It had been three years since she and Gendry had parted ways, and many things had happened in that time. She was now a trained killer of the faceless men. As she walked down the road away from the docks at kings landing, Sword at her hip and cloak covering her body. Her head left uncovered, getting her quite a few stares. She had kept her hair shot when it got too long and hung in her eyes she would hack it off with a knife.

Gendry now worked as a blacksmith providing armor for Bran at winterfell. All day he would pond on metal and most of the night he would do the same. He rarely slept and when did he dreamt about the times he, Arya and Hot pie had spent together. And when the news came to him that she was presumed dead it was just too hard for him to think about and so he hammered metal and made armor for her little brother, in some way he felt that by doing that he was helping her.

Arya walked up the kingsroad at her next encounter with a village she decided to get a horse. As she sat down she rubbed her feet, she was used to walking and she had walked three quarters of the way there and well she had come to the conclusion that it was time she had a horse. She picked herself up, shading her eyes she looked at the sky. The sun was just passed its highest peak and it was about another hour or two walk to the next village so she readjusted her belt and pack and started walking again. As she walked the day got darker not because of the sun going down the because of the clouds that covered the North most of the time rolled in over head and she was soon reminded that Winter is coming.

Gendry wiped his hands on a cloth and admired his work a two handed sword that was light enough to use with one had if needed, it had a wolves head as its pummel and two wolves heads as the hilt. All in all it was a very fine sword. He didn't know why he forged it but the idea just suddenly popped into his head that evening whilst he was watching Shaggydog and Summer lie together next to the front gates as if they knew someone was coming that no one else did. Gendry pulled on his jerkin and crossed over the courtyard to the two Dire Wolves, he knelt down next to them and scratched the space between their ears. They were both so big that when they were on all fours they were about the size of a small horse. "What is it you guy can tell that the rest of us can't?" Gendry said to them. But they just kept looking out through the gates and gave a slight huff as if to say what it was. Gendry got back to his feet, he had more work to do. So leaving the two wolves to themselves he went back to his forge.

Arya stayed the night in a little inn that buzzed with life, women going from one man to the next and in the morning Arya haggled with a man about a price for a horse, he had tried to rip her off at first saying that it was a fine beast and that it would cost her twenty silver pieces. But having grown up in a Castle she knew the difference between horses so she soon haggled herself a better horse. And within an hour after that she was riding along the kingsroad atop a beautiful gray mere.

Gendry had been commissioned by Bran to forge armor for Shaggydog and Summer. With winter soon apon them he wanted the wolves to have something a little tougher than fur to protect them. Gendry hammered on the helmet that was to be Shaggydogs'. It had taken him longer than he had first presumed and all he had to show for it was this one helmet that he was still hammering. After he dipped it into a trough of water,a buttet being a little small, he admired his work. As if on cue Shaggydog padded round the corner of the forge and stuck his inside. Gendry smiled at the Diere wolf and walked over to him; he slid the helmet onto Shaggydogs' head and took a step back.

"I would defiantly run from you if I saw a fully armoured Diere wolf coming at me." Gendry said folding his arms. "It's not to heavy is it? I can make it lighter if you'd like?"

Shaggydog flared his nostrils and nudged Gendry with his snout. Gendry petted his damp snout then when back to work on the next helmet.

Okay there you have it sorry for the long wait and there will be more to come. R&R.