Game of Thrones – The Sky Knight
The world without the Iron Throne
By
Robert Spénard
Chapter 4 – Politics & MurderSansa wearing Jacob's image and voice while in her armour is talking with Lord Astin, an overweight, angry man in his mid to late forties and says;
"I understand what you are saying; however, I have no say when it comes to matters like the constitution. I can speak to Queen Sansa; what your asking for is a matter for the house of lords."
Lord Astin replies;
"Your grace, men and women are not equal; they have never been. If I didn't trust my Maestre, my wife would have bankrupted me. Women just don't have the capacity to manage things other than bear children properly."
Sansa asks;
"Forgive me, Lord Astin, what was it you did while Queen Sansa was fighting to retake Winterfell and fight against the army of dead?"
Lord Astin smugly says;
"Her bastard brother retook Winterfell and led the army of the North against the Night's King…I was in Pentosos dealing with matters of commerce."
Sansa replies;
"It was Queen Sansa who led the Knights of the Veil to Winterfell during the battle of the Bastards who won the war. It was her sister Arya who killed the Night's King ending the ten-thousand-year war between the living and the dead. When the Nights King rose the dead, Queen Sansa, Lady Mormont and the Siren sisters fought the dead in the crypt saving the lives of the women and children who had taken shelter there. Five women who saved the North. You also forget it was Queen Sansa who gained our freedom from the seven kingdoms. When the North went to war, you ran to safety in the south.
When the constitution was first presented to the house of Lords for open debate, you refused the opportunity. When the house of Lords voted on accepting or rejecting the constitution, you left the room. When the Lords of the Northlands signed the document, your signature was the largest, with the words Utiled Fer Dunrand underneath it. So tell me, Lord Astin, what is the real reason you came here? Man to man, as only another man can understand."
Lord Astin sits across from Sansa wearing Jacob's image, and voice says;
"There is no reason to be so rude, and my arguments are sound. Women are not equal to men."
Sansa replies;
"In that, I agree, five women have proven that men are not their equal. No man in the history of the North has accomplished what they have. Men used war to try to achieve the same things and failed every time. It was women who ended the wars that men started. Does this have anything to do with the Woman who had been promised to you declining to become your wife? "
Lord Astin replies;
"It has nothing to do with that itself; it is the how the new laws that rose from the constitution denied me what was owed. Not denied it, because a silly girl and her mother said that eleven is young to be married. Even if the arranged marriage did not happen, the groom should still be entitled to the dowry offered. Which is the way it must be."
Sansa replies;
"The Queen's late sister Gwendolyn had four arranged marriages fall apart; not a single one of the men demanded to keep her dowry. In fact, two of them added to it when they returned her."
Lord Astin states;
"The girl was a degenerate; between you and me, it was well known that she preferred the company of women in the way man and wife consummate their bedding night."
Sansa replies;
"I married Lady Gwendolyn; I can assure you went it came to matters of the bedroom, she was very interested in what her husband had to offer. She had plenty of opportunity to bed another woman, but she didn't. Even when I left her alone for almost a year, down the road from several very curious young women who had no interest in men, marrying or otherwise. Queen Sansa chose me to be her husband and the father of her children, and I am beyond grateful. It sounds to me that you wish to challenge the new laws and have what you believe is entitled to you paid to you? Is that correct?"
Lord Astin replies;
"I have no idea what nonsense just came out of your mouth, and I was informed that you often spout utter nonsense. If challenging the law is what it will take, I will do so, and I didn't bring my fighting swords."
Sansa replies;
"It's not that type of challenge; it is a challenge of paper. You put your grievances in writing and plead your issue to the Queen, her elected Master of Justice and three lords randomly selected. They will hear your grievance and if there is merit rule in your favour."
Lord Astin shoots back;
"Writing is for girls and women. Men challenge with swords, not quills."
Sansa replies;
"I will be more than happy to face your challenge, or you could wait until the entire house of Lords returns to Winterfell to determine if we again go to war. They may be able to find time for your challenge. Even though there is a great army invading from the south and very little to keep them from bringing it here. Have you received the summons?"
Lord Astin replies;
"How could I, the summons would have been sent to my keep. I would expect my servants to send it to me, but none of them can read. And currently, I am between scribes. Do you know where I may find one to help with the wording of my challenge?"
Sansa replies;
"Unfortunately, scribes in the Northlands were often used as messengers during the last wars. Not many of them returned with a written response, and there seems to be an issue with finding enough gold to train or recruit more."
Gendry and Davos are talking to the Unsullied leader Dead Rat, who says;
"So we are late; when we heard of the Unsullied who had been freed from the Dragon Queen, we rose and failed. Those who survived had collars placed around their necks to ensure our obedience. Then last night, we received our final orders to kill the other soldiers and join your army, then our collars fell off."
As Gendry looks at the remaining Unsullied behind Dead Rat clearing up the dead and not dead bodies, Davos asks;
"How many Unsullied do you have?"
Dead Rat replies;
"Here, almost two thousand, there's over a thousand that are still chasing and killing the other soldiers. We can meet up with them on our way south to Dorne, where the last great slave master has invaded."
Tyrion looks in the distance and see's an army marching towards them and says to the person next to him;
"We should prepare for an attack; I don't think we can outrun them."
Shogo looks at him and laughs;
"Tyrion, you drink too much, those Unsullied have come to fight with us, for some reason over three weeks ago they were about to get loaded on ships to take them to Dorne, when they turned on their masters, slaughtered every one of the other slave soldiers. Now they are coming here to help finish freeing Volantis of all Slavery before we go to Dorne and kill the last great slave master."
Tyrion states;
"Since the civil war in Dorne, even marginally decent wine is hard to find. I've been sober for far too long, and Moonshine does not agree with me. I thought Daenyrse freed all of the Unsullied."
Shogo looks at him and again laughs and says;
"The Dragon Queen only freed what Unsullied they had currently available for sale. Someone with great wealth bought almost their entire inventory, around forty-thousand, just before she got there."
Tyrion states;
"Now we know where some of them are. Not who bought them and financed the Sons of The Harpies."
The Siren Sisters are doing one of the few things they can do well and mostly try not to get out of doing sewing clothes. Amyelia says;
"These clothes are for orphans, but they will be the most fashionable orphans anyone has ever seen."
Elaina says;
"Is the door still locked cause? The window definitely is."
Eeina counters;
"Always trying to escape your responsibilities."
Elaina shoots back;
"I should be sowing clothes that I am going to wear that properly fit me, not some orphan."
Eeina looks at her and says;
"I wasn't talking to you; I was talking to Howard."
Then she holds up a cage with a rat in it and continues;
"If it wasn't for Howard, we could never have gotten past the stuff Bertie used to keep us away from our armour and find the secret passageways in this dump. Now he's telling me that there is no secret door in this room. But Bertie hid something in the wall next door, a big metal box that Jacob gave her to hide."
Elaina asks;
"Which wall?"
Eeina replies;
"The one on my right."
Amyelia asks;
"Your right or Elaina's right?"
Eeina states;
"Howard says that it doesn't matter there's stuff hidden in both walls, but you shouldn't open the one on the left."
Elaina gets up and walks to the wall on her right and punches it a few times until she can tear open a hole big enough to see in and says;
"This definitely is the wrong right. Whoever built this dump was fond of burying people in walls."
Amyelia asks;
"When did you get your armour back?"
Elaina turns around and states;
"I didn't. I'm so shitfaced that I didn't feel anything when I broke my hand punching the wall. I'm starting to believe that I shouldn't day drink. I have to use the toilet, and I don't see a bucket."
Davos finds Jacob in what used to be some sort of command tent leaning backward in a chair with his feet on a large box and reading data on a diagnostic pad and asks;
"Your grace, we've been looking for you since the Unsullied joined us and w…(the box under Jacobs's feet begins to move and the sounds of someone crying can be heard) I was going to ask you what is in the box, but I'm afraid that you will tell me. We're about to leave for Dorne the long way. Will you be joining us?"
Jacob looks up from the pad and says;
"No, once I finish here. My presence has been requested in my wife's bed."
Davos replies;
"That seems too soon considering she just had a baby."
Jacob responds;
"What can I say? Her handmaiden Bertie has excellent medical skills. Good luck with going to war in Dorne. At least you won't be dealing with the Siren Sisters with them saying What happens in Dorne stays in Dorne."
Davos counters;
"They are not the only ones fond of that saying; after Arya rejected Gendry, he had me take him to Dorne so he could drink his pain away and leave all his crying in a tavern in Dorne. Which didn't happen after all what happens in Dorne stays in Dorne."
After Davos has left, Jacob stands up, opens the box and looks at the three men he stuffed in there and asks;
"So are you three willing to talk about where you got the stuff you used to control the Unsullied and talk to a person somewhere in southern Dorne?"
One of the men glares at him and says;
"Fuck you, GenSol!"
Jacob closes the lid, picks up the box and drops it then opens the lid and asks;
"What do you know about GenSol's?"
The same man replies;
"We made you to help win a war; then you turned on us. I'm glad we wiped your freak children from existence on Earth."
Jacob asks;
"How do you know that I'm a GenSol?"
Another says;
"Cause you a clone of their fucking leader King Jacob the first."
Jacob replies;
"I ain't no clone; I'm from a planet called Terra, not Earth and definitely not a King. If you came here in peace, I wouldn't have to kill you."
Then closes the lid again and says;
"Whoever these morons are, they are from a world that still likes to go to war."
Then his AI states;
"Analysis of subjects, they are from an advanced world, but not our homeworld. They have primitive combat armour without AI's and neural interfaces. Their weapons are below a level one energy weapon. There is evidence that indicates that they came here in a transport. They are not from this reality. Likelihood of them seeking peaceful co-existence with indigenous population less than one percent. They appear to be displaying signs of dimensional psychosis."
Jacob states;
"Now I have to find and destroy their spaceship."
Jacob opens the lid and shoots all three of the men in the head and closes the lid and Sansa asks;
"Did you have to kill them?"
Jacob says;
"Unfortunately, the last documented person who succumbed to dimensional psychosis destroyed Old Valaria, and he was trying to go home. These lunatics want to conquer this world after they help the local population eliminate any major threats. Which now includes you, our daughter and me."
Sansa asks;
"Why aren't you succumbing to dimensional psychosis?"
Jacob replies;
"According to Daisy and the remaining medical persons in Valaria, it has to do with the daily resets and my bonding with you. You quite literally ground me."
Sansa replies;
"Interesting, if you go crazy, you can sleep in the empty kennels. Next to the stall where Theon once lived. I'm thinking of having it bricked off; it meets the definition of a toxic spill."
The Siren Sisters are looking at the contents of the large metal box that they tore out of the wall. Elaina picks up a disruptor grenade and asks;
"What the hell is this thing?"
Amyelia says;
"I think it's some sort of sporting thing?"
Eeina looks at Howard and says;
"Howard says that it is a disruptor grenade, you throw it at things, and it blows them up."
As Elaina starts to toss it up and down in her hand, she says;
"I would throw this thing at the door, but Bruce and Larry are on the other side, and I don't feel like breaking in a new guard."
Eeina says;
"Howard says that the two guards on the other side of the door are not Bruce and Larry; it's two girls, the one that Amyelia is friendly with and the other one that is more man than Bruce and Larry combined. And you should put the grenade down, throwing it at something would kill us all and his family they just moved in under the floor….in the floor"
As Elaina drops the disruptor grenade into the box, Amyelia picks up a rifle and asks;
"What is this stupid thing?"
Then points it at the window and shakes it, which causes the rifle to discharge, and a bullet tears its way through the window.
When the guards and the Matron open the door, all three sisters are covered in dust and dirt, sitting and back to sewing clothing for orphans. The Matron looks at the window with a bullet hole in it; then the blankets badly hung on the walls in a childish attempt of hiding the holes the sisters made in them and says;
"You should have cleaned all the dust and dirt off of yourselves and the room before (she pulls the blanket off the wall the metal box has been badly pushed back in) your pathetic attempt to hide the evidence."
Elaina quickly says;
"I blame Howard and Amyelia for playing with something we know nothing about. It was in her hand when it did whatever it did to the window and sobered me up. Am I the only one with a loud ringing in my ears?"
Amyelia says;
"Did you say something? I have a loud ringing in my ears and can't hear what you're saying."
Eeina says;
"My ears are ringing; I was right, Matron. You can have an angry look on your face. I have no idea what you said, but your facial expression says everything."
As Davos and Gendry head south with the Unsullied and what men they can spare for the fight, he watches Jacob appear on his right and says;
"I thought you were headed north, your grace."
Jacob replies;
"Was then something came up, any tips on sleeping in a doghouse?"
Davos responds;
"Yes, apologize and let your wife know how sorry you are for whatever it was that you did, and hope you know what it was that earned you a fortnight in the kennels. I think there may be a horse that you can ride in the back."
Jacob says;
"I'm tired of falling off them, the last one I gave as a wedding gift for a twelve-year-olds wedding to a man who just turned fifty. I'm sure she needed it more. I'll just walk."
Gendry notices Jacob's weapons and says;
"Your grace, I was told that you destroyed all of your weapons?"
Jacob answers;
"I did destroy all of my weapons, the ones that Grand Maestre Hawkings let me. It's fitting that I get mindwiped twenty more times than the total number of people I mindwiped. I didn't mindwipe you; if I had, you wouldn't remember asking Arya to marry you. I've had most of my body set on fire; it wasn't as painful as watching that disaster."
Gendry asks;
"How hard are you to kill?"
Jacob replies;
"Remarkably easily, I just don't stay that way, and I don't remember anything from when I was dead, so don't ask."
As the people who had taken refuge in the caves begin to exit and head to safety, Drew says to Cindy;
"They were able to get Clem to turn around and go home before he got here and torched our new friends."
Cindy states;
"New friends that don't have any weed or boy parts. They could have at least given Clem some weed to drop off."
As Cindy looks into the caves, Drew says;
"They're not in there anymore, and I think they are in one of the wagons."
Cindy asks;
"What wagons? We don't have any wagons."
Drew says;
"It doesn't matter; Megan has never been good with sharing."
As people walk out and towards the North with everything they own on their backs, Stebbins looks at Drew and Cindy and says;
"What are they, they can't be set on fire, and they are indestructible."
Red Rag says;
"They are not indestructible, the boy I put my spear through his heart. He healed just as quickly as I stabbed him. I am confident the girl still has arrowheads in her ass. I watched her get shot and break the shaft. It barely slowed her down. They are great fighters."
Rugel says;
"The girl Cindy is only a great fighter when she does not have sex daily. Her sister Megan is just as good, but only after she's fucked the shit out of my son. They will have beautiful bastard babies."
Stebbins says:
"We need to send enough men to escort the civilians to safety and meet up with the rest of the men I brought with me if they are still alive."
Red Rag states;
"They are; the Unsullied that were about to attack them got their last orders and killed the other soldiers with them."
Stebbins asks;
"How do you know this?"
Red Rag pulls out a communication device and says;
"I talk to the other Unsullied leaders on this; there is two thousand-headed south from a place called Dragonstone and maybe another thousand that will join them after they finish killing the others like we were ordered to. There are almost five thousand still in Volantis; they will come to Dorne after they have freed the remaining slaves."
Stebbins asks;
"How big is your army?"
Red Rag answers;
"There were forty-thousand in the group the last great slave master purchased with me. There were many more slave soldiers, not as good as us. But skilled enough."
Stebbins asks;
"How many of these slave-soldiers are there?"
Red Rag says;
"Before our last orders, around 90,000 now a great deal less. It is the strange men with the thunder bows that you have to be worried about. They can kill dozens before anyone can get the catapult range. There are about one-hundred that I have seen; they arrived in a floating ship. It doesn't float anymore."
Stebbins says to Rugel;
"I hope these strange men are not from Jacob's Terra, I know what he can do, and one-hundred more of them are unstoppable. I just hope he knows how to fight them and can teach us."
Jacob walks along with the Unsullied and sees Dead Rat pull out a communications device and talk to another Unsullied leader. He runs up to him and asks;
"What are you doing with that?"
Dead Rat responds;
"I am talking to the other Unsullied Leaders to coordinate our fight."
Jacob says;
"You need to tell them this, drop the devices and change their direction. The people who gave you those things can listen to your conversations and track you."
Dead Rat looks at Jacob and says;
"The men with the thunder bows have pictures of you that they fire them at. Are you their enemy?"
Jacob replies;
"According to them, I am, although I've only met three of them. Please tell them that and then hand me the device."
Dead Rat does as Jacob asks then hands the device to Jacob. When Jacob takes the device, his helmet morphs over his head, and he says to his AI;
"Access the entire network for this device and destroy it."
His AI replies;
"Accessing communications network, beginning flaming protocol."
When Jacob feels the device heat up, he drops it, then watches it melt itself.
Stebbins watches Red Rag drop his communication device then watches it melt itself, and Red Rag says;
"We need to change direction and what we are going to attack; I was told that these devices people can listen to what I say when talking to other Unsullied leaders, and they can track us with them. Who is this Sky Knight?"
Stebbins responds with;
"The man who just stopped us from marching into an ambush."
Commander Hellstrom, a heavily scarred man with a drive to conquer and kill and controls his men through brutality and fear, is sitting under a tent when his communications officer says;
"The escaped slaves just ditched their comms units, and (he begins to panic) we've been hacked."
Hellstrom angrily says;
"Who the fuck on this backwater dump could do that?'
Before the communications terminal melts, the communication officer says;
"The hacker signature is fucking GenSol. How the fuck did one get here?"
Hellstrom picks up his prototype disruptor pistol and says;
"Who the fuck cares? Your weapons are useless against them. This isn't. It's been too long since I've killed one."
The communications officer says;
"That may have been a hacker series; all of our systems may be compromised."
Hellstrom slams the man's head against what is left of the table burning the side of his head, and says;
"If they did, they you pay for it. Get our comms back online. We need to tell the scouts to find him and watch him until I get there."
After Hellstrom has left the tent, the communications officer painfully peals what is left of his face off the melted table, walks over to a small storage unit and violently pulls a girl so filthy that the only that identifies her is her body shape and says;
"Hybrid, one of your fucking GenSol brothers just took out our primary communications network, fix it, or you get the chair again."
As the girl starts to repair the system, one of the terrified slaves waiting for the men to use them quietly asks the other;
"What did she do to deserve such cruel punishment?"
The other quietly replies;
"She was born, half their enemy and half them. Now be quiet the last girl who was not quiet, they tied her to a pole and threw their knives at her."
Sansa is seated with the lords and ladies of the North; next to her is Catlin in a basket on a table and says;
"Thank you all for coming on short notice; by now, you are all aware of what is happening in the south; I am not asking anyone to go to war; countless Northmen and Women have died fighting for something that isn't ours. What I asked you for is to plan for the event that the south falls to this invading force."
One of the Lords asks;
"Your Majesty, do you not think it wise to bring your daughter to this meeting?"
Sansa replies;
"My daughter is my heir and will always attend meetings; she will grow up knowing every face in this room, everything that is discussed. Sadly being my heir means that she will never know a normal life. She will not be able to prove herself as my heir if she grows up separated and told very little of how the Northlands was, is and what it can be."
Another man stands up and asks;
"Have you had news of General Stebbins?"
Sansa replies;
"The last I heard was that he was protecting civilians that had to flee their homes in a cave system, and his men, most of them are still alive, had fortified a town. I haven't heard much since the Unsullied that had been forced to fight against him turned on their masters and freed themselves before joining him."
Another asks;
"How many of these Unsullied have joined him?"
Sansa says;
"With General Stebbins, I have no idea, with my husband riding south almost three thousand."
Another asks;
"Where did so many Unsullied come from?"
Sansa says;
"The ones Daenyes freed where all that was left for sale when she liberated them someone bought most of the ones they had before she arrived, I've been told that it was almost forty-thousand; it's significantly less since they turned on their masters."
Another lord asks;
"Your majesty, is there something wrong with your daughter? No one has heard her cry?"
Sansa replies;
"My daughter does cry, usually at two am when she wakes hungry. Just not when there is an audience. She is an excellent listener."
Clarice is standing in front of her daughters in her armour and says;
"I thought I raised you three better; you all continue to prove me wrong. With all the damages you have made, your dowry's keep getting smaller and smaller."
Elaina asks;
"We have dowry's; how much I need to know this if I find the wealthy highborn of my dreams. Too little, and he'll look elsewhere."
Eeina states;
"We live here now, and under the new laws, we don't need to provide a dowry, and with all the single highborn's not having much selection of potential brides that aren't related to them, we should get them to give us a dowry. Whether we marry them or not."
Amyelia sadly says;
"Until I find out if Cindy is alright, getting married is that last thing on my mind. But I do like the concept of the potential husband coming with a dowry intriguing."
Clarice sees Elaina's broken hand and asks;
"Elaina, what did you do to your hand?"
Elaina looks at it and says;
"Something I'm going to regret when I sober up so that Glenda will fix it, but not until all the alcohol is out of me."
Eeina says;
"Elaina didn't listen to what Howard had to say and punched a hole in the wrong wall. The metal box Bertie hid was in the wall on my right, not hers. There was a dead body in that wall, not the box filled with stuff Jacob didn't want anyone to find. Which was on my right."
Amyelia adds;
"We had to borrow one of the guard's swords to open the other wall; I'm supposed to have diner with her later. She scares me; she's more of a man than a girl."
Eeina adds;
"Howard said she was more man than both Bruce and Larry combined. It's the other girl guard Amyelia would prefer to have diner with. She's really girly for someone who wears armour and carries a battle-axe."
Clarice asks;
"Who is Howard?"
Eeina says;
"He's my friend; his family just moved into the floor in our room. He's very hygenic for a rat. Murry, he could use a bath."
Clarice states;
"If I were not wearing my armour, I would have miscarried your unborn sibling by now, and he gives me less grief."
Eeina says;
"So it is a boy, I call the first right of tormenting our baby brother."
Clarice replies;
"There will be no tormenting your future sibling, and if there is a god, you will all be married by the time it learns to walk."
Amyelia says;
"How did religion get suddenly get added to the possibility of us getting married when I get married. When I do, I want to get married just like you did with Stebbins. The absentee stepdad."
Elaina blurts;
"With a crossbow wedding after begging a Maestre to perform the ceremony?"
Eeina adds;
"Or do you mean Dad.? It was a proper wedding, no crossbows involved."
Clarice mutters;
"I'm glad that none of you are good at math."
Elaina asks;
"What does math have to do with you marrying dad?"
Clarice states;
"Other than paying for the damage to the walls, the windows and the burial of the persons you discovered inside a wall, you three will be wearing your armour while they do your work for you, without wearing your helmets. Starting with the stables, that until the stalls are properly cleaned, no horses can be placed in there. Take a long breath of fresh air; it will be a long time before you smell that again."
As Clarice leaves, Amyelia says;
"I'm confused; what does mom marrying dad, math and crossbows have to do with anything? I really hope Cindy is okay; she gets a little cranky when she hasn't sucked on a big fattie first thing in the morning."
Elaina whines;
"Damn it, Bertie confiscated all the alcohol I stashed in my armour. What's the point of wearing it hungover and sober when Glenda won't do anything to help with my hangover or, for some stupid reason, won't let me drink when I'm wearing her anymore."
Eeina replies;
"Well, you did punch a hole in a brick wall with your bare hand and wouldn't let me treat it."
Elaina counters;
"If you didn't spend so much time petting rodents without washing your hands, then I would be okay."
Amyelia asks;
"Do you think that where Cindy is that they can receive Ravens?"
Eeina says;
"Howard is my friend and very hygenic; he cleans himself several times a day, unlike you miss smelly dress of the year."
Arya is arguing with Nicodemus about getting back on the ship and getting back to exploring the new world when her water breaks, and she says;
"What the fuck? How did that happen?"
The village healer says;
"You had sex with a boy not knowing the consequences; let's go get that baby out of you. I'd ask you if you had any names picked out, but you just accepted the fact that you're with child."
As they walk Arya to the healer's hut, Arya says;
"But I was on top; how did this happen? I was on top."
As Arya enters the hut, Nicodemus says to the village cat;
"I thought the same way until I found out that I knocked up a psychopath's sister. I couldn't get out of there fast enough. I can't ever go south again without becoming his live-in chew toy. Apparently, he was the only person that was supposed to knock her up."
The cat responds;
"I once ate too much catnip and knocked up my sister; you wanna go kill a few snakes?"
Sansa wakes to see a shadowy figure enter her room and says;
"If you came here to kill me, you are a horrible assassin."
The figure stops moving, and Sansa says;
"You should repeat assassin school; you definitely shouldn't have passed."
The Shadowy figure continues to stand motionless until Bart bites him in the balls. As Bart is mauling the man, Catlin wakes and screams, then Sansa says;
"Asshole, I just got her to sleep. At least my sister attended a good assassin school. She wouldn't have been able to cross all fifty-plus names on her list without it. Killing the Night's King was a bonus and a professional first."
The following day Sansa is sitting on her throne holding Catlin, and Bart is lying in front of her; the Lords and Ladies of the Northlands are all standing in front of her, and she says;
"I understand not being a popular leader, my decisions about building projects and my future vision of what the Northlands can become are not a reason to hire someone to kill me and wake my daughter; she is challenging to get to sleep. Lord Astin, of all the people in this room, most people would suspect you as the person to hire the assassin, which we both know is not possible, your worse than broke. So you are not a suspect while Lord Calstark, on the other hand, hiring the person you sent to me to make a decision in a Chicken dispute to sneak into my room and kill me was a poor choice. You could have easily hired a proper assassin and then would have to deal with my husband's wrath."
Lord CalStark states;
"Why would I do such a thing? You are my family."
Sansa replies;
"Because the castles on the wall are being dismantled, and the wall will be torn down. You make a great deal of money from supplying the Knight's Watch, even with it having only one member. Your dislike of the Freefolk is well known even though you have fought alongside them and owe your life to at least one."
Lord CalStark replies;
"You can't prove that I was involved in hiring the man who tried to assassinate you."
Sansa replies;
"Not at this time I can't, but I can prove that you falsified records and charged the six kingdoms for supplying food and equipment to one thousand members of the Knights Watch when there is only one remaining member who is north of the wall keeping the peace among the Freefolk and not in need of supplies and equipment. I can also prove that you have looted and hoarded unguarded food stocks; we did an inventory after you left to come here. Do you know what we discovered?
Lord Calstark replies;
"Bad bookkeeping does not make me a criminal."
Sansa replies;
"There is bad bookkeeping, and there is what was discovered hidden in your castle. It seems that some of your people are not as loyal as you thought. You are stripped of your titles and lands and will serve the rest of your life as guests of our dungeons. Your brother who aided in this enterprise will also be stripped of his lands and titles; he is already in our dungeons. All that has been stripped from you will be granted to our cousin Lady Hentworth-CalStark."
Lord Calstark screams;
"You have no right to take what is mine and give it to a nine-year-old girl. I have an army, and they will not accept this bullshit."
Then the commander of his army says;
"Lord CalStark, if you hadn't hoarded food stores needed for the people under your charge to keep from starving during the winter, long night or not. You would still have a loyal army."
The Freefolk ambassador adds;
"If you hadn't tried to re-instate the bounty on Freefolk who are earning a fair wage south of the wall, you wouldn't have made an enemy of us. Your Queen and most of the Lord and Ladies of the Northlands have abided by the treaty you signed on the day you crowned her Queen."
As Lord CalStark is being dragged away, he screams;
"I am the North; the bitch queen's brother murdered my father. I am a Stark by blood m…."
After the doors close behind him, Sansa says;
"My brother did what he thought was best; the Elder Lord CalStark murdered two innocent children, not because they committed a crime that merited it, but because of the family they belonged to if it were anything other than a time of war, who here would not make the same decision to execute a man who beat two young children to death because of their family name and no other reason."
The room goes quiet, Catlin begins to cry, and Sansa says;
"Let's take a short break while I tend to my daughter; she didn't get her proper sleep last night and has been very cranky."
As Shogo, the free Unsullied and the second son's battle for control of a massive slave compound, Shogo's sword hits an invisible wall; when it does, he sees it briefly fracture showing some sort of metal hull, between sword strikes and defences, he repeatedly hits the invisible wall. Then just as he kills his final opponent, the invisible wall explodes with light. When it clears, they look at a strange ship, unlike anything they have ever seen before. When the battle is over, Tyrion is looking at it, and Darrio asks;
"You look like you are waiting for something?"
Tyrion states;
"I am; for some reason, I have the strong belief that a message from the Sky Knight will suddenly appear telling us to walk away from this thing."
They both look around looking to see if anyone or thing is approaching them with a message, and Shogo shouts;
"What are you two doing over there? I found five kegs of decent Dornish wine; if you want some, you better get over here."
As they walk towards him, still paranoid about getting a surprise message, one of the heavily tattooed Dothraki women says;
"It's a good thing we found that note from a Maestre Luwin about where to find that wine; otherwise, they would try to get into that thing."
Shogo asks;
"What did this Luwin say would happen to them if they tried?"
She replies;
"They would turn into a pink mist leaving only the bottom parts of their boots as proof that they ever existed."
Shogo states;
"At least it's not from the Sky Knight; the letters he wrote us were enough to convince us to join their fight."
The Woman says;
"One day, I will track down this Sky Knight and have him put a baby in my belly. His ability to see things yet to come would work well in a warrior."
Shogo says;
"You would have to get his wife to let him do that, and I doubt she will."
The Woman says;
"Wife no wife, that is a challenge worthy of making a child. With any man. She's an ice Queen; it shouldn't be that hard to get him in my warm bed."
Clem is releasing his hold on Drogo and says;
"I'm going to miss you too."
Then Drogo tries to bite him but finds himself unable to, and Clem holds up his arm and says;
"Open your mouth, and I'll let your tongue lick my arm, so you will know that I taste horrible."
Drogo just sits in front of him angrily glaring, and Clem says;
"Are you sure this is the only chance you will ever get?"
Drogo continues to glare at him angrily, and Clem says;
"You are going to miss me; I'll miss you so very much. Thankfully I have quite a few young non-related women to fuck my pain away. So fly be free."
Then Drogo leaps into the air and hits Clem with his tail knocking him out; as he flys, off two of the women that agreed to have sex with him look sadly at him, and the first one says;
"How pathetic, a Knight of the Dragon getting knocked out by a Dragons's tail as it flys away. I'm not going to fuck him now."
The other girl says;
"Me too; Byron will still have him, though. A doubt any girl will want him when they hear how he got knocked out by a tiny piece of tail."
The first girl says;
"Byron will still have him, but only after he's smoked several fatties wrapped in the special leaf."
The second states;
"Bryon isn't very discriminating; I doubt Clem will be able to smoke that much weed to enjoy the experience without overdosing."
As they start to drag Clem back to the village by his feet, the first adds;
"Who cares? It's Clem the only person that wanted him was Melinda, and when she stopped smoking weed wrapped in the special leaf, she dumped him. She's blind but not stupid."
The second says;
"let's go and see if that mostly dead dragon queen is close to being mostly alive; I can't wait to poke her with a stick."
The first says;
"I'm surprised that she wasn't completely dead. That knife wound was nasty, and she should have bled out long before Drogo dropped her on Micheal to chase after a flock of wild turkeys."
The second drops the foot she is dragging Clem with and states;
"Micheal hasn't been the same since; it's a good thing he was on top of Allison when the mostly dead 1/8 Targaryan fell on him. Losing an amazing sex partner like Allison would have been unbearable. Which stick do you think I should use to poke her with?"
When the army sets camp for the night, Jacob has been searching the perimeter to see if anyone with advanced tech has been watching the camp. Then he finds the energy signature of a class one surveillance drone and says;
"This is interesting. Have they detected us?"
His AI responds;
"No, they have not; they do not have the ability to detect us with or without active camouflage engaged. However, I have had to pause my inspection of their network and databanks. Overall, their technology is primitive by our standards; however, there is a subroutine created by one of their realities version of a GenSol that has detected my digital movements."
Jacob asks;
"What is the risk assessment?"
The AI says;
"Unclear, I will have to examine the data more closely. I believe it may be more of a request for assistance than an intruder detection subroutine. I have accessed the drones systems; what do you want them to see?"
Jacob replies;
"Right now, nothing more advanced than what the soldiers have with them."
Hellstrom has slammed the communications officers head against the table again and angrily states;
"Our scouts have found the escaped slaves that the GenSol is supposed to be with but can't detect it? Not even an airborne trace of GenSol DNA. Find that fucker, or I will demote you permanently."
After Hellstrom has left the tent, the communications officer drags the Hybrid out of her cage and begins to beat her, screaming;
"The chair is too good for you cunt; I will keep beating you until you find your fucking brother."
As he is brutally beating the hybrid girl, he sees the two slaves standing in fear and stops then says;
"Unlike you two worthless things, this bitch regenerates. If I beat either of you to death, you die, this thing. I can hit it three times as hard, and it won't die. (he points to one of them) get over here so I can demonstrate for your chatty friend how much easier it is to kill one of you than this thing."
When the slave hesitates, he walks over and punches her in the face, knocks her down and quickly beats her to death and says;
"See how easy that was to kill your friend; now clean up the mess; when you're done, take off your clothes, lay down on the ground, spread your legs and wait for me."
As he turns back to beating the Hybrid, the remaining slave cleans up the mess and removes the dead body, trying not to break down completely in fear.
Bran is sitting in the war room looking at a map of Dorne when Samwell finds him and asks;
"Your majesty, is there something wrong?"
Bran turns to him and states;
"I can't see what is happening in Dorne; it is like looking at this map. It is already a problem with things happening now that are supposed to begin happening five years from now."
Samwell asks;
"Just how bad is the problem?"
Bran replies;
"Greyworm and his siblings are not ready to ride the great dragons; the Siren Sisters are precisely where they are supposed to be, their story begins to unfold in two years. That is a problem; their stories are meant to converge with Greyworms, The Valley people and Rugel Sipicone in six years. Everything is out of alignment. This is a big problem."
Samwell asks;
"How big a problem?"
Bran responds;
"If everything continues, Rugel will die within six months; the valley people will not be ready and able to hatch their dragon eggs. Greyworm, his sister and cousin will wake the great dragons, but without the dragon riders by their sides, they will all die, and any dragon living or waiting to hatch will die."
Samwell asks;
"Is this more of the result of Prince Jacob's accidental interference?"
Bran replies;
"No, he is now irrelevant to what has to happen in six years. What he and my sister are doing in the North will be what is needed after what happens in six years. To build a better world without war, pointless or otherwise. It is something else or someone else that arrived here that I cannot see that is causing the problems."
Samwell asks;
"Why is Rugel Sipicone so important?"
Bran replies;
"He is the key that is needed to wake the great dragons and hatch the dragon eggs. There is no one else that can do it. Not even his son or brother. He is the last master of dragons."
Samwell states;
"I've been reading a translated copy of an ancient Terran Text that has a repeated theme, reality sucks, and no one knows what shit the future will bring, not even fate. They have an equally disturbing and exciting culture."
Bran comments;
"It depends on which Terra or Earth that you are referring to; some are quite boring. And some like Prince Jacobs are at the point of extinction. In this reality, humans have yet to be born on our Terra; carnivorous reptiles have begun to colonize their solar system. They have yet to meet a mammal they didn't want to eat. Most of which they ate into extinction, including the ones that would have evolved into human beings."
The Siren sisters are playing pass the baby when Amyelia states;
"Why are we touching this thing that Sansa shot out of her lady parts?"
Eeina takes Catlin, looks at her chubby face and says;
"I don't want one of these things forcing its way out of me."
She tries to hand Catlin to Elaina, who says;
"I'm drunk, and I don't want to return the favour of it throwing up on me."
Eeina pushes a giggling Catlin into Amyelia's chest and says;
"You take it; it's talking nonsense to me just like it's loser father."
Amyelia tries to hand a giggling Catlin to Eliana, who says;
"Still drunk, and I'm not gonna be the one who drops and throws upon it."
Then Amyelia tosses Catlin to Eeina, who barely catches a happy Catlin and says;
"I think it just shit itself."
And tries to hand Catlin to Elaina, who says;
"How many times do I have to tell you that I'm drunk and the last person you hand a baby to."
When Eeina tosses Catlin to Amyelia, Bertie ends the simulation and says;
"I am starting to believe that all three of you have a severe neurological disorder, and Elaina, you are not drunk, just at the point between being drunk and hungover."
Eeina states;
"I have a solid medical reason; I hurt my brain pretty badly when I broke all the rules of telepathy, bringing psycho Jacob back to Winterfell. I was in a coma for almost a month. The first time it was only five days. I lost trillions of brain cells in the process. I don't know what their issues are."
Elaina adds;
"You definitely have permanent brain damage; you often talk to animals or people that don't exist. You once had a three hour argument with a rock. People keep telling me I drink too much and kill billions of brain cells every time I'm drunk. I don't see it."
Eeina says;
"That rock was being rude, very rude. Someone had to put it in its place. Amyelia is fixated on Cindy. Is she alright? Should I go to Dorne and smoke weed with her and, as she keeps saying, see where it goes. At least twenty Ravens have died trying to deliver her messages that mostly say, "Hey. Are you there? Raven me back."
Amyelia counters;
"Cindy is my friend, and I like smoking weed with her; that's not a crime."
Elaina shoots back;
"Considering how old she says she is, you two doing more than smoking weed will get her fifteen to twenty in federal custody. Or so the videos say something about statistical sensual massage. I was pretty drunk when I watched those videos about people arresting pedestrians for doing that, whatever it is. So I like to drink; when is did that become a crime?"
Bertie states;
"I am still in the room; please stop fucking with me."
Eeina states;
"How can we do that? You're a suit of armour and a girl. You have to be a real boy with real boy parts to fuck with you."
Bertie begins to scan Eeina's brain and states;
"I do not see any indication of physical, neurological damage; your issues seem to be non-physcial in nature."
Eeina giggles and says;
"Do that again. It tickled and felt good at the same time."
Then they realize that Elaina is standing up and completely passed out. Then Amyelia pushes Elaina, who falls to the floor and continues to sleep and says;
"Finally, we can go to bed; every week, it takes longer for her to pass out. At least we do not have to drag that giant ass of hers's from Sansa's bed before Sansa finds her naked and drooling all over her bedding."
Eeina says;
"But we're in Sansa's chambers; her drunk ass drooling all over the floor is just as bad. Leroy and his family just moved into the floor under her giant head. And we are expected to clean up the drool ourselves, not berate the staff to do it as our station demands."
Bertie states;
"I am still here; you have less than ten minutes to take Elaina out of here and clean up the drool. Why have you named the rodents who have chewed a nest in the floor Leroy?"
As Eeina tries to grab Elaina's leg to drag her out of the room, she says;
"I didn't name them anything; Leroy Jenkins is his name, His wife is Darlene, and they have six children, Denzel, Hanabella, Mika, Juliana, Dave and something I can't pronounce properly. Leroy works in the chapel, keeping the mice from taking over. Can you do that scan thing again? It tickled and felt good at the same time."
Amyelia states;
"Bertie, while you tickle what's left of Eeina's brain, I'm going to go grab the wheel barrel we hid in the secret passage across the hall. We are starting to learn how to be best prepared in the event of an Elaina emergency. Do you know if any Ravens from Dorne have arrived with messages for me from Drew or Megan? Cindy is playing something called ghosting. Which is strange cause she's very much alive, I hope."
Sansa carrying Catlin opens the door and says;
"Bertie, you were supposed to do the simulation in their chambers."
Bertie states;
"That was where we planned on performing it. However, when they did not arrive in their chambers, I found them here. I believe that one or more of them did what is called short sheeting your bed."
Amyelia states;
"We didn't short nothing, Eeina can testify, when we made the bed she fit comfortably in it. Her feet perfectly touching the bottom of the sheet."
Sansa states;
"If I didn't love my brother Bran and gave him my word to ensure your safety and care. I would have locked you in the old insane asylum until the new one is completed in ten to fifteen years."
Eeina asks;
"You have an insane asylum?"
Sansa replies;
"It's called the clean part of the Dungeons. The lunatics we've put in there enjoy cleaning their cells. Now fix my bedding. (then she kicks Elaina) Get up. I know that you're not passed out; there's almost no drool coming out of your mouth."
Stebbins and Rugel are looking over the top of a hill and see the soldiers waiting to ambush them, and Rugel says;
"It's good that we changed our direction and route."
As the Unsullied attack them from the rear, Stebbins states;
"Good for us, bad for those Slave Soldiers that got away from Red Rag and his men the first time."
Then rolls before a Sellsword can strike him in the back. As they begin to fight the sellswords that tried to sneak up on them, Rugel states;
"I never thought that I could fight on one leg, but I was wrong. Don't let my wife know; she already has issues with me fighting on horseback."
Jacob is shadowing the army when his AI says;
"The analysis of subroutine is complete; it is not an intruder detection subroutine. It is an SOS"
Then an image of a young woman identical to one of the daughters he thought died in the great flood appears, and the AI asks;
"Do you wish me to send a response?"
Jacob responds;
"Not at the moment; we need to know about these men, what they can do and where they are. Before we can reply, the ones I killed called me a clone. If she is their Jacob's daughter, then we may have a problem; my daughter, the one that looked like her, hated me with a passion. She even tried to kill me a few times."
Sansa says;
"There are times that I feel the same way; the siren sisters are driving me insane. Lord CalStark tried to assassinate me; he's sitting in the dungeons until the new prison is built.
Jacob responds;
"I don't remember seeing that; I must have been sleeping."
Sansa says;
"You were sleeping, which was why I woke up. You were dreaming of watching me sleep. I woke up to slap you and found a fool attempting to be an assassin and almost tripping over the carpet the Siren Sisters set up for me to trip over. He woke up Catlin, and it took me three hours to get her to go to sleep the first time, two days to get her to sleep for more than fifteen minutes at a time, just like you. I need you back here so I can get a full night's sleep."
Jacob says;
"I'm working on it; having an alternate reality daughter held prisoner by men who call me a clone changes everything."
Sansa states;
"As long as she doesn't, big sister torment Catlin I won't have a problem with her. I would expect her to hate you. I just hope she won't hate me; I'm too young and not ready to be a stepmother."
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