Arya

Being woken up by someone constantly shaking you is not a pleasant thing, especially not in the morning.

Grunting, Arya squinted at whoever woke her. Her vision still blurry from just waking she could barely see who it was, but once she saw the red hair she knew who it was.

"Maggie, why did you wake me up so early?"

Smirking down at the little "lady" of House Stark, "The sun is pretty high in the sky and as I recall you have lessons with Septa Mordane today."

When Arya simply tried to go back to sleep she continued, "Let's not forget that I did promise to take you out today."

Swiftly looking at her, Arya seemed to perk up causing Maggie to lightly chuckle.

"So you're up now?" she asked, getting a nod. "Good, the sooner you finish your lessons the sooner we can explore."

After saying this, Arya quickly left her bed to get ready for the day ahead.

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"Fine work, as always. Well done." Septa Mordane said while looking at Sansa's needlework.

"Thank you," Sansa said.

"I love the detail that you've managed to get in this corners. Quite beautiful."

As the Septa and Sansa continued talking, Arya could hear her brothers outside practicing archery. Looking over at Maggie, she gives her a look which clearly says, "We're getting out of here," which only got her a pointed look back.

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Hiding a few feet away from the four brothers of Winterfell, Maggie had to voice her thoughts.

"I can't believe I went along with this."

"I can," Arya said, remembering all the times she got her way from her older friend.

"Relax your bow arm," Robb said as the two refocused on them.

Just as Bran was pulling the arrow back, Arya was doing the same thing but just a bit quicker and just as he was going to fire, Arya fired first and got a bullseye.

The three of the brothers turned in surprise to look at who fired. Once they saw her, Arya did a curtsy right before Bran began chasing after her as their brothers laughed.

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After Bran had been called away to go with his siblings and father to go somewhere, Maggie had kept her promise and taken Arya to go "exploring." Arya suspecting that they'd just go into the Godswood, she wanted to follow her family.

While following them from afar, the two stopped once they reached the woods.

Looking around the area, Arya asked, "Why'd you want to stop here?"

"If we follow any further they'd just catch us," seeing a confused face, she explained. "There's nothing but open field the more we go that way. Let's just explore the woods, it's still pretty far from Winterfell, but close enough that if there's any trouble we can simply run back."

"We can handle any trouble."

"As a friend of mine likes to say, "It's always down to hopefully."

Continuing to walk around the woods, two find nothing of any real interest. That is until they came upon a snake writhing in pain.

"What's a snake doing this far north?" Maggie said more to herself. "It's not that cold but still, not that many snakes near here."

Looking at the snake, she could see that it was trampled in spots, 'Possibly from a fight,' she thought.

While inspecting the snake, they both could hear the sound of crunching leaves. Turning to see what it was, they could see a stag with a slight limp and blood dripping from the limping leg.

"I guess that tells us how it ended up like this," Maggie said.

"Let's continue exploring," Arya said before continuing to look around.

"Alright," Maggie said with furrowed eyebrows.

After their little "exploration," the two decided to return to Winterfell where the rest of the day continued on normally. Where things changed was the next when Eddard Stark told his family that King Robert was coming to Winterfell soon.

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Sometime later would have the King arriving with his family and guards for the trip. Arya had just climbed into a wagon to get a better look at the people coming through the gates. While she was watching them, Maggie had snuck up behind her and took her helmet off causing Arya to turn in surprise.

"Hey, Arya what are you doing?" she asked with a knowing look.

"N-Nothing," Arya said while silently cursing herself for stuttering.

"Really? Well to me it looks like you are all the way over here watching the King's men when you should be next to your family, greeting the King and his family."

Seeing that she was caught she quickly gave Maggie puppy dog eyes, hoping that it convinces her to ignore her. Unfortunately, Maggie wasn't moved this time.

"Not gonna work this time, Arya. I've got orders directly from Lady Stark."

Resigned to her fate, she sighed and went with her to her family. Once there, Maggie took her place behind the Stark Family and next to Rodrik Cassel while Arya pushed her brother, Bran, told him to move and then took her spot as well.

As the King's men rode in, the first was a member of the Kingsguard, the two Princes, Orys Baratheon and Joffrey Baratheon, - the later of which was smilling at Sansa who was also smilling back - then there was the Hound and Eli Sand, - the guard dog of Joffrey and the "guard" of Orys - the family wagon, more Kingsguard, then the King, Robert Baratheon.

Bowing to the King as he got help down from his horse, he began to walk towards the Starks. Motioning for them to stand, everyone around stood up.

Bowing his head respectfully, Eddard said, "Your Grace."

Looking back at him for a moment, Robert replied, "You've got fat."

A snort behind King Robert could be heard, belonging to his first son Orys, who was trying to hide the fact he snorted in front of everyone but was obviously failing.

Looking down at Robert's stomach and raising his eyebrow, Eddard gave him a "What about you?" look. After which, the two "brothers" began laughing together and shared a hug.

What followed was everyone being introduced and Arya making comments throughout it all. Before finally, King Robert wanted to be taken to crypts and took off with Eddard in tow.

"Where's the Imp?" Arya asked once again.

Two people could be seen walking towards the group of people, they were Crown Prince Orys Baratheon and his "guard" Eli Sand.

"Hey Maggie and Little Wolf," Eli said with a lazy smile.

With a grin, Orys nodding his head in greeting at the two, "Arya, Maggie."