Wild Side

Chapter 7

Chapter 7| Queen of The North & Loyalty

Lyanna and Robb waited for Ser Alton Lannister. He approaches and bows respectfully to Robb.

"You're Ser Alton Lannister?"

"I am, Your Grace."

"I offer your cousins peace if they meet my terms. First, your family must release my sisters. Second, my father's bones must be returned to us so he may rest beside his brother and sister in the crypts beneath Winterfell. And the remains of all those who died in his service must also be returned. Their families can honor them with proper funerals."

"An honorable request, Your Grace."

"Third... Joffrey and the Queen Regent must renounce all claim to dominion of the North. From this time, till the end of time, we are a free and independent kingdom." Alton looks at him wide-eyed. Lyanna thought it was a great request. Ser Rodrik and the other at the table chants.

"The King in the North. King in the North."

"Neither Joffrey nor any of his men shall set foot in our lands again. If he disregards this command, he shall suffer the same fate as my father, only I don't need a servant to do my beheading for me."

"These are... Your Grace, these are..."

"These are my terms. If the Queen Regent and her son meet them, I'll give them peace. If not, I will litter the south with Lannister dead."

"King Joffrey is a Baratheon, Your Grace." Lyanna sneers.

"Oh, is he? You'll ride at daybreak, Ser Alton. That will be all for tonight." After everyone else leaves the tent, Theon approaches Robb.

"A word, Your Grace?"

"You don't have to call me 'Your Grace' when no one's around."

"It's not so bad once you get used to it."

"I'm glad someone's gotten used to it."

"The Lannisters are going to reject your terms, you know?" Lyanna bites on her lip and looks down.

"Of course they are." Lyanna couldn't help but stay quite. Sometimes Theon didn't really give her a good vibe something about him and she didn't want to say something that will be taken as information to other Houses.

"We can fight them in the fields as long as you like, but we won't beat them until you take King's Landing. And we can't take King's Landing without ships. My father has ships and men who know how to sail them."

"Men who fought my father."

"Men who fought King Robert to free themselves from the yoke of the South, just like you're doing now. I'm his only living son. He'll listen to me. I know he will. I'm not a Stark. I know that. But your father raised me to be an honorable man. We can avenge him together."

Later at another tent, Lyanna and Lady Stark was talking to Robb.

"You don't want Balon Greyjoy for an ally."

"I need his ships. They say he has 200."

"They say a million rats live in the sewers of King's Landing. Shall we rally them to fight for us?" Catelyn is preparing to go somewhere, gathering up various items.