Between the old books

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There has been a library next to Jon's house since he remember; it was always full of people searching the ideal book for a present, or for a night alone. There was no need to pay for books, you just go, pick the one you want, leave a tip in the tips bottle if you wanted to, and then come back and change the book, or simply give the first one back and never come back, or simply never come back again.

Winterfell was a beautiful place. During summer lots of people came here to the warm and fresh weather. Jon was born here, he spent here the whole year, and he could swear winters were rough but summers were beautiful, although he preferred winter.

Jon, 18 years old now, has been all his life reading the books Rhaella picked up for him. He always left tips in the bottle, and sometimes he used to bring flowers with him for Rhaella's daughter; he knew she has one, never met her though. But his favorite library has been closed since Rhaella's husband died two years ago. She has been hill since then as Lyana (his mother) has told him. He has never again get to see Rhaella, nor movement in her old library.

His mother told him than Rhaella and his husband came here when he was three with their daughter. He remember her telling him that their daughter was ill for some years and then she was very delicate. He have never met her nor seen her around, but his mother said that she looks a lot like Rhaella.

He was in his way to walk ghost (his beautiful wolf dog) in the park in front his house when he saw the light in the library on. He went to the showcase and tried to look inside but he saw nothing. He went to the park and spent the afternoon there with his dog and Ygritte, a girl he has met in his job at the ice cream shop, she was the one selling the ice creams while he was the one cooking them. Yes, he was in the counter selling ice creams for the whole summer when he went to the kitchen and made one special new one, it was so delicious that they changed roles and now he was the one doing ice creams and Ygritte was the one selling them, she was the daughter of the owner.

On his way back home, he saw again light in the library so he went there and knocked the door. No one answered, so he knocked again. He hoped to see Rhaella again, hug her and ask her how was her. Instead, a curly haired girl, with the skin of a chocolate color and big brown eyes opened the door and stood there in front of him.

"Hi" he said with a shy smile "I am Jon".

"Hi Jon, how can I help you? I am sorry to say we are closed" she responded kindly.

"Oh! I'm so sorry, I just wanted to know, is there Rhaella here? You know... the previous owner of the library... I used to come here all the time and then she suddenly disappeared and I just wanted to say hi if she is back..." he said rapidly.

"Would you wait a moment, Jon?" the girl said laughing a bit. She opened the door wider for him to come in and then closed the door and went to the door next to the counter and disappeared through it.

"Jon" he heard the voice he knew for so long and spun around. There she was, his dearest Rhaella. She looked a bit older and tired. He mover towards her and wen they were close he hugged her like he hugged his mother so many times.

Rhaella smiled at his reaction and hugged him back. "How have you been Jon? Still eager to read some old books?" she said kindly.

He responded with a nod and a wide smile and she leaded the way inside with Jon following her steps. When they entered the living room of what seemed to be Rhaella's house they heard a hard crash, like crystals hitting the ground, and a little sound that perfectly could have been a cat purring.

"Gods... Daenerys!" he heard Rhaella whispering.

"What was that" he asked worriedly.

"Come Jon, I need to talk with you about something important... I need to ask you something" Rhaella answered worriedly.