Tywin Lannister looked at the document in front of him and smiled, it wasn't a smile filled with joy, nor was it one with any hint of malice, then if he did have good reason to have it.
No Tywin instead smiled as he saw what other would certainly not. In his hands, he held a set of peaches no one else had.
He felt his lips form a smile perhaps wider than anyone had seen before and remembered the events that had occurred just a few days prior.
A messenger had arrived saying that an island had mysteriously appeared out of thin air, Tywin nearly had the man executed for trying to make a fool out of him, however, he chose not to, considering he could see the islands from where he stood.
In reality, Tywin was hesitant to even call it an island, for they looked more like a mountain than anything else.
Not one to take unneeded risks, Tywin ordered for a small scout team to be sent in and investigate, the men didn't even last till sundown when they returned bringing word that there were several children dressed as knights living on the islands.
He had ordered the men not to attack, at least not until he gave the order after all mountains don't, just show up out of nowhere.
So for an entire day, his men observed and when they returned they spoke of several adults fortifying small towns making sure they could resist attacks. It wasn't long until a small boat left the island and made contact with him.
A fat man, wearing a white armor with a red cross painted on it, requested an audience with him, accompanying him were a young man dressed in a strange set of clothes all colored black, in fact, even the young man's hair was black as well as his eyes.
The other one was dressed in a dark blue armor, that was built more for receiving attacks rather than giving them, yet no matter the size or how thick the armor was, the man walked with no hint of it even bothering him.
The man spoke in a strange yet familiar way and offered a trade, as wells a peace treaty, a simple yet frustrating one.
No one enters the island unless escorted or else risk starting a war, the same went for the people of the island, they could not place their feet on Westeros land unless escorted.
Tywin smirked at this and simply said. Bring me something that can feed not one but several villages and I will accept your offer for trade, the rest we will have to work out."
Another day passed and a massive boar, nearly the size of Tywins own castle was pulled out of the island, moved by a raff made of tree trunks and presented to him.
The fat man's arrogant smile spoke volumes, the pig's body was cut and given hungry masses. There was no way Tywin would eat any of it, not until the meat was tested by someone else.
Still, the fat man had fulfilled his part and a trade deal was made a simple yet effective one. No one sold anything unless it was inspected and approved, as for the peace treaty, it was practically covered under the trade deal, so Tywin wrote it down and signed it, the fat man did the same and sighed his own name.
Now if somehow the little people found out that there was a lot of food, in that mountain and chose to swim to it, how could he and his men be to blame, after all, no one under his house or serving it had touched the mountain, unescorted. So if those people were sick and provoked a plague, that was their problem.
Still, Tywin Lannister smirked, the island was located in an area few ever went, not even patrols went in that area, that would change now, however it would take a while for people to know about the mountains so he had time to think of what to do.