Brynden

Jasper and his companions had arrived some 30 minutes ago he was excited about seeing his old friend he had last seen him two years prior when he was at Riverrun with his father who was discussing a border dispute with Jonos Bracken which ended in his uncle's death,Lord Hoster awarded Bryndens father with a bit of braken land which lord tytos burned to the ground out of rage nobody was quite bothered the land wasnt very fertile but one of Jonos s ancestors was buried there so Lord Tytos had a rider deliver the bones to stone hedge.

Brynden went to the huge dead weirwood tree in the godswood he was surprised to see Jasper there was he praying? he was Jasper was kneeling before the weirwood muttering a prayer when he finished Brynden walked up to him and said

"i had no idea you kept the old gods"

Jasper looked like wanted to avoid the conversation but he eventually answered "when i was younger i prayed to the seven for my mother but nothing happened when i prayed to the old gods a bat flew overhead i took it as a sign become the sigil of my mothers house is several bats"

Brynden was genuinely surprised he always thought Jasper was a cynic but he seemed to really care about his mother Brynden realised it was time to move the conversation along so he didn t cause awkwardness

"so ehm who was the girl that game here with you"

Jasper looked up at him "oh you mean lilly yeah her fathers inn was burned to the burned to the ground and her father was dead so we fought of the bandits it cost Ser Willis his eye but she was extremely grateful and has already blocked out all memories of her head or thats what i think at least what i think whenever i bring it up she seems oblivious but oh well at least she is ok"

Brynden had a look of joy "wait did you kill anybody like a bandit oh i wish i was there it would have been so amazing"

Jasper was surprised that his friend asked but neverless he replied "yea i did but i would rather not talk about it"

Brynden was satisfied with that answer he started running toward the courtyard,when they arrived there he asked "Jasper do you want to practise your skill with a sword remember what last time don't you"he laughed Jasper said nothing just glared in his direction"i jest my friend now lets spar"

he tossed him a sword but Jasper didn't catch it instead he walked over to the rack where the wooden swords were kept and he picked up a hand and a half sword "what? I like to use both hands or just one hand I like to have a choice"

Brynden realised he had never fought someone using two hands he was nervous he was a bit smaller than by about 4 inches but he was lean and jasper was muscular he would have to use speed on him not brute strength ok lets start he circled Jasper looking for any weaknesses but found none he was going to have to let Jasper strike first not before long he did Brynden moved to the left and swung at him Jasper replied by lifting his sword up to block it pushing his sword out of his hand then before Brynden knew what was going on Jasper held his sword towards Bryndens throat "yield" Jasper smirked

Brynden just dived to the side and grabbed his sword and hit Jaspers left leg and swung for his shoulder but jasper raised his sword just in time then struggled up then swung his sword at Brynden's legs even when he brought his sword down to block Brynden was still knocked of his feet into the dirt jasper kicked away Bryndens sword and said again "yield?"

he nodded and took his friend hand up and started to laugh as they walked to the great hall.

Jasper He was surprised at the amount of fun he had sparring it was the most he had in a while whenever he had spared hith Edmure and his lackwits they always ganged up on him and called him names and stole his sweets or toys basically what ever he had only Cat Lysa and Peytr stood up for him and for that he was grateful they were the only people that were kind to him apart from the Blackwoods.

They arrived at they great hall he was greeted by Bethany, Bryndens twin sister she had long black hair with light blue eyes "hi jasper" she said in her soft voice which caused Jasper to blush

"h ..h.. hi Beth" he stammered she giggled and ran away toward her father

He shook his head and head toward his seat which was next to Brynden they were having a selection of roast boar honeyed trout and several other fish he only noticed the trout because it was his sigil but he took no offence if any was ever meant,

"so Jasper what made you want to be fostered here" Lord Tytos spoke in his calm still voice

Jasper was taken aback by this "well i liked Brynden and Beth so i thought i could foster with friend plus you are the only family that keeps the same religion as me so yea" Lord Tytos had a look of intrigue in his eyes he looked genuinely surprised then continued on with his meal.

He had left the great hall and went to his chambers to go to sleep for the night when he seen his sworn sword Ser Willis kissing a serving girl and groping her, he was old enough to know what was going on so he left them to their fun and went to his that night he had terrible nightmares cat was older and her throat was being slit and a young man being impaled in the heart with a dagger, riverrun was burnt to the ground and a giant of a man cleaved him in half with a giant two handed sword before he woke up sweating like a pig being roasted he couldn't sleep the rest of the night we heard a knock at his door when he went to get it no one was there he thought it was just in his head so he went back into his chambers and passed out thirty minutes later just to have even more nightmares he knew he would have them for a while until he got used to Raventree hall.