"This way" the blackfish shouted as Ginny reached a very tall hill and around it stood a ring of stumps that Ginny seemly jumped over in her wolf form to them as reach the blackfish who waited on his horse to face her.
Ginny sharply turned and looked out into the fray as the gold riders beckoned for their horses to stop, the mountain on the horse seemed to stop abruptly before the open area shouting for them to retreat.
"Good riddance, I hoped that this place would scare them off" Blackfish appeared to mutter to himself before looking down from his horse at Ginny " Come, girl let us make camp on top of the hill before night falls," he said as he jeered his horse forward past the remaining stumps.
A sudden chill ran through Ginny's body as she hurried towards the Blackfish as a voice came out from a stump and filled her sharp ears "The old gods stir and feel your power they will not let me sleep. I dreamt I saw a black and green shadow with a burning heart butchering a white lion, aye. I dreamt of a woman longing for a family, waiting on a bridge that swayed and swung. On her shoulder perched a dragon with seaweed hanging from his wings. I dreamt of a roaring river and a man that was a fish. Dead he drifted, with red tears on his cheeks, but when his eyes did open, oh, I woke from terror" an old, stoped, a very short woman who stood before Ginny's form.
The women's white hair so long it almost touched the ground as she slowly approached Ginny, "I see you. I see you, wolf child. I thought it was the lord who smelled of death approaching ... You feel of innocence, that cruel man had almost come to my hill, evil." the last words come out in a whisper as Ginny twisted on the spot and felt her body attune to her human form.
The woman paid no mind to her sudden human appearance but continued speaking like Luna " I dreamt a wolf howling in the distance, but no one heard her grief. I dreamt that the sky that tore open would reunite in blood, I dreamt of a man at a feast with red serpents in his hair, magic flowed through his veins. And later I dreamt that man again, slaying a golden lion in a castle built for kings". Her eyes seem to glow red as she looked deep into Ginny's soul.
" Who are you," Ginny whispered as she knelt down and watched the frail woman walk towards her and sit on one of the stumps and close her before speaking " I was a child long ago, the weirwoods keep me alive now " as she looked down at Ginny, the blackfish appeared ushering his horse upon them.
"Ginny what are you doing girl" thundering up to her then spotting the frail women " ah the ghost of high heart what brings you out here," he said as his horse stopped and unmounted from his horse next to them.
"Aye blackfish winter is coming," she said as he looked at her with a frown " Even the bravest of men blind themselves sometimes when they are afraid to see that winter is almost here" a voice of a man who approached them with a dozen soldiers.
Ginny was about to run when the old women lay a hand on her arm " Run, and you shall only find death" her eyes pierced Ginny's.
Ginny's hand gripped her wand tightly looking at the three men who had approached them.
"What do you three want, don't try and pull anything or you'll pay with your life's," Ginny said with a touch of fire in her voice, they both looked at her and grinned then a slight man,handsome with red-gold hair. he was wearing breastplate displaying a forked purple lightning bolt " That was unkind. Right, but cruel, ah blackfish
what happened to you." he said as rubbed his chin looking up and down his body.
"Remind me not to linger here Lord Beric. Last I looked, I was southron myself, and I can thank her for this " he gestured to Ginny who looked at him angrily with her arms crossed.
" Oh, blackfish why don't you just tell them I fell from the sky too," Ginny said as she pulled out her wand, the old women moved like the wind to marvel her wand " I... I haven't seen a wand for decades, just like the children use to use" she touched Ginny's wand ever so carefully.
She stood there for a moment, her mind working furiously. " Rennervate," Ginny said the moment she touched her wand, the spell knocked everyone back but them two.
A blue mist came from her wand and connected with the old woman's hand sending Ginny's mind into a daze, floods of memories came pouring in, fire and blood and a long wither of doom had made Ginny's heart break for what this woman endured all this time.
It thoroughly covered her face and body; it pulsated a brilliant white that blinded Ginny's eyes when the brightness faded, Ginny looked at the old women who now had blond hair, and pretty young face and a smile upon her.
"Oh thank.. thank you, how is this possible I feel so young and my hair..." she closed her eyes and played with her hair as tears came upon her cheeks Ginny lay a hand on her her shoulder then received a bone-tight hug.
"You girl a witch you are," the man with an eye patch said as the other two men approached them, "Well duh," Ginny said as she patted the crying women.
"We must ride to Winterfell the rightful king harbors there under a false name," the women said as she pulled back from Ginny's hug.
"Hurry we must ride now before the usurper rides for Winterfell," she expressed in a panic as she looked at the blackfish then three men who viewed her words strangely.
"By the old Gods," Beric said in awe as they now approached the young woman " how is that possible, did you use glamour to turn her young again," the red robe man said as he inspected the women.
"No, what the hell is glamour, " Ginny said back to him as his eyebrows rose in surprise. " It was just a simple spell; I used the same one on the blackfish, " Ginny said as she pulled out a gold coin from her pocket.
"Valar Morghulis, " the strange man in red said as he bowed to Ginny who then looked at him oddly " Excuse me! don't go swearing in your language " Ginny frowned and pointed her wand at him as the two other men unsheathed their swords and pointed them at Ginny.
"Try it, and ill kill all of you too," Ginny said through gritted teeth as she took a step towards them the young women stood in between them "No! We must not fight each other; winter is coming " she gazed at everyone's eyes until they all dropped their swords to their hips
"My Lady, there is no king at Winterfell" a stocky man with a clean-shaven appearance spoke boldly to the younger women " Aye not yet there isn't but when we ask who his bastard mother was we may soon get the truth about Lyanna and Reaghar, " she said to the group
who gasped in shock.
Thoros sucked in his breath in dismay. "Is this true? Was Roberts rebellion a lie? Have we fallen that low?"
The big man scowled at him. "Lord Stark would never lie."
"There is nothing good about that war, nor the men who were in it," said the red priest. "Robert was a man in torment, and Eddard had just lost his whole family." Thoros smiled wanly. "I remember justice. It had a pleasant taste. Justice was what we were about when Lord stark led us, or so we told ourselves. Once we were king's men, knights, and drunken heroes... but some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of us all." he eyed Ginny who scowed back at him.
Ginny cast a note on the coin 'Ginny- Safe heading for Winterfell' which Hermione had given dumbledores army and placed it in the palm of her hand and lightly put her wand tip against it and watched the words sink into the coin and evaporate away.
"Ginny- Safe heading for Winterfell" the coin loudly echoed out into the air making her hand cover the coin t muffle the loud sound it made " Now you've gone and done it, girl, " the blackfish disapproving said as he helped the young women onto his horse.
The red priest walked over and studied her "I am saying we are human. You look like you are not the only one with wounds, Lady ... " My name is Ginny" she took his hand in his. "Some of my late brothers were real men when this began bloody war started. Some were... less good, shall we say? Though there are those, who say it does not matter how a person starts, but only how he ends. I suppose it is the same for women." he let go of her hand. "The Lord of light protects you, and I fear the coming war is at an end, I am afraid. That I see a new war coming in my flames". as looked out to the north.
"Winter is coming." he pointed out to the blackening sky as his horse approached him " hop on my Lady I shall see you safely to Winterfell, " he said he called his horse over.
"I am not your lady," Ginny said as she put away her wand and tried to calm her self down, then she uttered "Mi Ani Magnus" on herself, She felt the sensation of tumbling and the distance from the ground seemed to decrease before she caught it with her paws.
Ginny opened her eyes and squinted, She found the others a few feet away, looking down at her… and a look of absolute shock on their faces as a Gloden haired man caught her in some net and dragged her away by his horse as she howled out in dismay he dragged her out into the distance as the others hurried to catch him.