

I sighed and looked at Jon, "Climb safe" and walked away.

Jon called that I be safe as well.

When I reached Tormund he spoke, "You will climb after me" as he spoke he was tying the safety rope around my waist.

We took our positions, Tormund began to climb first I was not far behind him. Orell was behind me, then Ygritte, Jon took up the end of our line. There were two more lines of people to our right and one to our left.

It wasn't too bad to first, I had energy and adrenaline to begin. As we got higher and higher up it got harder to breath, the wind was faster and my muscles began to ache. I couldn't even think about how my arms ached, I was too far up to take a break or even think of it.

I was climbing away, wrenching the pic out of the wall to take a step and jam in back into the wall. I was between movements when I heard a deep cracking resonate from within the wall. It was close it sounded like thunder. I carefully looked down over my shoulder to see Ygritte hand found a weak spot in the outer layer of ice. I followed the crack as it spread to the left from Ygritte's position and the ice begins to slide off. I was shocked and yelled as people began to fall, some saved by the safety rope others not so lucky. I firmly dung my pic's into the wall and held on waiting for the tug of Ygritte and Jon dangling off the rope. I felt the downward pull of it and screamed, I could hear Tormund yelling and grunting as well.

"WE NEED TO CUT THEM LOOSE" Orell yelled over the noise.

"NO" I screamed eyes prickling with tears.

I yelled and pleaded for Orell not to, but he was working away at the rope. I felt the weight drop away and my heart sank.

"Are they ok, did they fall all the way!" I called.

Orell Ignored me, "JUST CLIMB".

I sighed and held my teary eyes back as I continued to climb the final stretch.

I sighed when I saw the top, Tormund grabbed my coat and heaved me up. I scrambled away from the wall leaning against some ice on the top, catching my breath. I was heaving, breath coming out in frosted huffs, eyes glossy with tears and some frozen on my cheeks.

I'm watching the edge of the wall waiting to see who comes over. I vaguely see Tormund watching me as I sit there. Orell comes up not long after me and Tormund made it up. As he rolls onto the safety of the top of the wall, I glare at him. I continue as he slowly stands, he looks at me but I continue my hard glare, blurred by tears. I see him writhe under my stare, visibly uncomfortable, and he has to walk away. I felt the tightness in my legs so i brought myself to stand. I slowly rose my joints cracking.

Then I heard it, the sound of two other people climbing up. I whipped my head around and saw the familiar black and red haired people I dreaded had fallen.

I sighed in relieve and more tears of happiness sprung onto my eyes.

"Girl, Pretty Crow!" Tormund voice boomed.

I blinked back tears and turned to him, "come help me with these ropes".

I nodded and walked to him and silently began to help untangle the ropes and prepare to climb down the other side of the wall.

I was winding the rope into a neat bundle when I felt like checking on my brother and Ygritte. When I turned to see them, they were no longer by the edge laying down, they had moved closer to the southern side and were kissing. I smiled at the sight and went back to the ropes. I took a moment at the top to look over either side, It truly was a breathtaking view, with the sun rising over the the snowy mountains on one side and the rolling hills of the other.