Today is a good day my friends I've let this Chapter come out late because I have been sick with a nasty cold and planning a new addition to the edge of the dragon for some time now and yesterday I finally finished the planning stage it will be introduced in this chapter and hopefully they will spice things up.
The Children Of The Stranger
Daegar Targaryen
The Crownlands...
"You let them get away?" Daegar says, his voice was quiet but had such venom and fury in it that it made everyone in the room flinch.
Barristan steps forward "Your grace I-"
Daegar cuts him off "I gave you the Job of Guarding my Mother" Daegar says stepping closer to the old knight "Because I thought you were supposed to be one of the greatest King's guard in the History of the Seven Kingdoms... and yet let a man who was only made a king's guard by the convenience of a Madman to best you and kidnap my mother.
Barristan stares at the ground and mumbles something. "What was that?" Daegar demands.
Barristan looks back up at Daegar "Ser Jamie would not have bested me unless I let him" Barristan says "The Queen went with him of her own free will, and while it is my duty to serve you as a king's guard it is also my duty as a knight to protect all those I serve and I served your mother and father long before a served you, your grace,"
Daegar says nothing for a long while; his purple eyes seemed to burn into Barristan. "If you were anyone else" Daegar starts "I would have your ears cut off, your eyes gouged out and your tongue torn from your head... but because you served my father well for so many years I will instead tell you to leave my camp and never show your face in my Kingdom again!"
Barristan stares at Daegar for a long time and Daegar nearly gives the order to have him thrown out, until he breaks his silence, "It appears your Mother was correct" Barristan says "I was a Blind fool to follow you", with one final "your grace" Barristan storms out of the tent.
Daegar turns and smashes his fist on the wooden war table making the legs of the table creak in protest.
Loras Tyrell steps forward "Your grace Ser Barristan knows many things about us," the knight of flowers says "it would be far better to simply kill him"
Daegar shakes his head "He is an old man whose mind is withering" Daegar says "He will not be a threat"
Daegar turns to his other advisors "I trust the rest of you have good news for me" Daegar says
The three men in front of him look at each other nervously before one steps forward "we do your grace" he says "Petyr Baelish has married Lysa Arryn and is mobilizing the Knights of the Vale"
Daegar nods 'Good" he says "We can send them into the North, my brother won't be able to stand the armies of the Vale and the Ironborn invaders"
His advisor takes a deep breath "your grace, the pretender has defeated the Ironborn and is heading towards the Twins"
Daegar clenches his fists and grits his teeth "I...see" he says before turning to Ser Loras "Go to my tent and fetch me that letter I wrote a few months ago"
Before Loras can leave one of Daegar's advisors step forward "Your grace we have warned you not to do that"
Daegar glares at the man "Yes" he says "And I agreed because you had assured me my brother would be stuck in the North for a long while"
The man sighs "Your grace there are other options better than them"
"Really?" Daegar says angrily "Because correct me if I'm wrong but they have not failed a single contract"
Daegar takes a deep breath and turns back to Ser Loras "Send the letter to the Magister of Pentos telling them I am looking for the Children Of The Stranger"
Lyanna Stark
Lyanna pants as her and Jamie stop running; she wipes the sweat from her forehead before looking up a glaring at Jamie "What in seven hells is wrong with you?" Lyanna demands.
Jamie looks up at Lyanna and opens his mouth but before he can speak by the sound of footsteps crunching leaves; He draws his sword and Lyanna steps behind him.
They both let out a sigh of relief to see Darron Flynn stumbling towards them "Your grace" he says wincing in pain "I'd kneel but I'm afraid I'd only embarrass myself by falling at your feet"
Lyanna lets out a small chuckle "It's not necessary Ser Darron" She says "from what I have heard you are the reason my brother and sister in law are still breathing"
Darron smiles but hangs his head in shame "Yes but I didn't do a very good Job at it" he says sadly "Are they-"
"Their safe" Lyanna confirms with a smile before looking down at his injured leg "What happened?"
"It wasn't exactly a smooth ride escaping from our deaths," Jamie says, his tone was sarcastic but there was something behind it, something that sounded like grief"
"Alright," Lyanna says taking a deep breath "What's the plan?"
Darron and Jamie look at each other uncertainly making Lyanna tilt her head to the side "You do have planned right?"
The two look at her apologetically "Honestly" Darron says "we thought we'd be dead by now... I suppose we should go north"
Lyanna shakes her head "If we went to the North we'd run into an army of Targaryen soldiers who would lop your heads off and drag me back to Daegar"
"Jamie closes his eyes and sighs "then I suppose there is a second option," he says "we head west towards my home Casterly Rock"
Lyanna nearly laughs "Your father has sided with Oberyn Martell," she says "we go there and the only difference is we run into an army of Lannister soldiers who lop all our heads off"
Jamie shakes his head solemnly "My father is dead" he says, his voice cracking a little.
Lyanna bites her lower lip and places a hand on his shoulder "Jamie I'm so sorry" she says "what happened?"
Jamie gulps and steps back from her touch "One of Daegar's men cut him down" he says though something in his voice makes Lyanna question if that is the truth "I doesn't matter, what matters is that my brother Tyrion is Lord of the Westerlands and he may offer us sanctuary"
Lyanna turns her gaze to Darron who gives her a slight shake of the head letting her know not to push the conversation further.
"Alright" Lyanna says with a shrug "let's head to the land of the lion.
The Stranger's favorite Son
Pentos...
"Please" Illyrio Mopatis gags as Myra runs the blade of a knife across his cheeks and through his mouth carving a forced smile, the Stranger' favorite son s eyes his lover with interest as she continues to torture the poor man by carving circles around his eyes.
Myra giggles brushing he long black hair away "don't pout magister," she says as rests the blade on the inside of illyrio's mouth "You know you're in the wrong because you lied to us"
The Magister lets out a gasp as Myra removes the knife from his mouth "I paid you every last coin I owed"
Myra put's on a pouty face "I know" she says Turing to face someone "Josie please explain to the magister what he did wrong"
The young brown-headed girl jumps to her feet and steps towards Myra looking down at Illyrio and smiling "You said that this would be one of the hardest blood filled contracts we had ever taken" Josie says stroking the man's mutilated face "But it took as less than a month and we only killed seven people"
The Stranger's favorite son lets out a small smirk at his newest student's enthusiasm, he turns his head at the sound of footsteps to see Josie's father Jaran enter the room with something in his hand.
"Judging by the contents of all those letters on his desk, our Magister leads a very dull life," Jaran says with a smirk before holding up the letter in his hand "but it does seem that we've gotten a request from a person of significance"
Josie and Myra walk towards Jaran with Myra pausing in front of her lover "Do you want to finish that my love?" she asks.
The Stranger's favorite son smiles and nods grabbing the chain next to him and slowly walking towards Illyrio, this was his favorite part the look in his victim's eyes when the know...when it becomes clear to them that they've reached the end of their lives.
He steps behind the chair Illyrio is strapped to and kneels down and wraps the chain tightly around the Magister's neck "They're something aren't they?" The Stranger's favorite son whispers staring at his group as Illyrio begins to choke "My happy little family"
"You really shouldn't blame yourself" The Stranger's favorite son reassures as the Magister's face turns purple and his eyes start to bulge "You made good on the payment but sometimes...our thirst for blood isn't quenched so easily, and when it is it just comes back a while later"
Illyrio lets out one final choked breath before going limp, The Stranger's favorite son steps away from the man and rejoins his colleges who all smile at him "I believe you'll want to read this" Jaren says handing the letter to The Stranger's favorite son.
After quickly reading through it he smirks and looks back up at the children of the stranger "It seems we're going home"
Four new characters which I know they've been added a little late in the story but I only started planning them a few months ago and am pretty damn excited about them any way I will keep with the tradition of casting the characters so here they are
The Stranger's favorite son: Michael Ealy (he has a real name I'm just keeping that hidden for now)
Myra: Katie McGrath
Josie: Willa Holland
Jaran: James Purefoy
