Benjen Stark - 5 Days Ago
He still couldn't comprehend what happened today. He was at the top of the wall and looking at the horizon. But his mind kept going back to Jon, he still couldn't believe Jon was Lyanna's boy. He was feeling very sad for Jon, he knew he had suffered for years and he was still just a little boy. He needed love and Ned never give him that. They way how Jon behaved towards him and everyone when he visited him, it was enough to tell Benjen that Jon was treated horribly. He was just completely withdrawn, barely talking to anyone, hiding in the corners of Winterfell, trying to not be seen from the other people.
That always filled Benjen with anger, he couldn't understand why was he even there if Ned didn't care for him, why even bring him there.
But now he understood why, Ned didn't love Jon, he hated him and wanted to make sure he suffered and make sure he never gets to meet his true family.
Benjen knew his brother Ned was never the same after the deaths of Brandon and father, and Robert. He always knew that but he never thought that hatred run so deep, to go so far and steal a child from his father.
Did Ned just think he would never get caught, what was he even thinking or maybe he didn't think at all?
There were so many questions in Benjen's head, looking at Jon, he had grown up but he could clearly see Lyanna in him. He always thought Jon took after Ned for looking more like a Stark then his trueborn children but know he knew he took after Lyanna.
Benjen didn't know what to do, he still wanted to visit Winterfell again and now more than ever. But he didn't know how can he stay in same room with Ned now.
Thinking about this reminded him Should I tell Ned that me and Jon knows the truth? Benjen asked himself and rubbing his chin. He quickly shook that thought away.
No, I shouldn't, telling him will make metters worse, Ned might even try to do something very stupid. No I shouldn't tell him.
Benjen thought. He knew it was only a matter of time before the king knows the truth, he knew Ned had no chance of keeping his head attached to his neck but Benjen hoped he wouldn't try to do something to the kids.
The kids were all innocent and they didn't deserve what their father did.
Benjen didn't knew how far the king will go with his punishment, but he was afraid of one thing that might happen, War.
He knew the lords of The North won't stand and just accept their lord's death.
Sure some of them might accept it when they know what Ned had done Benjen thought but he knew some of them won't stay put. They will tell Robb to go to war to avenge his father, even his own mother might tell him to go to war.
Benjen just hoped Robb wasn't stupid enough to start a war, and doom thousands of lives.
Thinking about war made him think about that bloody beast, he still couldn't believe that dragon was real, he had rubbed his eyes and blink once or twice, thinking it was just a stupid dream but he knew this was no dream and Jon really had a dragon that was big as a fucking mountain.
That was the worst part, that dragon, Jon was only a kid and yet he has the control of the largest power in the seven Kingdoms. He was afraid Jon might do something very foolish with that dragon.
He still remembered the tone of Jon, that wasn't the voice of a kid, that wasn't Jon's voice. No that was the voice of a man wanting Revenge and Blood.
Even If I wanted to kill Lord Stark?
That question frighten Benjen, Jon was only a kid, He . . . He shouldn't be thinking things like that. No he should spend time with his friends and be loved by his family.
But Jon never had any of them, spending most of the time in the Forest for the last three years, made him look older and more serious and definitely not a kid.
If Benjen didn't know him, he was sure he would think that Jon was around 14 name days and not 11 name days.
I just hope Jon won't get lost in his hatred, having a dragon might cause another Field of Fire.
Benjen thought and slowly walking around the top of the wall, he looked where Jon went with his dragon, he couldn't see him anymore but he didn't know where he even go and why beyond the wall. Benjen would think that Jon would wanted to meet his real family as soon as possible, or maybe he's afraid that they will treat him the same way as Ned Stark and Catelyn Tully.
He sigh and keeps looking until someone cleared his throat, Benjen looks at his left and sees Lord Commander Joer Mormont.
"Lord Commander" Benjen said respectfully.
"Nice view" he said with a chuckle.
He turns his head beyond the wall "Yes, I needed to think" Benjen said.
"I understand that but I need to talk to you alone in my room" Lord Commander said with a commanding tone.
"I'm coming then" Benjen said turning to him and following him to the lift.
While they were going down, it was complete silence. When they reached the ground, Benjen looked around and saw the mood of everyone.
All of them still shooked of what happened today, some of them were still doing their job but almost everyone was talking to someone, some of them looked scared and some just shocked.
"They are talking about . . . That thing" Lord Commander said when he noticed Benjen looking at the others.
"Can't blame them" Benjen responded as they make their way to his room.
Benjen gets inside and closes the door behind him, the old commander sits in his chair and fills a glass with wine for him.
"Sit" he said and puts the glass in front of Benjen.
Benjen takes a sip and looks at the lord commander.
"Now, I want to know what was that thing, I was inside, when I heard a loud scream and I thought the others themselves were here, when I went outside I saw that dragon as big as a mountain flying beyond the wall" Lord Commander said with a humorless tone.
Before Benjen could speak he continued "Why did he go out there and why can he ride a dragon, and where did that beast came from?" Lord Commander asked seriously.
"Have you send any ravens yet about the dragon?" Benjen asked avoiding his question.
Lord Commander shook his head "No, We are The Night's Watch, we don't intervene with the problems of the kingdom" he responded and drinking wine.
"Corn Corn Corn" the raven said and saw the lord commander give him corn.
"Well?" Lord Commander asked turning to him. Benjen swallowed a huge breath "I don't really know how to answer, I myself wasn't aware that he had a dragon until I saw like everyone else" The lord commander nodded convinced by his words.
"But why go beyond the wall then, and how can he ride a dragon, I thought only Targaryens can do that?" Lord commander asked quieter.
"I don't know, I didn't really have that much time to talk to him" Benjen responded his mind going back to Jon and the dragon.
Lord Commander sighed heavily "You still want to go to Winterfell?" He asked changing the subject.
Benjen wasn't sure himself, he didn't know if he could look at his brother and not punch him in the face for what he did. He takes another sip from the glass.
"I will go" Benjen responded after a few moments.
"Very well when you're leaving?" He asked.
"Today, I don't want to waste time" Benjen answered quickly and gets up and looks at Lord Commander for permission to leave.
"You can leave" he responded and Benjen left the room.
He quickly made his way to Maester Aemon's chamber. He knocked on the door "Come in" he heard and Benjen opens the door.
The old Maester was sitting close to the fire and looking at him, sometimes Benjen would forget that the old Maester was blind.
"Maester" he announced himself, the Maester doesn't turn to him but just keeps looking at the fire.
"What can I do for you brother Benjen?" He asked quietly.
"Did you know about the dragon?" He asked calmly and walks to pick up a chair and puts it close to the Maester.
The old Maester chuckled "No, he didn't tell me he had one, the others told me about him after he left, saying that he was larger than Castle Black" Maester Aemon responded proudly.
"I really wish I could still see I would wanted nothing more just to see a dragon once in my life" Maester responded happily but with a hint of sadness in his tone.
Benjen didn't know what to say to that, to him the dragon was a large beast controlled by a boy of 11 name days.
Benjen swallowed a huge breath "How . . . How does it work? How ridding a dragon works? How can you be sure Jon can control him?" He asked and noticed the scoff of the old Maester when he said Jon.
"A dragon can never be controlled Brother Benjen, and if the dragon is letting Jaehearys ride him, I can safely assume that the dragon listens to Jaehearys" the old Maester responded and turns his head to him.
"How do you know his name is Jaehearys?" He asked curious.
"Rhaegar mentioned it in his many letters, he decided for Visenya if is a girl and Queen Lyanna for Jaehearys if is a boy" Maester Aemon responded.
Benjen smiled at that and was a big surprised for his sister to be called Queen.
"Tell me what you will do Benjen Stark?" He asked with a serious tone.
"What do you mean?" He asked but knowing full well what he meant.
"Will you be against your nephew or just stay here" he asked.
He thought about it for a few moments "My place is at the wall, What Ned did is treason and I would never hate or think bad of Jon even if . . . If he wants vengeance" Benjen responded and the old Maester looked convinced and turns his head to the fire.
"Where do you think he went?" Benjen asked.
The old maester looked to be thinking about this "I think there's only one place he could go, beyond the wall, To Bloodraven".
Jaehearys Targaryen
He found flying very relaxing and give him peace and time to think about things.
He still couldn't believe what his uncle revealed, but being able to ride a dragon proved him that Rhaegar Targaryen was indeed his father.
Thinking about him made him feel different, he didn't know what to make of it. He had never meet him and only knew of him what he heard from soldiers, servants and Maester Luwin.
He didn't know what to think of his new father, he didn't know if he would even believe him.
Will he love me or hate me like Lord Stark Jaehearys asked himself and didn't know the answer. He knew Lady Stark despite him because she thought he was there to take Winterfell from her perfect Robb, even if someone would have give him Winterfell in a silver plate, he would have refused. He had no intention to stay in that hell hole, he used to call home.
He didn't know if Queen Elia Martell would think the same thing, would she look at him with the same eyes as Lady Stark or would she love him like a mother.
Again Jae didn't know the answer of any of his questions.
Being up here made him feel free of everything, here he was away of all hateful glares of Winterfell.
"You're thinking about your family again?" Bloodfyre suddenly asked.
"Yes, I can't really think of anything else, I don't know how to feel" Jaehearys responded and still feeling strange, being able to talk to a dragon.
"I understand that, I never found anyone like me, all the other dragon were different" Bloodfyre responded honestly.
"What do you mean different?" Jae asked curious.
"They were . . . Different from me, I don't know how to explain it other than I felt different from them" Bloodfyre answered with a hint of sadness.
Jae understood that feeling, the feeling of being alone and have no one around, it felt like cold.
"Does the cold bother you?" Jae asked.
"If the cold would have bothered me, I wouldn't be here" he answered.
As Bloodfyre keep flying through the frozen land of Beyond The Wall, Jae started feeling something, he felt cold and a shiver went through him.
"Do you feel this?" Jae asked.
"I do, is the magic of The Great Other" Bloodfyre responded and Jae saw the great Weirwood Tree.
"There" he said and Bloodfyre started flying towards the tree.
He landed close to it and Jae was surprised to see how big it was, it was slightly larger than any tree he had ever seen.
Jae walks forward towards the tree and in front of the entrance was a kid. Jae couldn't understand why this kid was there.
He got closer and saw that this kid was no kid, she looked different.
"We have been expecting you" she said with a melodic voice.
"How did you know I was coming?" He asked looking at her.
Seeing it now, he knew she must be a child of the forest.
He had heard stories of old nan but never expected to see one.
Looking at her closely, Jae understood why they were called Children of The Forest, the looked like children.
Old nan had told Jaehearys many stories about them. The Children of the Forest were a sapient species that resembled humans in overall shape but significantly smaller in stature, with adults being no larger than human children. Their facial anatomy is mostly identical to that of a human albeit being very rounded and soft, like that of a young child. They also have disproportionately large and expressive eyes like human babies, which are set wider in their face than would be normal for a human child of the same height and stature.
Their skin is shown to be a pale gray-green with an apparent rough to wrinkly tecture. Similarly, their eyes have been shown to be all lime green in color. Like humans, the Children of the Forest do possess hair, however, they only possess hair on their head and lack eyebrows and body hair. The Children of the Forest also seem to possess an indigo-colored blood.
The Children of the Forest worshiped nature gods, the countless and nameless spirits of every tree, every rock, and every stream. Their religion devoted to the Old Gods of the Forest had no complex temples, but according to legend it was the Children who carved faces into the sacred weirwood trees. These carved heart trees were the closest thing to a shrine in their religion.
The Children of the Forest weren't very technologically advanced, though they were skilled at woodcraft and had a great knowledge of the plants and animals of the forest. They hunted using bows made of weirwood and used blades made of dragonglass.
The wise men of the Children of the Forest were known as "Greenseers", who are said to have had impressive powerful magic at their disposal
Looking at her now, Jae wondered just what other things were hidden in this world.
"Bloodraven knows everything, A Thousands Eyes and One" she answered with the same voice.
He sigh and follows her inside.
Jae walks inside for some time and she leads through a long tunnel, Jae looks around and feels something around him that he couldn't explain. Jae keeps moving forward and the feeling was getting stronger.
They finally reach the end and Jae understands just how large the tree truly was. Jae sees other children, looking at him with interest.
Jae then sees Bloodraven, or was he his very old uncle.
"My child" he said quietly looking at him.
Jae walks closer.
"Brynden" he greeted him and saw a small smile in Bloodraven's face.
"It has been a long time since anyone called me Brynden, sometimes I even forget that my name is Brynden and not Bloodraven" he responded quietly.
"Why am I here?" Jae asked looking at him and feeling bad for him.
"Soon the war will be upon us, my boy, My time is coming to an end but you're young and have the blood to end the war" Bloodraven responded seriously.
"War? What war?" Jae asked thinking that he was talking war among the seven kingdoms.
"The true war my boy, the war that started thousands of years ago. Remember this my boy 'When The Wall Falls, The Winter Wind Blows, in That Day The Others Will Return' " he said and Jaehearys was shocked.
The others they're real.
He didn't know what to make of this, "Why? Why me?" He asked looking at Bloodraven.
"You're the Song of Ice and Fire, One Day you will understand everything" Bloodraven spoke in riddles.
"I don't understand" Jae said.
"As I said one day you will understand everything" he responded.
Jaehearys sigh heavily.
He then saw one of the childrens walking to him with a sword.
She gives it to him and Jae looks at it, it was very beautiful.
"Is Dark Sister my boy" Bloodraven said and Jaehearys gasped in shock.
"This... this doesn't belong to me" Jae said turning to Bloodraven.
"I can't use it my boy, I want you to use it, it is yours" Bloodraven said proudly.
"Thank You uncle Brynden" he said and saw a big smile on his face and he saw him murmured something under his breath.
"You can leave now" his uncle said and Jae was about to leave when he called him.
"When the time comes, We will meet again, perhaps even see an old friend" he said.
Jae didn't know what to say and just left but thinking that he was talking about Shiera Seastar.
Harry Strickland
He was walking towards the meeting, the capitans of Golden Company all gathered and ready.
He entered the large room and in the center of the table was the true heir of the iron throne Daemon Blackfyre.
Behind his back was Blackfyre and in his chest the three black headed dragon.
Soon the little birds will fly and chaos will create the bridge they need to return to their home, To Westeros.
Next We Return to Kings Landing.