The Lannister Wolf Series

Chapter IV

Day 2

Evelyn woke up later than she had the day before, which she blamed mostly on her staying up rather late melting down her weapons. She was glad though she still had the wooden longbow and quiver of arrows. She wasn't going to do anything to them even though they screamed Winterfell and Stark. She needed something to hunt with and protect herself. Once she got to Robb and her mother, she would find something that wouldn't appear suspicious.

The girl relit the small fire she had made the night before after Zinzi and Lady returned from morning hunting with a rather large carcass of a deer and two bunnies. She left the bunnies to them while she skinned the deer, cooking the meat over the fire and washing the skin in the river. She used the skin as a second sack and separated the contents of the first sack between the two, giving one each to Lady and Zinzi so that Zinzi didn't have to carry the one sack all by herself.

When they finished the first twenty miles, Evelyn picked up the pace to a slow jog and to the wolves' puzzlement, ran the next ten miles before they stopped for their midday rest. Evelyn had set to work sketching out the smaller pieces of her outfit from her cloak and chose where to take the seams in on her shirt and pants, so they were snugger.

That evening they stopped just short of sixty-five miles but both wolves could tell that Evelyn was exhausted and the girl couldn't go any further.

The girl fell asleep instantly against a tree, dozing off easily. Several hours later she woke to the sound of Lady digging at something. She had been chasing a squirrel, only for the critter to take refuge under a large slab of rock nearby. Rising to her feet, Evelyn walked over and lifted the rock for the wolf, only for Lady to discover that the squirrel had found a backway exit.

As Evelyn dropped the stone back to its position, she noted how the rock wasn't iron hard but almost soft and smooth. Running her fingers over it gently, a thought came to her.

Grabbing her hunting knife, she began to carefully chisel into the stone, only to realize that it wasn't brittle and didn't flake.... But was actually rather decent chiseling stone.

Sitting down next to the rock, she began to chisel away at the rock to pass the time, only to realize about an hour later that she had built a rather intriguing design. Grabbing her notebook, she opened to a new page and sketched the thing she had chiseled onto the page and held it up. She looked over at Lady who was watching her and held the book out to the wolf. Lady eyed it suspiciously, not sure what Evelyn was trying to say.

Evelyn looked around before turning to Lady, "Can you find another one of these?" she asked, holding out a handful of the rock's fragments.

Lady sniffed the rock before she dragged her nose along the ground, sniffing out any similar smells. While she was doing that, Evelyn returned to her chiseling to take care of the fine-tuned parts and to ensure that everything was even.

Soon, Lady returned and began to tug at the girl's jacket with her teeth. Evelyn followed the white wolf, only for Lady to lead her about ten meters out of the camp to where the wolf had indeed found another similar slab of stone, but this one was thinner and smaller in diameter but that did not cause an issue.

Evelyn tested out the weight of the rock and realized it wasn't more than her own weight. Carefully she pushed the rock back into camp and over to where the other rock was. Lady laid down next to her sister while Evelyn returned to her chiseling. She didn't care that her eyes were getting tired, she needed to finish this tonight for they would be moving on in the morning.

Lady fell asleep to the sound of her mistress chiseling away at stone. She only woke up again about an hour later when Evelyn began to build another dome of rocks, building a small fire inside and making sure it was as hot as magma inside.

Shuffling through her bags, Evelyn drew out her two largest blocks of metal which had once been her dual swords. She went hunting through her bags until she came upon the small cauldron that Shae had packed her. Evelyn had told her that the chances of her needing a cauldron were slim, but the maid had insisted that you never knew when you needed a good pot of soup. Now, Evelyn was glad she had packed it.

Stuffing the metal blocks into the cauldron, she placed the thing in the fire, right in the center and using a stick, pushed the fire red coals all around it till it surrounded the cauldron.

"I'm a regular witch brewing a magic potion huh?" the girl asked Lady who was looking at her with interest.

While the metal melted into goop, Evelyn headed back to the two slabs of stone. Since the second stone was thinner than the first one, the design she had etched into it was shallower than the first stone. With minor difficulty she lifted the thinner stone onto the first one and using markings on the side of the stones, ensured that the two designs she etched into the stones were lined up perfectly. When she was sure of this, she grabbed the hammer and an arrow before carefully chiseling out a hole in the middle of the top slab. When she hit home, she blew into the hole, so no rock particles got in the way.

Soon she heard the metal in the cauldron popping from the heat and rushing back, she lifted the cauldron out with the end of her bow since she trusted it to not snap from the weight.

Careful so as to not spill the metal, nor to burn herself, the girl carried the cauldron over to the two rocks. Placing the cauldron on top of the slabs, she used two shorter sticks and tilted it till the liquid metal poured into the hole. Evelyn waited with bated breath until the last drop of metal poured out of the cauldron into the hole. Grabbing a nearby stick, she lit it on fire and hovered it over the hole, peering down. She smiled when she saw that there had been just the right amount of metal: not too much and not too little.

Finishing that up, she grabbed the cauldron and turning it upside down, placed it back in the fire so that the excess metal would melt and drain out of the cauldron. Evelyn packed up the things she wouldn't need in the morning before falling asleep with herself smushed between Zinzi and Lady. She fell asleep to the sound of the fire crackling whenever the metal dripped into the flames. She hoped it would be a cold night.

EEEEEEE!!!!!!! The character Evelyn is evolving into her new self!!!! I had so much fun writing this chapter! Sorry if it wasn't as long as some of the others but I will try to keep them evenly lengthened:)