Neville was finally back to Winterfell, but all alone there with only her grandmother, that was already very old and tired, he felt very lonely.
He was never bored however, he was always busy with his Lord affairs. Even so, his loneliness was disapointing and never left him.
Not even Ron was alone in the Erye, he took his brothers Fred and George with him. Only Neville was alone.
One morning a letter arrived, it was from Arthur Tully. Neville opened it glad to have some news, however the news weren't what he expected:
" Dear Neville,
I'm affraid the news I have for you and the others aren't the best ones. I must warn you, before anything, that this letter must be burned after you read it, and that the subject of it is extremely dangerous and shall not be told to anyone but Harry, Hermione and my own family.
I just recieved a letter from my little Ginny, saying that she overheard a conversation between the Queen Narcissa and the hand of the King Bellatrix Greyjoy, in wich the Queen confessed the King poisoned Albus Arryn. The reason i don't yet know, but I think the information is enough. I wanted advices. I feel the duty to make justice to my older friend, but now I see the mistake i made giving my Ginny in marriage to that Lannister monster, but now the mistake was already made. I am lost, what should I do? I think we have enough forces to win them in a war, but with my Ginny as hostage there is nothing I can do. I need your advice.
Arthur Tully. "
Neville was shocked. Albus was always like a father to him and knowing that he was murdered was like a knife in his heart. Suddenly he was taken by a rage he never felt before, a crazy thirst of blood, of revenge. He did not think twice and sent a letter to Arthur, Harry, Hermione and Ron calling them to Winterfell so that they could discuss the plans for making justice.
The waiting almost drove him mad, all he could think about was Albus. The rage has not abbandoned him, it only shared the space with nostalgia in his heart. Everything he did reminded him of Albus, and all alone with his sadness it was nearly impossible to bear, and as the days passed without answers to his letters, he, each time more, dreamed about revenge, of all the ways he could hurt King Lucius. Some horrible things. Neville was not that kind of boy, he has always been kind and gentle, he did not know where all this bitterness came from, and it frightened him, all those macabre thoughts.
Harry's answer to his letter saved him somehow, it gave him something else to think about. All the preparatives to the war council took all his time and so he didn't thought about revenge for a while but, at night, he dreamed about killing the Lannister in the most brutal ways. In the easier nights he dreamed about Albus, memories, mostly, of the time they spent together in Winterfell, back in the time he was just a boy, happy memories, but all of them somehow ended with an Albus lying dead on the floor, with his face terribly deformed in a suffering expression.
Nightmares. Thats all he had.
