BALLAD FOR THE WOLF MAIDEN
A Song of Ice and Fire Fanfiction
Disclaimer: My fanfic is based on A song of ice and fire created by G.R.R. Martin; characters and setting are owned by him, none by me, and no profit is/will be made or authorized from this story. This fanfic is a combination of known events that led to Robert's Rebellion and theories about what may have happened.
Forgive me for some grammatical mistakes: English isn't my mother language.
PROLOGUE
A long summer will come and end. Then the icy winds will blow like they have before, in a time that no one who now lives remembers. Each weirwood tree had a face, they are the Gods eyes. Heroes shall raise and fall and servants will emerge from both sides. It was the wind, whispering between the blood like leafs The cold darkness will raise again… Do you feel its breath?
The crannogman was lying down against one of the weirwood trees. His eyes were blank while he was dwelling of things yet to come. The green men had given him a white paste with blood red veins to drink: it was an ancient recipe from the children of the forest who would awake his powers and wed him to the trees. He has forgotten for how long he has been in the Isle of Faces… Has it months… or even years? It was located in the center of God's Eye lake. And the crannogman was seeing through God's eyes, indeed.
Once he was only a curious lad who lived in the Neck: he was small like all crannogmen, but brave and smart and strong. He grew up hunting and fishing and climbing trees, and learned all the magics of the crannogs… but he wanted more. Rare was the crannogman who leaves home, but he was bolder than most and when he reached manhood, he decided to leave Greywater Watch and visit the Isle of Faces, to meet face to face with the green men. He paddled a little skin boat down the Green Fork, only armed with a leathern shield and a three-pronged spear. He passed beneath the Twins by dark night so the Freys wouldn't see him and when he reached the Trident he climbed from the river and walked for days. When he finally arrived at the Gods Eye, he threw his boat in the lake and paddled out to the Isle, where he met the green men and remain there the entire winter.
"I've dreamt that dragon and wolf must come together." The crannogman said "From their union a servant of Light will heave. Cold dusk fell from his dragon steel and flee before his fangs. His eyes were blood red and his skin was covered in white velvet."
Dragon and wolf must come together. The wind whispered.
The crannogman saw wolves burning, the Trident flooded with blood and rubies, a bed of blood and roses, a beheaded wolf, a lion with a golden hand, a little bird singing to a dog, a crown wolf in a throne of corpses, a red enchantress bathing in blood like fire, a shadowless man with a flaming sword, a kraken rising from the depths of the sea, dragons on the skies with wings so vast that entire towns fall under their shadow, bright blue eyes that frozen the soul, the Red Keep and the Iron Throne… swallowed by ice and fire.
"The time has come… I have to go North." Will you return home, so soon? "Harrenhal." The crannogman said "I must go to Harrenhal." Must you? "Can I leave? I have to leave." You can leave anytime you wish… Are you ready to leave? "I have to… I have to go to Harrenhal." Why must you go to Harrenhal? "To bring dragon and wolf together."
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