I AM SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY!

It's been 5 months and I am disgusted that it took me so long. As you can see, this is not a chapter, but an interlude. I feel like much has happened since the start of the story, and it's been years since I wrote the chapters, so I think it's pretty forgettable. I know I forget it sometimes.

So I summarized the recent/important bits.

The actual chapter will be out by tomorrow :D

The plot is mine, as is Maeve and Edrick.


VOWS RECAP!

Maeve wandered the back roads of the west for like 2 months after escaping her religious companions, before meeting Tally, Dorna and Tally's father. She promised to pay him if he gave her a ride to the nearest town. On their journey, she made friends with the two girls, but one night, Lannister soldiers ambushed them, killing the father, knocking Dorna out and about to rape Tally and Maeve. Ghost (Jon in Ghosts' body) came and saved them, and protected them and provided for them the rest of the way. In GT, Tally got Maeve a job in a tavern with her, and Maeve had a hard time adjusting. When Golden Tooth was evacuated without warning while Maeve was in labour, and was left behind by her friends, only then to give birth in a sept while battle raged on outside.

Jon has been colder since Maeve was taken away, blaming himself, his brother, the gods, the sept, for what happened. One night, after weeks of missing Maeve and feeling lonely and guilty, Jon slept with another woman. He nearly died in the battle of Golden Tooth because he was worried about Robb and got distracted, but was saved by Ghost. Ghost also led him to find Arya and subsequently Maeve.

Jon and Maeve and Arya and Edrick ran through battle torn streets, lost Ghost in the chaos, and wound up in an abandoned fabric shop. Maeve suffered a postpartum hemorrhage that was quickly absolved, but left her very weak and delirious. Jon told Arya about his relationship with her and about fathering Edrick, much to Arya's confusion. After finding out that Jon was going to take them to Robb, Maeve got angry and accidentally informed Arya about what Robb put her through the last time she saw him, horrifying Arya and angering Jon. Now Maeve and Jon are trying to figure out what their relationship is now that they're together and have a child, if they love each other, and what this means going forward.

The Stark Army rests at Golden Tooth. Robb Stark was told that the West would yield to him in exchange for self governance and the ability to destroy the Lannisters, who are considered the Wests' shame and biggest threat. To assure this, the western lords sent their heirs to Robb and the "sole heir" to House Reyne, Garrett, who wants to lead the west in this alliance. House Reyne and Tarbeck, who were destroyed by Tywin after a failed rebellion, are seen as fools and martyrs in the west. The Lannisters have made life in the west very difficult financially, and most of it was left unguarded after Cersei ordered the remaining forces to defend KL. However, upon reaching Golden Tooth, Stark scouts discovered a small army amassing behind GT's walls, and so the Stark army met that army head on and won. Now the question is: was this the plan from the start, meaning Garrett and his uncle are traitors and the "heirs" are phoney, or was this the act carried out by just the Lord of Golden Tooth?

Margaery Tyrell has been thrown in jail after Joffrey died at his own wedding feast, angering the Reach and causing more political upset. Tywin is alive, but is in the field, still fighting.

Garrett Reyne, a angry, haunted man (also Maeve's brother), finds out that his uncle may have sold him out to destroy Robb Stark, thus stopping his quest for vengeance against Tywin. He rejects his uncle and tells him to run before the army got their hands on him and killed him on sight. In a fit of rage, he attacked a prisoner and landed himself in a prison cell, where he remains.

Robb Stark is hurt, an arrow wound to the shoulder and sword a wound to the side, and is being tended to by nearly every healer in the army. He has just discovered the woman tending to him, Jeyne, is the daughter of a western lord who probably just betrayed him.

Sansa Stark is wandering the lands with Sandor Clegane. (this was mentioned way way back, and only received one or two lines of mention.) Catelyn Stark released Jaime Lannister in exchange for her daughters, only to find out Arya was missing and Sansa escaped with the Hound weeks before.

Arya Stark was traveling with Hot Pie and Gendry and ended up in GT and stole Maeve's bread one day to feed the three of them. She was separated in the commotion from her companions and was discovered by Ghost hiding behind a Sept pillar.