Beauty and the Hound - Sandor Clegane

31 - The Brotherhood without Banners

Praise the mothers,
Praise the fathers,
Because,
Gallant men are not born,
They are forged.
- Danny Fuego

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The roads become very rocky as they journeyed further to a place Meela wasn't just quite sure of. The men then stopped the wagon and brought them outside. Arya was to ride a horse with Thoros, Meela with Anguy while the other two boys with someone else.

As soon as Meela was lifted off to ride a horse with Anguy. Her face was covered with a similar black rag again and she yelled at him for it. But Anguy never bothered to reply her. He was quiet throughout the journey and never spoke to her at all.

They stopped after a few hours, once the sun had set. Meela couldn't visualise the place they were at. She only knew that the area around them could be a waterfall since heavy sound of waters could be heard.

The blindfolding rag was taken off her face and she squirmed when the fire beacons shone directly on her eyes. It was indeed a dark night and they weren't near a waterfall, they were at a waterfall. It looked like a cave similar to the one Meela had went with Sandor the previous night.

She only sighed. So many things happened in just two days. She missed seeing his awfully fearful face. She missed kissing his bearded cheeks, his thin lips, his hairy chest. She missed making love to him.

She gasped when she heard a snap. That was her bounds being cut by Anguy. She sighs again, rubbing her bruised wrists.

'Thank you.'

She was then ushered forward to walk with Arya and the boys. They entered the dark cave where it revealed hundreds of unknown men holding fire beacons.

'What is this place?' Arya asks.

'Somewhere the wolves nor the lions come prowling.' Thoros answers.

All the men surrounded the 5 of them in a circle.
Meela struggles to fully open her eyes under the fire beacons and the moonlight shining the cave. When she does, her eyes fall on a tied Sandor walking in front of her.

Sandor lets out an evil grin. It looked ugly, but only Meela found it similar to the grin he makes whenever he intended to get rough with her so she smiles. Seeing him tied up like this added to all her unachieved fantasises and she clenched her thighs together, stopping any more dirty thoughts to reappear.

'You look like a bunch of swineherds.' Sandor finally breaks the silence.

'Some of us were swineherds, and some were Tanners, masons..that was before..' Anguy says but Sandor cuts him off.

'You're still swineherds and tanners and masons. You think carrying a crooked spear makes you a soldier?'

'No,' someone answers him. Everyone started muttering something lowly and a man appeared from a hidden part of the cave.

He was tall, looking tired and wounded. He was slightly bald, with a rough edgy beard and a sharp nose. He had an eye patch on his right eye. It was Beric Dondarrion.

Aye he's good looking, she thought as she eyes him up and down.

'Fighting in a war makes you a soldier.' Beric says.

'Beric Dondarrion..you've seen better days,' Sandor remarked.

'And I won't see them again.'

Sandor shakes his head. Meela's mind screams for Sandor to keep himself quiet but obviously his snobbish, arrogant, rude self wouldn't be quiet at all.