Chapter 6
The next three weeks we relatively quiet at the Glass Palace after the birth/planting of the egg-seed. The only things of note were Jon's discovery of the hall of swords and Harry blessing Ghost with the same shape-shifting as Hedwig. The rest of the time was spent getting almost twenty-one hundred orphans, and bastard children settled into Fair Grove and Harry making a literal Arm of nymphs to get everything done in the Glass Palace.
While Jon agreed that all the children should be taken care of he also was beginning to understand just how much magic it took Harry to make almost twenty thousand nymphs every day to get the day to day done. That in mind he proposed having the older children help with the harvesting and planting. While hesitant at first Harry was finally won over on the condition that they had to attend school to learn their letters and numbers at least three days a week and that they would be receiving coin for the work they did by weight of products gathered.
Jon had protested that they couldn't pay them as they didn't have the money to do so until Harry had shown him the treasury. A room that was the same size as the entire city of Fair Grove that had literal mountains of gold and silver.
When asked where all of it came from Harry explained that while he was building the Glass Palace, he had used a spell to summon all the lost treasures of the world, thinking along the lines of sunken ships that no one could find and wouldn't be missed. He hadn't even considered that entire kingdom would have been lost.
It wasn't until a week later that Jon understood what Harry was planing with his money system. Everyone was given a small bag of rice, seven apples and told they were free to fish all they liked as long as he or she didn't use nets. While the food would keep them alive and their housing was free the kids quickly grew bored of the same food day after day.
When one of them asked where all the food they gathered was going, Harry then explained that it wants into storage to keep it preserved or to the market for sale. It took less than a day for the word to spread and while the food was twice the price of what Harry paid them for the same amount it was explained that while yes they may have gathered it but it was grown on Harry's land and he was more than fair. Plus this way they could respond to different types of food or other things that were made in the Glass garden or even items from outside it.
It wasn't until the second week that Jon found the hall of swords as Harry called it. Jon called it the place that should never be seen. After all what else was he supposed to think about a hall that had over nine thousand valyrian steel swords that were hanging from the walls?
It was now the day before he was to arrive in Winterfell and Jon had been asked to be there to meet him with his siblings as his lord father was going to ask his friend to legitimize him now that he was married and had a baby on the way.
It had been decided by all parties that Harry wasn't going to go with Jon to Winterfell as they were planning to tell the king that he was a young woman who knew glass working. At the point where she had enough money to buy nobility from the Starks if she also agreed to be married to Jon as a way to remove him from the running to inherit Winterfell.
With a final kiss, Jon suddenly found himself in his family home with a large box of goods that Harry thought that they might need to help with the kings' visit and to act as a type of bribe to hopefully make it easier to get him legitimatized.
Robb was hanging out in the entrance hall board out of his mind. He hadn't realized just how much he would miss Jon until the bugger went and got himself married to the most exciting person the had ever heard of existing. Not met, forget fucking met, Harry was more interesting than the heroes of the old tale from the age of heroes. After all the Glass Palace seemed to surpass even the wall as a wonder and Robb is pretty sure that if the white walkers ever came back that Harry's Glass Palace could merely close their gates until the summer came once more before making a better wall that would probably light the walkers on fire if they touched it.
Looking around at the spotless hall Robb felt himself wishing he be at the Glass Palace with Jon; if for no other reason then to get away from his mother and her overbearing nature. It seems he had Jon to thank for that as while she still didn't like that Jon was her husbands bastard son she appeared to truly warm up to him now that he was married and away from Winterfell. Even to the point of agreeing that Ned should ask the king to legitimize Jon to make his entirely sure that Harry's child was viewed as a Stark and that Harry himself is under their protection. Not a bad move considering that Harry is between Winterfell and Dreadfort.
As Robb ideally wondered if he should go back to cursing Jon for getting all the luck resonantly when he heard a thump from behind him making him spin around only to see the brother he had been musing about land on his ass with another of his husbands' monster sized gift boxes.
Letting a grin slid onto his face, Robb decided to let Jon know he wasn't without witnesses to his not so graceful entrance by calling out to his brother, "Jon!"
"Robb," Jon called back with a smile letting Robb see the lightness and happiness that weren't there a month ago. Just another thing to thank Harry for though he is once more reminded of why he's jealous of his brother. Thinking of Harry.
"Where's Harry," Robb asked hoping to see the boy pop out of nowhere.
"Fair Grove," Jon answered before continuing, "Harry barely leaves the city unless to take care of something only he can handle. Honestly, I don't see Harry leaving the Glass Palace until after our son is born and may the gods have mercy on the soul of fool who makes him because Harry won't. Someone mentioned that the Jade Palace is rather defenceless should someone get inside, I woke up the next day and found thousands of statues had been added overnight. When I asked Harry about it, he told me that they scanned everyone that passed them to make sure they were allowed to be there and if they weren't then they would be killed. When asking why Harry pointed out that a Faceless man could probably get passed the wards so there needed to be an ultimate deterrent."
Nodding his head, Robb made a mental note never to piss Harry off while he was getting ready for a baby. That aside Robb replied, "Well mother might be a bit upset, but I'm sure she will understand not wanting to be away from the babe. So what did your wonderful husband send you with this time to bribe us with?"
"Mead, beer and vodka for alcohol as well as two bottles of what Harry calls Fire Whiskey. Then their the fruit juice's and sparkling water, for food he sent the normal wheat bags for bread and fruit. He also sent somethings called coffee and sugar. Oh, and a few jars of honey," Jon listed absently as if what he had just said wasn't just a feast the likes of which were never seen in Westeros much less the North.
