Kings Die Like Flies
Kaegan Drace
King's Landing….
Kae looked over the massive group standing before him, men dressed in mail armour and wrapped in thick woollen, gold-dyed cloaks, the city watch of king's landing and they were all his to command.
Kae stood high on the steps leading to the western Barracks, so that they could all see him well, flanking him to his right to his left stood Cooper, a veteran of the gold cloaks for fifty years, his grey-white hair was balding, many of his teeth were missing and he had a thick bushy moustache, Cooper was one of the few men who had not been corrupted by Janos slynt, as he still believed in his proper duties as a man of the city watch and for that Kae had made him his second in command.
Standing to Kae's left was another man by the name Aden Tanner, unlike Cooper, Alyn was closer to age with Kae, he had blonde hair but not like the Lannister, his was darker and dirtier, his face was handsome enough but his nose had clearly been broken on more than one occasion, he joined the city watch only a few months after Kae, he was arrogant, rude and had a witty tongue. However unlike most this was not without proper cause, he was also a competent fighter, he had a sharp mind when dealing with criminals, Kae knew he was brave because during the battle of blackwater when the boy Joffrey fled and many of the men joined him Aden instead led the defence of the Mud Gate until Lord Tywin arrived.
I may not trust him Kae thought But I trust his dedication to the city. And for that, he had also earned a place at Kae's side.
"Some of you know me!" Kae calls out to the gathered crowd "The rest of you will learn, I am Ser Kaegan of House Drace your new Lord Commander!"
He could tell many of them were unhappy by this, many of them had been in the city watch for decades, others were simply older and saw Kae as nothing but a boy...he would show them different "I assume that at least one of you can tell me who the Kingsguard are!" Kae continues, they all look confused by the question but one man steps forward to answer.
"They are the brotherhood of knights who protects the king" the man answers.
"They are!" Kae says with a nod "Some will tell you that they have the most important duty in the kingdom but I will tell you that we have a far greater task, the Kingsguard protect a single man, we protect half a million people That is the most important duty in the kingdom...and many of you seem to have forgotten that duty" Kae pulls out a list of names "Step forward if you hear your name being called! Rolan! Myken! Mole! Timmon! Fryn! Dake! Pissbreath! Eel! Warne! Orland! Barrock! Morsh! Licker! Dunsen!
The fourteen men all come to step forward, Kae steps fourth and inspects them all "When I became Lord Commander I was told you men had much in common, And I am inclined to agree" Kae turns back to his list and begins angrily reading off it "Bribery, extortion, thievery! rape! Murder! SCUM!" Kae screams at them before throwing his list at them. "And to add to it all, each one of you fled during the battle of the blackwater! You disgrace the city watch, get out of my sight!"
"What makes you think you can make us leave boy?" one of them spits.
Kae gives the former Goldcloak a dangerous grin "Cooper!" he calls.
The older man whistles and thirty more Goldcloaks step forward, they draw the weapons and surround their former colleagues "Escort these degenerates out of the city, kill any who resist" Kae orders
As the men are led away Kae changes his mind "Wait, this is not right!" he calls "The are criminals, take them to black cells!" he turns to the rest of the goldcloaks and ends his display with a simple "Dismissed"
He turns to move into the Barracks, Cooper and Aden follow closely behind "That was quite the introduction Commander" Aden says with a smirk "I certainly enjoyed it"
"The men won't forget that" Cooper grumbles.
"Yes, I believe that was the intention" Aden replies.
"Don't get witty with me Tanner" the older man growls "I've been in the city watch long enough to know what happens when a Lord Commander makes an enemy of his men"
"They need to see that I am no Janos Slynt," Kae says "And I am certainly not the Imp's cutthroat sellsword"
"The Goldcloaks have been corrupt since Robert Baratheon took the Iron Throne," Cooper says "A display like that will not suddenly reform them"
"But it will make them think twice the next time they want to break the law" Kae says, finally turning to the two "You two have both proven to be worthy of the gold cloak, which is why I am making you Aden the Captain of the Mud Gate and you Cooper, will be Captain of the Dragon Gate"
Cooper gives him a salute and Aden only grins.
"Now we must go," Kae says with a roll of his eyes "There is a royal wedding that needs attending"
Mia Stark
Esoss….
Mia grunted as Harwin knocked her off her feet. Since The Prince had secured the fealty of the Golden Company, they had been marching back to Pentos, it took far longer now that they were travelling with ten-thousand men, they were currently camped a few miles from the free city, as close to Illyrio's Manse as possible without worrying the other Magisters.
Night had fallen and Mia found that this was the best time to train her combat abilities, she spent the days talking with as many soldiers of the golden company, the idea was put forward by Harwin who "You have no army of your own Princess" he said "So you should give these men a reason to fight for you when the time comes.
Mia took the advice, every morning after she broke her fast, she found a new soldier to talk to, most of them instantly recognised her by her purple eyes and missing fingers and by the fact that she was one of the few women in the camp, she asked them their names, their stories, if they had any family, she asked anything to get to know them, they were nervous at first but she eased their tension with her warmest smile and her sweetest words, By the time it was done, they were practically smitten with her.
"Have you found someone for Arya yet?" Mia asks Harwin as she jumps back to her feet.
"Aye" Harwin answers, narrowly dodging a blow from Mia's practice blade "The men speak of Qartheen man who roams the camp, they tell me he was part of a guild called the sorrowful men"
"Have him brought to me in the morning?" Mia says "I want to see him for myself first"
"Yes, my lady" Harwin nods.
They continuing their sparring for a while longer before a gruff voice calls "You trying to teach how to fight or how to die?"
Harwin and Mia turn to see the Hound leaning against a post with a flagon of wine in his hand "I do not get your meaning" Harwin replies in a sour tone.
"You keep teaching her like that and the pup will find her pretty little head being split in half by the first cunt who knows how to hold a sword"
"The Princess knows how to fight" Harwin defends "I am merely—"
"Showing her how to get killed" The hound cuts in "Aye she'll be able to fight a duel but in a real battle when she's surrounded by hundreds of hardened killers you think dancing around like that is going to help?" he then takes a swig of wine and mutters "dumb cunt"
Harwin has turned red with anger, Mia takes the sparring sword from his hand and offers it to the Hound "Then why don't you show him how it's done" she says.
"I have better things to do than play around with you pup The hound snorts.
"What drinking or sleeping?" Mia scoffs.
The Hound stands and glares at her and once again Mia feels like a scared little girl 'why does he have this effect on me?' she thought, Harwin, sensing her discomfort, stepped forward to defend her but she gently moved him away as the Hound came over to her.
"Do I frighten you?" he asks, when she doesn't answer he sneers and takes one of the practice swords from her hand "Come on then, let's see what you daddy taught you when he still had a head"
His comment makes Mia burn with anger, she charges forward with her sword raised, but the much larger man easily parried the blow before kicking her legs from under her and knocking her to the ground with a grunt.
"That's the same kind of temper that almost got you killed against my brother," The Hound says "You wanna little pup? Not gonna be much use to your dead brother then"
Mia growled as she stood up, her face flushed with anger, she charged again swinging her blade a few times but the Hound deflected every blow, before smashing, his mailed fist into her mouth, knocking her down again.
This time Harwin stepped forward, a real sword drawn, The Hound moved to defend herself as Mia spat blood on to the ground "Is this your entire plan?" the Hound asks her, keeping an eye on Harwin "Put on a little show of bravery then cower behind your man as soon as someone threatens you?"
"Harwin get back!" Mia commands, blood dribbling down her chin.
Harwin looks horrified "Princess I—"
"I said get back!" Mia says louder, she gets back up to her feet and raises her sword again, the Hound turns back to her.
The Hound sneers again "I could easily snap that pretty little neck of yours if I wanted" he then gestures to Harwin "And there's nothing that cocksucker could do about it"
Mia moves against the Hound again, swinging at him the same way as she did before, however, when he tries to smack her down, she ducks and with all her might smashes her boot into his knee, he grunts and stumbles, while his guard is down Mia swings her blade and smashes it into the charred side of his face.
The Hound stumbles but refuses to fall, he spits out blood and laughs "The pup is growing her fangs" he says,
"If this was a real sword you would be dead," Mia says.
The Hound snorts "If it was a real sword you never would have had the chance" he says before dropping the practice sword before marching off.
Mia turns to Harwin who is watching the hound furiously as he walks off "A man should not speak to a princess that way"
"People have spoken to me far worse than that" Mia counters
"A different time" Harwin states.
Mia nods sadly "Aye it was"
She looks up at her protector and smiles, despite his tendency to be overprotective of her, Mia genuinely felt safer knowing that Harwin was always there to watch over her, she puts a gentle hand on his arm "Get some rest" she says "I'll need you early tomorrow"
He nods "Yes my lady," he says before leaving for her own tent. Mia makes for her own tent but upon entering it finds someone already there.
A man stood in the centre of her tent, he was thin but fit and impossibly tall, larger than Harwin and even the Hound, his head was shaved bald, in fact he had no eyebrows as well, there was not a single trace of hair on his body, his eyes were grey, practically colourless, his skin was the colour of milk and his lips were stained a deep blue, he wore black robes laced with gold and bore a demented smile on his face that sent shivers down Mia's spine.
"My Princess of Winter," he said with a bow, his voice was cold but oddly soothing in exact contrast with his appearance.
"Who are you? Mia demands "Why are you here?"
The tall man's grin becomes wider, Mia then saw that his teeth were a perfect white but is tongue was rotting black "You already know who I am Purple Princess" he states, crossing his arms behind his back.
"What?" Mia says in confusion "I don't—"
The pale man steps towards her table, she notices that his footsteps make no noise as he trots through the tent "Would like a drink?" he asks, offering her a jewelled cup that did not belong to her.
"No," Mia says, her voice coming out slightly weak "Tell me who you are!"
The pale man laughs "That oaf you took for a bodyguard, did he not yet speak of me?"
Mia nods in realization "You are the Qartheen" he said "The sorrowful man"
The pale man's grey eyes light up with glee "I believe you wished to speak with me" he said
How did he know that? Mia thought "I was going to send Harwin to find you in the morning," she says.
"Yes my apologies," the Sorrowful Man says, his joyful expression changing to one of what seemed to be genuine guilt "But I fear that I have been much too excited to meet you to wait any longer"
"Well you're here now," Mia says, quickly glancing to her sword which rested on her bed "So what can you offer me and my sister?"
The Sorrowful Man's grin returns "Oh many things Purple Princess" he says happily "You want revenge against the lions for what they did to your family but so does the little one, grant me your blessing and the child will become a living shadow, a dagger in the dark to strike down your enemies"
So she would become an assassin Mia thought gods be good what would Lady Stark think of this?
"And what would you get in return for this...service?" Mia says cautiously
The Sorrowful Man once again grabs the jewelled cup and offers it to her "All that I ask is that you take a sip"
Mia takes the cup and looked inside, the liquid was blue like the Sorrowful Man's lips, it was oily and thick like honey, she took a sniff and recoiled at the smell of rotting flesh, she eyes the Sorrowful Man suspiciously.
"I do not mean to poison you Purple Princess" he assures "The shade-of-the-evening will not kill you, it will merely clear your eyes and unstop your ears"
With a deep breath Mia raised the cup to her lips, the sip tasted like ink and spoiled meat, she almost spat it out but instead forced it down her throat, almost immediately a strange sensation began to overwhelm her, it was neither painful nor pleasurable, it spread from her chest throughout her whole body, on her tongue she tasted wine and mutton, honey, milk, lemonwater, the kidney pies that Old Nan used to make at Winterfell and the sweets her father would give her when she was young, she tasted blood and flesh from when she bit one of the Freys when they tore the dress from her body after the red wedding, it was all the tastes she had ever known.
The sensation was so overwhelming that Mia fell to her knees and clenched her eyes shut "Do not fight it, Purple Princess,," She heard the Sorrowful Man tells her "Embrace it" His voice was nothing but a whisper compared to the drumming that was going on in her skull, she held the sides of her head in her hands in an effort to make it stop but it only grew.
And then as quickly as it came, it was gone, Mia opened her eyes and looked up at the Sorrowful Man he gave her a final blue smile before the darkness took her and she collapsed onto the ground.
Kaegan Drace
King's Landing….
Kae stood in the Great Sept of Baelor with countless of other nobles close to the rear as Lord Mace Tyrell walked his beautiful daughter the soon-to-be-queen Margaery down the aisle, the young woman truly was the most enchanting woman Kae had ever seen and she was kind as well, granting bread and water to the poor and starving, speaking to the children orphaned by the Battle of the Blackwater 'she will be a magnificent queen' Kae thought 'a shame that it will not last'
She took the arm of the boy-king Joffrey, who gave an arrogant smirk as they turned to the High Septon who called out to the crowd "Let it be known that Margaery of the House Tyrell and Joffrey of the Houses Lannister and Baratheon are one heart, one flesh, one soul, cursed be he who would seek to tear them asunder!"
The vicious bastard turned to his bride and said "With this kiss, I pledge" he then kissed the young woman and the crowd began applauding.
Later at the royal feast Kae was speaking with the new Queen's cousins Megga and Elinor Tyrell, the former was fat and far too loud but Elinor, while not as near beautiful as Queen Margaery, was very pretty, she laughed at Kae's japes and listened intently to his stories, every now and then she would playfully touch his arm, when Megga realised that Kae was more interested in her cousin then her she left the two to speak alone.
"Is it true that you've expelled a group of goldcloaks from the city watch?" Elinor asks.
Word travels fast in this city Kae reminded himself "Aye it is my lady" he says "They were corrupt criminals who spread poison through the city watch, I could not abide them any longer"
"To have such men a part order that is supposed to protect us" Elinor shakes her head before giving Kae a sweet smile "I will sleep more soundly at night knowing you are now Lord Commander Ser Kaegan"
Ever since Kae had come to King's Landing he had grown used to the attraction he got from these highborn ladies Kae The Comely indeed he thought.
"Forgive me my lady" Kae says to Elinor "As much it hurts me to do so I must leave your company to pay my respects to the royal couple" the girl looks disappointed but perks up when Kae lifts her hand kisses it, he then leaves her with a smile she is sweet but a fool Kae decides a sweet little fool.
Kae makes his way the high table, where the so-called royal family sat, there the boy-king Joffrey sat with his new bride, the queen-regent Cersei sat on the left side of them looking quite irritated "Your Grace" Kae bows before Joffrey before turning to his new consort "Queen Margaery" out of the corner of his eye, Kae sees Cersei stiffen at the sound of her good daughter's new title.
"Ser Kaegan" Queen Margaery greets with a smile, Joffrey merely gives him a nod "How is your new appointment as Lord Commander of the City Watch?"
"I can only hope that I am worthy of the honour your grace" Kae answer
"Judging by the purges you have begun to commit you may not be Lord Commander of many men soon enough" Queen Cersei says.
"The men I arrest are criminals your grace" Kae defends "violent and corrupt men who should never have been brought into the watch"
"We are so grateful to you for working to make our beloved city a better place Ser Kaegan," Queen Margaery says "King's landing is truly blessed to have an honourable knight like you"
Kae nods "Your words are too kind your grace" he says "I merely wanted to congratulate you both on this happy day, I do not have the coin to purchases you a magnificent gift as these great lords can but know that as long as I am Commander of the City Watch the city will be protected"
"Yes, yes that's very good Ser Kaegan thank you," The boy-king says rudely.
Margaery, on the other hand, smiles brightly at him "Thank the gods for a knight as valiant as you Ser Kaegan" she says "Now please do not let us keep you, enjoy the feast"
Kae nods and bows, the words "Your graces" slip from his lips and he then leaves,
He sees Aden and Cooper guarding one of the entrances to the feast and walks over towards them, while Kae was invited as a guest, his companions were only here as guards "You seem quite popular among the Tyrell ladies" Aden says with a smirk.
Kae ignores that and turns to Cooper "Seen anything suspicious?" he asks.
The older goldcloak shakes his head "No m'lord everything is quiet, just the way I like it"
"Do you really think someone would make a move on Joffrey here?" Aden asks "He's surrounded by his Kingsguard"
"He was surrounded by his Kingsguard during the riot" Kae reminds "Look at the body of Ser Preston Greenfield and tell me how much the presence of a Kingsguard dissuades a vengeful man then"
Kae then inspects the feast, his eyes falling upon The Red Viper and his paramour "Keep an eye on Prince Oberyn, his hatred of the Lannister's is well known" Kae tells his companions before turning to another member of the feast "And the Lady Sansa as well, she has more reason than most to hate Joffrey.
"Everyone silence! clear the floor!" The vicious bastard suddenly shouts, the music stopped and everyone took their seats including Kae, the boy-king continued "There's been too much amusement here today, a royal wedding is not an amusement, a royal wedding is history. The time has come for us to contemplate our history" as he spoke the massive lion head opened its mouth "My lords, my ladies, I give you King Joffrey, Renly, Stannis, Robb Stark, Balon Greyjoy, the War of the Five Kings"
Five dwarfs, dressed in ridiculous costumes came riding out, the one dressed as Balon Greyjoy wore a Kraken, Stannis wore the Red Priestess, Robb wore a direwolf, Renly wore a bare-bottomed Loras Tyrell and Joffrey wore a crowned lion.
The dwarf-Joffrey looked out to the crowd and called "Let the war begin!"
The dwarfs then engaged in a degrading and quite frankly pathetic interpretation of the War of the Five Kings, the boy-king laughed hysterically at the sight and when the King laughs his court laughs with him.
Kae did not join them though, he had no love for the dwarfs but it still disgusted him that these so-called nobles would find a juvenile act like this amusing. He looked around to see he wasn't the only one who found this disgusting, notably the spider Lord Varys who closed his eyes and frowned, Ser Jamie also shook his head at the sight, Olenna Tyrell frowned as well, her grandson Ser Loras got up from his seat and stormed off, Queen Margaery looked uncomfortable but laughed dutifully when her new husband looked at her, Lady Sansa watched with a blank expression.
The dwarf dressed as Joffrey inevitably wins, each of them takes a bow before the boy-king stands from his chair "Well fought" he says "Well fought, here you are, the champion's purse...though you're not the champion yet are you? A true champion defeats all the challengers, surely there are others out there who still dare to challenge me reign" the bastard then turns to Lord Tyrion and gives him a vicious grin "Uncle how about you? I'm sure they have a spare costume"
The Imp stands from his seat "One taste of combat was enough for me your grace" he says "I would like to keep what remains of my face but I think you should fight him, this was but a poor imitation of your own bravery on the field of battle, I speak as a firsthand witness" Kae had to smirk at that, he too watched Joffrey retreat in terror at the battle of the blackwater, making up stupid excuses as he fled.
"Climb down from the high table with your new valyrian sword" Tyrion continues "And show everyone how a true king wins his throne"
The King's smile is gone by now, he grabs his wine cup and walks behind his uncle spilling its contents over his head as everyone watches awkwardly "A fine vintage" Tyrion says "A shame that it spilled"
"It did not spill" Joffrey spat.
"My love, come back to me" Queen Margaery calls trying to calm the situation "It's time for my father's toast"
Joffrey scoffs "How does he expect me to toast without wine?" he says "Uncle you shall be my new cupbearer"
"Your grace does me a great honour," Tyrion says with a smile.
"It's not meant as an honour" the bastard replies venomously.
Tyrion sighs and moves towards the boy-king who drops the cup and kicks it away as Tyrion tries to grab it, people laugh as the Imp crawls under the table to try and find it, Kae himself feels half tempted to help the little Lannister but restrains himself.
Eventually,his wife the Lady Sansa stands from his chair and helps her husband find the cup too which he nods gratefully at her She still has good heart Kae thought, Even after all she's been through.
Tyrion sighs and brings the boy-king his cup "What good is an empty cup?" Joffrey mocks "Fill it"
The Imp obeys and tries once again to hand his nephew the cup "Kneel" Joffrey demands "Kneel before your king".
To Kae's surprise Lord Tyrion does not move, he just stands there holding the cup out and staring the boy-king down "Kneel" Joffrey demands again and again the Imp refuses, by now Joffrey is red with anger "I said KNEEL!"
"Look the pie!" Queen Margaery calls, Kae turns to see the largest pigeon pie he'd ever seen being brought forth, this distracts the boy-king away from his uncle, he draws his new valyrian-steel sword that he named Widow's Wail and sliced the pie open, Kae dutifully clapped along with the rest of the nobles as Margaery fed her husband a piece of it.
"Uncle!" The boy-king called out as he noticed Tyrion and Lady Sansa trying to leave "Where are you going?"
The Imp turns back "I thought I might change out of these wet clothes your grace"
"No, no, no" Joffrey says with a laugh "I like you better this way, serve me my wine"
Tyrion fills the cup and hands it to the boy-king who takes large gulps from it "Your grace please" Tyrion sighs "Lady Sansa is very tired"
"No!" Joffrey says before letting out a cough "No you'll…" another cough "You'll wait here..un...until"
By now the king was coughing uncontrollably, he drank more wine but that only seemed to make the coughing worse Kae leaned forward in his chair and Tyrion took a concerned step towards his nephew "You grace?"
"It...it's nothing...the pie it's...nothing" the king says coughing violently between his words, he tried to take another drink but the wine came spewing out his mouth, in another fit of coughing by now his face was turning red.
"He's choking!" Queen Margaery cried.
Lady Olenna comes to her granddaughter's side "Help the poor boy!" she yelled, "Idiots help your king!"
"Move away!" Jamie Lannister shouted, shoving guests aside as the king collapsed to the ground, Kae ran forward as well and began to pound the king on the back, Ser Osmund Kettleblack ripped open the boy's collar "Fetch Pycelle!" Kae yelled at Aden "Fetch him now!"
For once the witty man had no comment and merely ran to his task.
"Help me turn him over" Ser Jamie," told Kae, together they flipped the king on his back, Ser Osmund jammed a spoon down the boy's throat but it did no good, Joffrey began to claw at his throat, tearing bloody pieces of flesh from it.
Queen Cersei came running forward, shoving Kae, Ser Osmund and Ser Jamie back "Get away!" she screamed, "Don't touch him!"
As she cradled her son in her lap, Kae saw that his face had turned purple, blood was seeping from his nose, mouth and eyes, a look of pure terror was fixed on his face. This isn't the work of a simple pigeon pie Kae thought The King has been poisoned
Kae stumbled away from the horrible sight The boy is only nineteen...the same age as Jace the thought of his sweet little sister being in this situation was enough to bring tears to his eyes.
Joffrey lifted a hand, pointing at Lord Tyrion who lifted the King's cup from the ground, Queen Margaery was weeping into her grandmother's shoulder, Cooper gathered some goldcloaks to keep the crowd back, finally, the boy-king stopped moving, Cersei let out a scream and just like that it was over.
"He did this!" Cersei said venomously pointing at Tyrion just as Joffrey had "He poisoned my son, Your King, Take him! Take him!, TAKE HIM!"
The Kingsguard Ser Balon Swann, Ser Meryn Trant and Ser Osmund Kettleblack grab the imp and drag him off as he glares at his sister.
"Where is his wife?" Cersei demands, Kae looks around to see that Ned Stark's daughter was nowhere to be found "Where's Sansa?"
"Find her!" Lord Tywin orders Kae "Bar the gates of the city seize every ship in the harbour"
"WHERE IS SHE!" Cersei screams.
"No one leaves the capital!" Tywin yells "No one!"
Kae leaves the feast with his goldcloaks "Gather our men" Kae orders Cooper "Search every corner of the city"
"How many men?" Cooper asks.
"As many as we have" Kae answers.
Not even taking the time to dress in his armour, within a matter of minutes, the bells were ringing and he and his men were tearing the city apart looking for the Stark girl, after almost an hour, a voice calls out "Commander!" Kae turns to see Aden and five other men, marching over to him.
"Did you find her?" Kae asks.
Aden shakes his head, his usual smug smile replaced by a serious frown "No but we think she escaped with the help of Dontos Hollard"
"The King's fool?" Kae asks "Bring him to me, I want to have a word with him"
"He's dead Ser," Aden says "We found his body, burning and feathered with crossbow bolts on the boat in the blackwater"
"Oh, seven fucking hells!" Kae shouts, running his hands through his hair "Who could have done this?"
Mia Stark
Essos….
Darkness, that was all Mia could see, she wondered an empty void, for hours, days, weeks she did not know, all she felt was fear Am I? dead she thought Is this what death is? Nothing? Oblivion? Is Robb here?
Of course you are a dead a voice seemed to mock her from the darkness the Sorrowful Man poisoned you he was an assassin sent by Lord Tywin or Queen Cersei and like a fool you took the drink from him even though you knew it was poison, he's probably killed Arya by now as well and you are to blame, it seems you are not only a bastard but a fool Mia Snow.
"SHUT UP!" Mia screamed at the voice in her head, a sharp pain was stabbing at her skull, she clenched eyes shut for what felt like an eternity.
When she opened them she was no longer in darkness but a field of golden roses, nearby a lion was roaring in agony, golden thorns wrapped around the beast's body, circled and tightened around its neck, suffocating it and causing blood to pour from its wounds.
As quickly as Mia saw it the image was gone, and now she was in a dark cell, layers of snow covered the ground and a dark and cold smoke emitted from the walls, standing in the darkest corner of the cell was a man Mia did not recognize, every inch of his skin was dripping with blood, his eyes showed pure evil, his mouth was fixed into an unnaturally large and cruel smile, in his hand he held a bloody knife, he stood over a cowering wolf which was covered in bleeding cuts. The man looked directly at Mia laughed sadistically, the wolf let a horrible howl of terror.
Mia turned away in fear and saw yet another vision, this time she saw three dragons, flying above the clouds, the sky was lit up with their fire, they tore and bit at each other, tearing chunks of flesh from one another and burning each other with their Dragonfire.
"STOP IT!" Mia screamed all she felt was fear, tears were streaming down her face and landing on the empty ground below, her legs felt like jelly she fell to her knees and began to sob. She wanted to leave, she wanted to run away from this horrible place and never come back but she couldn't move.
Then she felt something warm and gentle touch her cheek, Mia looked up to see a woman standing before her. The woman was tall and beautiful, she wore a purple dress decorated with white stars, her eyes were also purple but not like Mia's this woman's eyes were much deeper, much darker even, her hair was dark almost black, her skin was pale like Mia's and her smile was gentle and kind.
"Mother?" Mia asks the fear she felt moments earlier suddenly disappearing, the woman seemed to smile brighter as Mia said this, she reached out offering a hand, Mia took it and the woman helped Mia to her feet, her thumb seemed to gently rub the stumps on Mia's missing fingers, her other hand reached up and began to caress Mia's cheek.
"My girl" the woman says her voice quiet and soothing "My beautiful little Mia, look how you've grown"
The woman's smile disappeared suddenly replaced by a sad frown, "You need to wake up sweet one," she says. "You cannot stay here"
"What? I don't—" before Mia could speak any more the woman was gone.
She woke was a gasp, Harwin was standing over with a panicked look on his face, his large hands were gripping her shoulders when he saw her eyes open the fear left his face "What are you doing?" Mia demands.
"M'lady," Harwin says letting go of her shoulders "I could not wake you...you would not wake I…"
Mia looks around she was on her bed instead of on the ground where she collapsed but there was no sign of the Sorrowful Man "Why were you trying to wake me?" Mia asks, has something happened?"
"The Prince Aegon has received word from King's Landing," Harwin says "He has asked for you"
Mia gets up and leaves the tent, she makes her way towards the centre of the camp where the War tent was stationed, inside were all the leaders of the golden company, Harry Strickland, Lysono Maar, Black Balaq, Gorys Edroyen as well as the Serjeants Ser Franklyn Flowers, Ser Denys Strong and Ser Aegor Drace, his eldest son Gaemon who was taller than any man there and Ser Rolly Duckfield.
Standing at the centre of them all beside Jon Connington was the prince Aegon, who bore a large grin on his face.
"Prince Aegon what has happened?" Mia asks.
"This is a great day Princess Mia" Aegon answers before turning to address the entire crowd "The false king Joffrey is dead!"
A lot of cannon content in this chapter, which despite how much I do it I'm not a massive fan of putting it into my fan
fic, after all this, is meant to be my story but it is necessary for my ultimate plan...anyway Mia and Aegon will be returning to Westeros soon enough and when they do everything will change I promise you guys that...