Faceless and forbidden love
Chapter 1 – Once upon a time
It was a cloudy day, when a little group of three kids were brought to Harrenhall. There they've been living like prinsoners, under the sky – the sky, which showed a little boy the freedom. Next to the three were standing a lot of other people, some of them were old, the others young.
Everyday the watch of Harrenhall picked a few of the people and tried to get useful information in a way, which was painful and brutal. Sometimes the picked people didn't even came back to the unpicked ones. A boy, who was named Gendry, asked himself where they've gone and a man, who was maybe 50 years old, answered "They were killed, my dear. They'll never come back." Fearful looks were changed within the three. The youngest of them swallowed a piece of anxiety.
One day there came up a man, a lord. It was Lord Tywin Lennister. He walked past the prinsoners looking at them and when his eyes stopped on a young boy, whos head was inclined to the ground, he turned to the watch. A kind of amusement was in his eyes. "Lord Commandant. I hope you know, that this evident boy is a girl." and he showed up at the youngest of the three kids. At this moment the breath of the girl faltered. She was shivering a bit. How he could know? she thought. "I'll take her with me!" ordered Lord Tywin and gave a sign to the watch to bring her to him.
After that happening the girl worked as a manservant for Lord Tywin. She was bringing him his wine, food and a lot if other things. She didn't knew what happened to her friends, because she had no time to look after them.
One day the lord asked her "Where did you learned to read?" and a girl said "My father taught me, but he's dead now." With a sceptical look Tywin Lannister eyed her. "And who was your father?" he wanted to know. ,,A smith, m'Lord." she lied. Her father had been the Lord of Winterfell and the hand of king Robert Baratheon – Eddard Stark, who was killed by Ilyn Payne. And she was Arya Stark. "It's unusual that a smith can read. Where did he learned?".,,I don't know, m'Lord." He nodded and gave her a sign that she can leave. So she left quickly the room. She went outside to the yard, where the officials of Lord Tywin were working, and where the prinsoners were. Arya saw Gendry and Hotpie, her friend. They seemed fine, but it looked like that they weren't noticing her. So she turned around and crashed directly in someone. Embarassed she said "Excuse me." and showed up to go. But suddely he grabbed her arm and pulled her back in front of him. Aryas' breath started to get faster, because of the unexpected touch. She got a bit scared. What wants he? Arya thought. "Let me go. Please." said she with an imploring undertone. "A man doesen't wanted to scare a girl." answered the man with a foreign accent. Who is he? she thought. "What do you want from me?" Arya questioned. "A man wants three names and he'll kill them. He will help Arya Stark of Winterfell." he replied quietly. It was the first time she had heard her name since she had arrived in Harrenhall. Arya raised her head to look who the man was. When he came in her prespective she saw red hair with white wisps. His hair was longer than hers and his eyes were amber colored. His eyes shined when sunshine brushed them. He appeared kind. Not like the others here. He appeared really nice. "You know who I am, so it's only fair, if I'll know who you are." she spoke and while she did, she realized that Jaqen H'ghar was standing in front of her. He had been jailed and she gave him freedom. "Jaqen…?!" she muttered and he smirked and nodded.
In the next days Arya named the names, which helped her to escape with Hotpie and Gendry out of Harrenhall. Jaqen became her friend here in Westeros.
After they had escaped they've walked a whole day and just a man knew, where they were walking. Arya caught him in a few seconds up and asked "Jaqen, where you are going to carry us?" He turned his head to her, looked at her and replied "To the nearest harbour." He saw a spark of surprise in her face. "Why?". "Because a man needs to go back to Braavos, and if a girl wants to go with him, he'll take her with him." Now he saw a bigger spark of surprise. "What should I do in Braavos?" asked Arya incredulous. "Learning to be like a man. An assassin. How to be no one and how to become anyone." Jaqen explained. Now he spotted interest in her eyes. "But if a girl will come with a man, she'll have to leave her friends now and they'll go another path." he added. "Why?" Arya wanted to know. "Because they aren't able to get servants of the many-faced god." When I can learn how to be an assassin, I could kill Cersei, Maryn Trant and all the others I want to kill. Here, in Westeros, I'd be caught by the soldiers, but in Braavos no one knows who I am. Arya minded. Then she looked at Jaqen, then at Gendry and Hotpie. After a long breath she said "Fine. I want to go with you to Braavos!". He just nodded and turned around to the walking boys. "Excuse a man, but you two have to go now another way. If you'll follow the river you should find a little town. There you can eat. She'll go with me." Jaqen said without hesistation. Shocked the two boys stared at Arya. "You will go with him?!" stuttered Gendry and she nodded determined. Disappointed he breathed out and asked "Where will you go?" But before Arya was able to answer Jaqen said "Far away."
When the two boys realized that they won't get a more accurate answer, they just nodded and took farewell of Arya. Now the common way of the three friends had ended and they took separate ways. A little tear rolled down Hotpies' cheek. "Don't cry!" Gendry said unstrugged. "I am trying!" sobbed Hotpie. Finally the three hugged each other and took a last view. Arya smiled a sad acting smile and turned away and continued walking next to Jaqen in the direction he carried her. She knew that she wouldn't probably see her friends once again, but she had gone with Jaqen. A man, who helped them to escape. She was thankful to him.
One time she turned around her head to see, if the boys were walking, but they've stood there and looking after her. She smiled and waved them with her hand. They did too. Then she finally looked at them and followed Jaqen. This was the last time she had saw them for the next years, maybe.
A few days or perhaps a week she and a man were walking. And then, at last, they've reached the harbour. Jaqen laid a step too and Arya get difficulties to follow him, because he had a really fast walk. Arya was almost running. Finally they found a ship, which sailed to Braavos.
Jaqen went to the captain and asked, if they can get a cabin. The man agreed and said the cost. But they had no money and that was thing Arya knew. It was nearly impossible to get a cabin without money. She'd been standing a few meters behind Jaqen. She saw how he had took out a coin, which Arya had never seen before in her entire life. And she heard how Jaqen said the words "Valar Morghulis." The reaction of the captain was unexpected for the girl, but expected for a man. Just a few minutes later a sailor showed them a cabin with two beds. Jaqen nodded and gave Arya a sign that she can walk in. The first thing she did, was laying down on the bed and falling asleep instanstly. Jaqen had been talking to the sailor so he just realized that Arya was sleeping when he entered the cabin and closed the door after him. When he looked at her his face began to smile a smile. So tired she had been all the time and he knew it, but she insisted to walk. She had a ambitious mind, so Jaqen wasn't able to stop her walking just with words. He could made her sleep with a poison, but if he had an intention to make one it would have took too long...
She woke up. She didn't knew how long she had slept. Jaqen wasn't in the cabin. Is it day? How long I've slept? Arya asked herself. She stood up and streched her arms in the air. A few bones cracked quietly. She opened with a bit force the door and immediantly her eyes had been blinded by the bright sunbeams. It was warm. She stepped out of the cabin and closed the door behind her. While she did that she'd been looking around with the hope to see her only friend, Jaqen, here. But she didn't found him, so she decided to look around on the ship. It wasn't big, thus she had the hope to find him quickly. Or maybe some food, she tought, when she heard her tummy rumbling. She walked over the whole deck and finally she saw the red and white colored hair. Arya decided to scare him, so she crept as quietly as she could behind him and when she reached him, he said "A girl is too loud. A man can hear her walking and breathing". He turned around and eyed her. Her glance said all. She was disappointed that he'd heard her. A man grinned amused. "That's not funny!" she said incensed. "But that does not matter at all now. How long have I slept?" she changed the topic fastly. "Almost a day." he answered and saw her shocked countenance. Her mandible fell down. "So long?!" she stuttered and a man nodded emphatically. Her body tightened briefly but slacked just a few moments later. "A girl might be hungry. Does she need some food?" Jaqen raised his voice and Arya just answered with a qiuet yes.
After she was repleted she asked "How long will we sail to Braavos?" and a man answered "Nearly three more weeks". Arya sighed, but nodded.
The three weeks she spent on the ship she had been talking with all the sailors. They'd told her a lot of storys and a lot of Essos. The more she heard about it the more she became interested in it. And finally she saw it! She saw the shore of Essos…