A/N: Post ADWD. All recognizable characters/places are Martin's. All plot is mine:)
"She doesn't look ferocious," said the fat Tyroshi merchant. He took a noisy slurp of Dornish red from a jewel encrusted goblet as he inspected the creature in front of him. "I can't use house pets in the pits."
"Mightn't look like much m'lord, but she'll prove her worth where it counts," replied the Westerosi trader. The man was disheveled, a bare-thread cloak wrapped around his scrawny shoulders. There was a cold in his bones-the Tyroshi could see it. His grey eyes were haunted and hungry; a desperate man of desperate times. Winter had come to Westeros not two years past; it had settled in for a long stay, a houseguest who knew not when to leave.
News of this hard winter had reached the Summer Isles, along with tales of the blue eyed dead ones come back to life.
"A man was desperate for better times if he was willing to capture a creature such as this," thought the Tyroshi. He stroked his purple goatee as he pondered the man's asking price. The caged beast didn't look like much. Huddled in a corner, with matted hair and scars all over her body, it looked like an animal with no fighting spirit left. That would not do in the pits.
Taking a sharpened spear from a line of training instruments, the fat man stuck the point in between the bars of the cage towards the far corner where the animal was curled.
"M'lord I wouldn't do that..."started the Westerosi. He was viciously cut off by an ear splitting snarl as the beast leapt to her feet. She tore the spear from the merchant's hands and flung it to the far corner of the room.
Though she couldn't stand to her full height in the cage-even half starved and beaten-Nymeria's furious yellow eyes glared down at the purple bearded man.
Her actions did not intimidate as she had intended. The man sneered at her in a cold, calculating manner.
"She will do."
He turned on his heel and headed away from the direwolf, leaving Nymeria once again alone in her cage.
A/N:I plan on making this a short story but I will adjust to reviews and followers. I already know how it will end so everyone else must be patient:)
Valar Dohaeris