Mara continued to eat her meal and drink her ale. Now when she had finished her meal she rose to her feet moving towards the harbor. It did not take her all that long to move about and find the one ship. As she moved mounting onto the main deck. No sooner had she done so then she spotted the men she would oversee. Her eyes rolled in her head as she shook it "You great louts are what I am to use to defend this ship?"
The men all looked to Mara with a bit of shock. One of the bolder of the men laughed moving towards her "Oh really? I don't think a woman like you could lead a whore to cock!"
As soon as he was within striking distance Mara lashed out grabbing hold of the man by his armor and slamming him down to the deck of the ship with as much force as she could muster. The sound of his armor caving in upon itself was incredible. The deck of the ship even gave a groaning creek of great complaint with the force the man was slammed down upon it with. With this one brought low she looked around to the rest "Listen here I shall be leading your sorry lot and it will not be easy I am sure. I do promise you one thing, if you fight for me and obey me then I shall fight even more fiercely for all of you. I will ask nothing of anyone of you that I am not willing to do myself. That is what I ask, that is what I demand. If any of you have an issue with that then get off this ship or I shall throw you off armor and all." All the men were as silent as the grave. After a moment, she was satisfied with what was going to happen next. She nodded her head with a great smile spreading over her features "Well that is all that. Now I want half of you resting the other half I will divide up and get watches set up."
She took the men she had chosen for the first watch which included herself and her hound. The others were sent down to their cabin. She and the rest of the guards went about moving to secure the ship. Not all that long after however the ship was underway and already sailing towards the destination. While on the ship Mara took her time to train all the men or rather train with them which meant she could keep up her own skills. Some of the men were foreigners which meant that she could learn all their styles of fighting. There was a man who used a spear seeming to move around with a very powerful, and delicate dance. She picked up a spear to match his moves with her own. Another was a water dancer from Braavos which meant that he was used to fighting aboard a ship. She did take a very special interest in this wonderful looking dance. Now she did her best to learn the water dance, and yet she would not learn it very well at all. The moves were just too strange for her to master, but she did learn a lot of the movements as well as the reaction times. The sailing was nearly a month long and while they did indeed have close calls they did not meet any real fights or have any Ironborn attack them. At the end of their trip they had reached Highgarden. It seemed that there was to be a tourney celebrating one of the Tyrell's name day or something. The man paid Mara her coin which was very respectable wages considering there had been no fighting of any kind. She didn't mind and instead just enjoyed the great festivities. As she sat in one of the taverns drinking and eating her fill she couldn't help, but notice that only a few of the Northern houses had been invited, or perhaps it was that not many had bothered to show up.
She saw the Hornwoods, as well as the Dustins, but they were the only ones. She thought she glanced a Stark banner but there was no way that she could be sure. As she sat there one such knight made an approach this knight wore the blazing sun of the Karstarks. He was most likely just one of their soldiers, hoping to be made a knight.