Storm's End

Willas Tyrell entered the room where he and Sansa would be staying during their time at Storm's End, and tried to clear his mind of any nagging worries about why Oberyn would wish to speak to him so soon after they had arrived. He wondered what could be so urgent that his friend the unflappable Red Viper would be asking to speak with him, the crippled heir of Highgarden as soon as possible. Willas was taken away from his dark thoughts with the feeling of a hand on his arm, looking down he saw Sansa's eyes looking at him with a concerned look to them.

"Are you ok my love?" He heard Sansa ask.

"Yes love, sorry I was just thinking about why Prince Oberyn would wish to speak to me so soon after our arrival. Sorry if my brooding was worrying you." Willas replied.

Sansa gave him a tired smile and said "No harm done my love. Whatever it is that Prince Oberyn wishes to speak to you about, I'm sure we will find out soon. Come to bed?"

Willas was sorely tempted to follow Sansa to bed, to rest his leg which had been pounding with pain since they had left Highgarden, but he didn't wish to fall asleep before he had had the chance to speak with Oberyn and see what it was that had his friend so uptight. But looking at the way Sansa's hair fell down her face in loose braids and how she glowed, how she had been glowing since her pregnancy had grown Willas found himself acquiescing to her and saying "Ok but just for a few minutes. I can't have Oberyn coming to look for me and be fast asleep." So Willas followed Sansa to the bed and soon found himself wrapping a protective arm around Sansa and their unborn child, before closing his eyes and drifting off in to a much needed sleep.

What felt like only a few minutes later, Willas was startled awake by the sound of heavy knocking on the door to their room, lifting his head up from the pillow Willas snuck a quick peek at the window and saw that the sun had set and that it was most likely evening, he was about to wake Sansa up to inform her but the knocking at the door had become quite frantic now, Willas got up from the bed grumbling and grabbed his cane and walked toward the door. Opening it up just a crack, Willas found himself looking at Prince Oberyn's face, he had to bite back a gasp of surprise, but managed to hiss "Oberyn, what are you doing here? Its late, what time is it?"

Oberyn smirked at Willas before answering "Why my friend such a poor greeting. But if you must know dinner finished just an hour back, you and your wife's absence from the hall was noted by my nephew and his erstwhile hand. I trust all is well?"

Willas replied "Yes Oberyn all is well; we were just tired is all. You say dinner was an hour back, were my brother and his lady wife there?"

Oberyn merely nodded before saying "That is not the reason I came to speak with you though. Before you left with your wife I said that I wished to speak with you. Well if you would follow me, we need to speak." Willas looked over his shoulder to Sansa who was still fast asleep on the bed before following Oberyn out of the room, closing the door as softly as he could behind him, and was surprised to find himself walking toward the Lord's Solar where Renly had once spoken with himself and Garlan, one day many years ago.

As they entered the solar, Willas was surprised to note that Lord Connington, Prince Aegon's hand was also in the room as was a small slightly hunched balding man, who looked to be around Willas's father's age. Willas was about to ask what was going on when Oberyn pressed a finger to his lips and gestured for Willas to sit down in one of the chairs near the main table in the solar.

Willas did as he was asked and noted how Lord Connington visibly relaxed once he was seated before speaking "Lord Willas, Prince Oberyn thank you for joining us here. What I am about to say must remain in this room no one else can know. Not the prince nor the princess, no one can know. For what I am about to tell you is of grave importance and could decide whether or not the Prince ends up sitting on the Iron Throne at the end of this war." Connington continued "I have received news from my sources in the capital that the Lannister whore has asked for Gregor Clegane and his men to return to King's Landing to shore up the defences, and that she has also placed casks of Wildfire within the city and is most likely trying to persuade the Vale to finally join the war. However, that is not the most pressing of our concerns. My friend here (Connington indicated the small hunched man who was sitting in the corner) has word that Danaerys Targaryen has landed in Lys alongside Euron Greyjoy and the Iron Fleet, word is that she is planning on landing in Westeros and may plan an invasion on the main land either from attacking the Westerlands or going straight for the capital. This would not be so much of a problem if she were not with child, the Crow's Eyes child. Meaning that the man will not rest till all other contenders are dead."

Willas was shocked he had not expecting to hear this piece of news, if the Crow's Eye was married to Danaerys Targaryen then, there was a very severe risk that the seven kingdoms could be plunged into an even greater war than they currently were, especially with Danaerys' dragons and her unsullied, the kingdoms would bleed and at the end of it all no one really knew what the best outcome would be.

Prince Oberyn was the first to break the silence asking "And what is it you wish for us to do, Lord Connington?"

Lord Connington sighed and said "Marshal your men from the Prince's Pass and from the Reach, the Golden Company is ready to march already, the Stormlords will fight for us for the promise of one of their own becoming Lord of Storm's End, we need to march on King's Landing and take it before Danaerys Targaryen sails from Lys."

"What do we do when she finally sets sail from Lys as she will do once she hears about King's Landing falling?" Willas asked.

Lord Connington gave Willas a grim smile and said "She won't make it from Lys."

The Vale

Three weeks after Harry the heir went on his hunting trip, his body was discovered by the mountain clans stashed away in a cave in the Mountains of the Moon. His body was found with severe gashes in it making it look like he had been attacked by a deer or even a boar whilst out hunting. His two companions Lothor and Desmond Brune both told Lord Baelish the Lord Protector of the Vale that Harry had been drinking during the hunt, and had drunken lunged after an animal that they had been unable to clearly see because of the snow that had been falling, Harry had fallen of off his horse and had been severly gouged by the said animal. When asked why they had not immediately gone to find help both Brunes replied that they had not been with Harry when he had fallen off of his horse as he had sent them on to get some fire to light their way back home, and had been unable to find him after hours of searching, and had thus decided to return back to the Gates of the Moon as they believed that Harry would have returned there. The Lords Declarant lead by Lord Corbray believed the tale told by Lothor and Desmond Brune, and accepted Lord Baelish's request that Lord Robert's younger half sibling be made his heir, the other half of the Lords Declarant led by Lord Bronze Yohn Royce openly rejected the Brunes statement and began a subtle inquiry into the exact nature of Harry the Heir's death and any possible reason for him to go out on a hunting trip in the middle of Winter.

The Lords of the Vale were now thoroughly divided and Lord Baelish had started the next move in his grand plan of chaos, he had sent a emissary to Lys to treat with Danaerys Targaryen, in exchange for the fealty of the Vale Danaerys would give Lord Baelish exactly what he wanted, Sansa Stark.

King's Landing

"So you are saying that you do not know where your brothers and their wives are, and you have no idea why your grandmother would marry your sister off to a traitor to the Iron Throne?" Cersei Lannister asked from her gilded chair just in front of the Iron Throne in front of half the court.

"No your grace, I do not know, and as I have told yourself and Maester Qyburn when he asked me the same questions, as a knight of the Kingsguard I am loyal only to his grace King Tommem Baratheon, the first of his name. I know not of my family's reasons for their actions your grace." Ser Loras Tyrell replied.

Varys could tell that Cersei was not convinced but that she did not have enough reason to justify having Ser Loras thrown into the black cells, like she wanted to without risking the open ire of Highgarden. For much like the North the Reach would not react well to one of their own being accused of treason, and with winter here and the Lannister forces nonexistent apart from 200 or so men being led by Gregor Clegane back to the capital, the Iron Throne had no strength to fight an open war with Highgarden. Varys of course knew that the Tyrells were already riding to Storm's End to pledge their fealty to Aegon, which would given the prince enough men to easily take the capital and remove the Lannisters from power once and for all.

"Even so, we have reason to believe that you are or were aware of a plot to remove a member of the small council to increase your father's power in the capital and for that act we are removing you of your white cloak and demanding that you return to Highgarden as soon as possible." Cersei Lannister said.

Varys kept his face neutral but internally he was very, very smug, the plot that Cersei spoke of was a fabrication of his, there was no such plot but it was in Varys' interests to play on Cersei's growing paranoia and to increase the enmity between the Iron Throne and the Reach so that they would feel more comfortable when the time came to go to war.

Now there was only Pycelle and Littlefinger to worry about.

Bravos

A rather fat man who was a rather successful cheesemonger had just gotten off of a ship from Pentos and was making his way through the streets of Bravos, all the while discreetly looking over his shoulder to make sure that he was not being followed by any mockingbirds. Once he reached his desired location he knocked on the front door, and waited for the slit at the top of the door to open and when it did he said as quietly as possible "Valar Morghulis." To which the pair of eyes looking at him through the slit in the door replied "Valar Dohaeris, " and opened the big iron door, allowing the fat cheesemonger to enter.

As the cheesemonger walked through the door he made the ancient Essos sign to ward of evil and then continued walking through the hallways of the building until he came to stand in front of the statue of the many faced god, he stood in front of the statue for a few moments before he heard a man say to him "A man needs a name."

To which he replied "Danaerys Targaryen."