Chapter 21
"My sister is dead," Tyrion exhaled. He didn't know how to feel about it. He hated her, she certainly hated him. But he knew that Jaime had loved her. And Jaime...
"If Jaime's killed her, then… oh no. No no no. Jaime, you damned fool," he felt himself beginning to lose his balance, realizing what it meant.
"I don't understand, what's wrong?" Daenerys said, catching him on one side, as Missandei caught the other. They sat with him on the floor of the tent.
"Jaime… he's dead too," Tyrion said, the tears streaming down his face.
"Oh, Tyrion," she said, her eyes welling up with tears at the sight of Tyrion's grief. She pulled him into her arms. "I'm so sorry. I'm so so sorry."
Missandei gently took the scroll from Tyrion's hands and examined it. "My Queen, there is more on this scroll. We need to secure King's Landing and then send the forces North immediately."
"I apologize. What have I missed?" Tyrion asked, wiping his face on his sleeves.
Daenerys took the scroll and read it. "The Wall may be breached. It's Cersei's parting gift to the world, unleashing the dead upon us."
The horns blew at Castle Black as a figure of a wildling woman pulling a sled with a wildling man upon it came into view. Eddison Tollett, the 999th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, had been walking the Wall when he saw them approach.
Once they were satisfied the couple posed no threat, and were not under the control of the Night's King, he let them in the gate.
"I'm Lord Commander Tollett. You two are to go to Eastwatch," he said. "The rest of the free folk are there."
"We aren't wildlings," Meera said. "I'm Lady Meera of House Reed. This is Lord Brandon of House Stark. Is his brother Jon Snow here?"
He looked at her, then at Bran, incredulous. "My Lady, how long have you two been wandering beyond the wall?"
She shook her head. "I don't even know. But it's been years."
"Jon Snow isn't here any long. He's the King in the North now. And he isn't Jon Snow. He's…"
"Jon Targaryen. I know," Bran said. "The Night's King is coming. It won't be long now. You need to send word to all the Houses. The war is coming, and the Wall will fall."
Dolorous Edd sent ravens to all of the Houses as instructed, and the next day sent a wagon south to Winterfell, carrying Meera and Bran. He wasn't sure he believed the Wall would fall, but he wasn't taking any chances on being alone.
However, the word he received back was both good and terrifying. Cersei was dead, Daenerys was now Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, and the new Queen would send every available soldier to the North, including the Dothraki and the Unsullied, and would come herself, along with her dragons.
It was only hours after he had sent all rangers out along the south side of the Wall to look for saboteurs that a green light ripped through the wall, coming from the West. They barely had time to evacuate before Castle Black was destroyed, and the Wall came down.