Sansa

"What would you like to do?" Joffrey asked.

Joffrey had just rescued Sansa form Ser Ilyn, the king's executioner, and the Hound. Sansa had been visiting the queen when they had frightened her. Stupid Arya had refused to go visit the queen. How dare she? She had gone riding instead. Sansa hated riding.

"Whatever you would like to do, my prince," said Sansa

"We could go riding," Joffrey said after a moment of reflection.

"Oh, I love riding!" Sansa exclaimed.

Joffrey glanced back at Lady, Sansa's direwolf, "Your wolf is liable to frighten the horses, and my dog seems to frighten you. Let us leave them both behind."

"If you like, I suppose I could tie Lady up. I didn't know you had a dog."

"He's my mother's dog, in truth. She has set him to guard me, and so he does."

"You mean the Hound? Is it safe to leave him behind?"

Prince Joffrey looked annoyed that she would even ask. "Have no fear, lady. I am almost a man grown, and I don't fight with wood like your brothers. All I need it this." He drew his longsword and showed it to her. Sansa exclaimed over it admiringly and Joffrey looked pleased. "I call it Lion's Tooth."

And so, they left her direwolf and his bodyguard behind them, while they ranged east along the north bank of the Trident, with no company save Lion's Tooth.

Eventually, they grew hungry. Joffrey found a holdfast by its smoke and told them to fetch food and wine for their prince and his lady. They dined on trout fresh from the river and Sansa drank more wine than she had ever drunk before.

"Shouldn't we start heading back?" asked Sansa.

"Soon," Joffrey said. "The battleground is right up ahead, where the river bends. That was where my father killed Rhaegar Targaryen, you know. He smashed his chest, crunch, right through his armor. Then my uncle Jaime killed old Aerys and my father was king. What's that sound?"

Sansa heard it too, floating through the woods, a kind of wooden clattering, snack snack snack. "I don't know," she said, but it made her nervous. "Joffrey, let's go back.

"I want to see what it is." Joffrey headed toward the sound.

"Someone's there," said Sansa, wishing Lady were there with her.

"Your safe with me," said Joffrey as he drew Lion's Tooth. "This way."

They road through a stand of trees and came upon a clearing. There, the distinctive figure of Sasuke Uchiha stood in the middle, play fighting a girl with wooden sticks instead of swords.

The girl was years younger. She circled warily, looking for an opening in Sasuke's stance. She rushed at him from behind, but he whirled around and pushed her "sword" aside, then swung at her. Impressively, the girl dodged by back flipping away, then resuming her attack. She struck with incredible speed, but Sasuke parried with equal speed. He made some hand signs and breathed fire at the girl. She dashed to the side to avoid the attack, then came in from the side, feinting a blow from the left, the striking from overhead. Sasuke parried the blow and hit her on the fingers, causing her to drop her weapon and cry out in pain.

Then, Sansa saw Sasuke Uchiha smile slightly and poke the girl's forehead.

"You left yourself wide open with that one," said Sasuke. "You poured everything into offense and completely forgot about defense. We have company."

Sasuke directed his gaze at Sansa and Joffrey and his eyes shifted from black to red and purple.

The girl turned to face the two and Sansa's face lit up with recognition and anger.

"Arya?" she called out incredulously.

"Go away," Arya shouted back at them, angry tears in her eyes. "What are you doing here, leave us alone."

Joffrey glanced from Arya to Sansa and back again.

"Your sister?" he asked.

Sansa nodded, blushing.

"Who are you to hit my lady's sister?" Joffrey asked Sasuke in a commanding tone.

Sasuke scowled.

"I'm her sword fighting instructor," he said.

"What happened to the butcher's boy?" asked Sansa.

"He's my friend too!" said Arya.

Joffrey leveled his sword at Sasuke. The two made eye contact and Joffrey dropped to the ground with a shriek. He clutched at his chest and dropped Lion's Tooth.

"Throw that away," Sasuke told Arya. "I don't trust him with it."

Arya hesitated briefly, then grabbed Lion's Tooth and threw it in the river.

"Leave, now," Sasuke commanded. "You might need help for him."

Sansa nodded and rode off to get help for Joffrey.

When she returned to the clearing, he still lay in the same place, but there was no sign of Arya or Sasuke.