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Severus looked at the bank of river from where he was sitting and groaned slightly. When he thought he could be at a little peace from all the shouting and loud talks of the king's soldiers in the nearby inn, his peace was disturbed by two brats coming near the banks of river where he had chosen to sit in peace. One of the brat was a boy and he looked to be around his age whereas the other was a girl around nine with brown hair, grey eyes and a slightly long face. The girl had a wolf with her which seemed to be her pet wolf judging by the way it followed her.
He saw them as both of them seemed to be looking at the banks of river for something, the girl was the first to spot him on the huge tree's branch as she yelped slightly and then came towards him.
"Who are you and why are you spying on us?" she demanded as she looked at him.
Severus was amused at the girl's audicity, he looked downwards to both of them who were staring upwards at him.
"M' Lady, I was here from the start even before you arrived here and searched for things" he said calmly as he looked at the brats, technically he was still the age of the boy with the girl.
It had been three long years since he was here with a deaged body in this barbaric world, he had woken up in the Wolfswood in the North after which he had legillimised people to learn their language and knowledge. He had then made his way from the Wolfswood to South through Neck where he was on his way to Citadel as apparently it was the centre of knowledge in this world. Thankfully the Citadel was open for baseborn and bastards which gave him the oppurtunity to learn. Since he knew his numbers and language of this world, he was eligible for learning and entered as a novice and left as an accolyte with record chains in a record time. Even the Lord of Oldtown, Lord Leyton Hightower had invited him to meet him after he forged nearly all the chains in the Citadel within 8 months. He would have done it more sooner within a month but it would have been highly unusual so he took his time as he read through the citadel. At the age of eleven he had entered in the citadel and left after 8 months and 6 days. Knowledge was highly backward so he benefitted from it.
Severus had been highly versed in both magical and muggle knowledge, he was not like his fellow wizards who thought muggles were beneath them. No, Severus Snape kept tracks of their findings and their discoveries in various fields carefully. Muggle Science had grasped his attention when he saw and heard about the completion of Apollo mission. The pureblood wizards could brag their lineage no matter what but they hardly had reached moon unlike the muggles. During his summers after the completion of first wizarding war, he had taken tours and visited many cities throughout the world both muggle and magical. He had learnt many things such as engineering, higher advanced mathematics and other stuffs like that with the help of a little legillimency. He had visited many cities and studied there developments and cultures which always gave him an edge. He had studied about the various developments, inventions throughout both magical and muggle civilization. On one such ruins on venturing deeper and using extremely dark spells to uncover anything of value, he had found stone tablets of magical runes which could perform the desired act if they were put in a specific sequence and a little magic is pushed to them. He had theorized that they were perhaps the predecessors of modern wands. Unlike modern runes which were only used for learning or decoding languages, this ones were magical and Severus was very much pleased with his discovery.
He had hidden it and worked on them during the years, it was during 1993 that he was finally successful in decoding them. He had hoped to publish the work after the defeat of dark lord but unfortunately he died before doing so. However he had found himself here in this world with a body of ten year old child. He had checked the mirror and found his younger face staring at him with a small nose and straight teeth. He had cursed for long to whoever sent him here in this backward world. He had nothing in his name, he was no son of a Lord or Noble. Infact he claimed himself to be a snow, as a bastard as it would make people discard his worth more easily.
Besides Severus Snow had a nice ring to it, he thought amusedly. The only thing with him was his charmed pouch which contained nearly every seed or cuttings of potions plant which could be found in magical world. He had started keeping and preserving them as a hobby but the practise had paid as he could brew potions in this world. Granted he still hadn't his wand but he did just fine with his magical runes unless he found himself in unfavourable conditions. His stay in this world had been eventful till now though, he thought amusedly.
He had been on his way to North as he wanted to spend his life in silence and peace after he discovered the atrocities commited in this world. Children and men burned alive all for a sacrifice in the name of god, such god was no god in his eyes, he thought darkly. He had seen atrocities during the war but even he had a heart despite it making its appearance very rarely.
"Hmm" the girl spoke up and left with the boy to do what they were doing. The girl's dress indicated that she was from a noble family and though her mannerisms indicated other.
Minutes later as he was awakened from his nap and he calmly saw the confrontation between The Crown Prince and the girl, he could't help but feel amused. The girl had a spark and fierce nature, 'Arya' was her name if he heard correct. He had heard from rumours that the crown Prince was a cunt but seeing it from his own eyes made it worse. One would think that being The Crown Prince would make him calm and collected with a clear head on his shoulder but it seemed his expectations were going to be gone for good once again.
However things escalated quickly when The Prince placed his sword on the boy's cheek and it drew thick drops of blood from his cheek. The girl Arya who he learned that to be the Prince's sister in law quickly hit the stick at the back of his head. The Prince went staggering back and the boy started to run towards the trees as fast as he could. Then started the confrontation between the Prince and the girl and he watched everything as the grey wolf bit the hand of the Prince as he lunged towards the girl who was backed to the tree now.
He saw as the girl Arya ran away after she threw the Prince's sword to the river. "Lion's tooth" Severus scoffed at the name of the sword, he wondered what to do but then again if he said anything then he will come in the attention of the Lannisters but then again the Prince was wrong in his actions and this was a good chance to gain goodwill in the North.
Perhaps he should go after the girl and the boy as they had ran away in different directions. It seemed he was going to be in a situation now, besides getting the goodwill of Starks would maybe help him in the future in North, he thought.
He warged into one of his pet raven which was on another tree as he made it flew to the butcher boy's direction while he landed softly without a sound due to the silencing runes on his shoes. The Prince and his bethroted were too busy to spot him as he made his way swiftly through the woods behind the Stark girl.
Arya Stark was afraid as she rode her horse until her legs felt tired after half an hour of riding through the woods on her horse. She was so intent on fleeing that she never checked for another horse which was behind her in an instant.
"You know you running away would make it seem that you were guilty" a voice said from behind her as she turned quickly only to see the boy from before whom she had seen sitting in the branch of tree. He was riding a horse which looked pretty strong, besides him was another horse with some bags and a rolled package bound to its saddle.
"If the Lannisters had sent you, then I won't go" she said as she decided to ride away from the man into another direction. Nymeria would surely follow her or attack the boy.
"Nobody had sent me but if you want me to testify for you, I can do that M'Lady" he said as he leapt from his horse.
Arya looked at him, he was tall and muscular as Robb. He was perhaps taller than Robb, Arya thought as she looked at him. He was pale with dark eyes and dark hair and he seemed to be wealthy judging by his clothes which were made of leather. She knew smallfolk didn't wore that type of clothes. He looked to be around Mycah's age she though inwardly.
Arya looked at him as he frowned suddenly and closed his eyes, "we must hurry, the Lannisters had arranged search party for you same as your family. Your friend could be found by Lannisters if he is not careful" he said opening his eyes.
Thinking about Mycah, she immediately decided what she must do. She didn't wanted her friend to be killed by the Lannisters. She had heard about them from her father, her father didn't liked them and if her father didn't liked anyone then they must be cruel or upto no good. The boy who was infront of him seemed to be saying the truth, even Nymeria was not growling or was tense around him unlike the growling self of hers infront of new people. Old nan had told her that animals could sniff out people with bad intentions and if Nymeria was calm around him then surely she could trust him. Besides he looked alone and she couldn't see him wearing any Lannister armor or sigil in his clothes like she had seen wearing the soldiers.
She nodded "how will we find Mycah?" she asked him worried, the boy just pointed to their left "he is on that way" the boy said simply.
The boy climbed on his horse instantly as he rode to the left, he sure was fast in a horse. Nymeria let out a small howl as Arya immediately started following him through the woods on her horse.
'His horse is fast and even his horse rides swiftly without much sound' Arya remarked as she trailed behind his horse riding her own.
Ned Stark was very angry and worried. He had rode with King and when he returned only to be informed that his daughter was not here and that the Crown Prince Joffrey was harmed by his daughter. Jory who had been in the camp had already send men who were searching the woods, the Lannister men were there too by the orders of queen.
Ned just hoped that his daughter was safe and not harmed by anyone. If even a hair of her was harmed by the Lannisters then they would pay. Sansa was besides herself and had not stopped crying, the septa was there with her as she tried to console her.
Robert was with Pycelle and the queen who was there with the crown prince Joffrey as his wounds were being tended. Robert had cursed loudly when he had heard about the entire situation from the queen's mouth and Ned could see that he hardly wanted to do anything with the situation. Ned knew that he didn't liked the queen but looking at the hostility between them, he realised that even he himself didn't knew that the matters were so worse.
'Starks don't do well in south' he remembered inwardly with worry as he thought about the incident which happened today. His father's death, Brandon and Lyanna's came to his mind. He immediately put those thoughts out of his mind, he had a duty and responsibility now. It wouldn't do any good to wallow himself in guilt and sadness when it would hardly help him anywhere at this moment.
He suddenly saw Vayon coming towards him with fast steps, he immediately spoke up hurriedly "Lord Stark, Jory had sent word. They had found Lady Arya along with the butcher's boy and another boy who seemed to be some king of wanderer."
Ned felt relieved, it seemed the old gods heard his prayers "I will be coming there" he said to Vayon who nodded as he made his way with Vayon to meet his daughter. He just hoped that the mess would be sorted completely.