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Third person pov:
While the raven from the Lannister's flew to the Twins, and while Myke Frey sailed to Maidenpool, Walder had returned to the Twins with his caravan.
While Walder was off in the North, House Stark had sent the money for the road through the neck to the Twins along with the Reeds money, and begun widening the embankment.
By the time he had returned from the North, the embankment was only half way finished.
Walder thought after he had been doing so much work, he would take a long break from any plans and machinations for a time.
He is relaxing in the bathhouse in the Twins, it turned out better than he could've imagined.
The bathhouse was connected to the castle so no one has to go outside to get to it, and was built with fired bricks along with bronze pipes instead of copper or lead.
The inside of the bathhouse had plain polished white limestone walls, a mosaic tiled floor and pool.
The mosaic in the pool was the of the world tree with mosaic vines radiating out from it, the pool had benches along the edges.
He sat in the pool with his head back, eyes close, and dozing off into his head.
Walder thought of ways he could train girls at the garden, maybe gain the services of water dancers to train the girls, the boys, and maybe train his own daughters.
If he does choose to start having the girls trained, he will have to have separate rooms from the boys, a stock of moon tea, but the same standards as the boys.
Same standard uniform, food, training, teaching, living arrangements and haircut.
The only thing he would have to change was the armor given on graduation to the girls.
Walder dreamed of a conversation he had with the Entity that gave him the choice at a new life.
Flashback begins:
Walder and his caravan made camp for the night in the lands of house Ironsmith, he laid in his bed as he drifted off into the twilight in his furs.
He awoke in another place, but it is a place he once knew well from his first life.
It was the neighborhood pool from his childhood, he looked around, he was on one of the pool side sun chairs.
He could feel the warmth of the sunlight upon his skin, smell the chlorine in the air, hear the hum and chirp of bugs around him.
"How am I here, my memories of this world are fading." He said, sitting up on his elbows
Looking at down at himself, he was still in the Walder body, but he wasn't wearing anything.
"I brought you here, if I remember correctly the smell of chlorine always had a calming effect on you in your other life." Someone said, from behind him
What the entity said was true, the smell of chlorine or ocean always brought back happy memories in his past life, but now the connection to those memories were becoming vague.
Walder turned around to see the Entity that sent him to this world sitting in the shade, still looking like he was made of the universe, but this time he was wearing a black three-piece suit.
"I got to know, why is it that I am always naked when I meet you?" Walder asked
The Entity walked over to Walder.
"Clothes are not a part of the soul." He said, unbuttoning his jacket as he sat
Walder laid back down, "Since you answered my question, what the hell you want?" Walder asked, closing his eyes
"I see that you being reborn hasn't changed you very much." Entity said, chuckling
Walder frowned at him saying that, "It has changed me, but I wear a difference face for different situations, sometimes I have to act as if I have no blood on my hands or act as if my hands are stained red." Walder said
"Back to the question you asked, I want you to entertain me and to help you entertain me better I will give you something." The Entity said, snapping his fingers
Walder opened his eyes, sitting up onto his elbows, he saw four different colored orbs floating before him.
The Entity got up from his chair, "This orb will enhance your lineages health and will be unable to get infected by any disease for those who choose this one." He said, pointing to the first orb
The first orb was a smooth, pink orb with wisps of energy coming off of it.
Stepping up to the next orb, "This one will make you invulnerable to fire, lava, wild fire, dragon fire and molten metal." He said, moving onto the next orb
The second orb looked like a mini sun with yellow flames arching off from it.
Sitting back down, "The third one will make it that you can survive the coldest tundra, can't get frost bite, and can't feel the cold." He said, laying back into the chair
The third orb was not as special looking as the other orbs, it looked to be an orb made of regular ice.
The Entity snapped his fingers, replacing his three-piece suit with a pair of white board shorts.
Putting on circle lensed sunglasses, "The last one will grant you immunity from those R'hllor fuckers, they can't us blood, shadow magic against directly you, and you will be able to lie through your teeth around them, and they can't see you in their vision fires." He said
This orb was pure black with white cracks all over the orb.
"For the first one, what do mean by enhancing my lineages health, and I thought I was immortal so I couldn't die from diseases?" Walder asked, tilting his head over to the Entity
Sitting in his chair, "Ok, enhancing your lineage health means they will be less likely of getting sick or dying from child birth, infection, and diet. You wouldn't die from disease; you could still carry it and infect others." He said, laying back down
Walder hummed in his throat, "All of them sounded good especially the first and last one, I will take the first one." He said, standing up from his chair
Walking forward to the edge of the pool, he grabbed the pink orb. It was absorbed into his body upon contact.
Walder fell to the ground in pain, it felt like his body was tearing it self apart then putting itself back together.
If someone could see this, they would see besides him heaving in pain, they would see every vein on his body glowing a fluorescent light pink.
The scene in Walder's head began to fade from his minds eye.
Flashback ends:
The sound of movement in the pool brought Walder out of his memory, sitting up on his bench he saw his wife Alora lowering herself into the water.
Even after having three children, Alora is still beautiful as ever but with some small changes have happened.
Her hips had widened from bearing children, she has a more fit build from doing Walder's workout, and she absorbed some characteristics of the south, wearing dresses or gowns but with pants underneath and a tear away skirt.
"Walder my love, not that I don't enjoy this place you had built, but why did you want this built?" She asked, wading through the water to him
"This makes bathing simpler in the way you don't have to wait for a servant to heat water and then carry up several flights of stairs to our bed chamber." He said, leaning back into the bench
"Alora, how would you feel about our daughters being taught by a Braavosi water dancer in the future?" Walder asked
"I would be agreeable to it as long as they didn't neglect their other arms training." She mumbled with her eyes closed
Alora and Walder have learned to be complement and opposing forces to each other, Walder enjoyed his solitary activities, reading, hunts, and his schemes, while Alora enjoyed the activities of a social butterfly, dancing, singing, and feasts or parties.
Their marriage may have begun as just a deal between their houses, but now they truly love each other.
"Alora, I have something to tell you something." He said, frowning
"What is it my love?" she asked, sensing his change of mood
"Me and Alaric were or are-." He said, scratching the back of his neck
"You mean the you and Alaric have feelings for one another, my love I knew that for a long time, you too look at each other the same way you look at me." She said, chuckling
Kissing him on the lips, "I except you for who you are, and I except that your love is not just for me." She said, kissing him again
"I love you." He said, kissing her back