Chapter 2: The Heir Returns

Eleven months later, April 298 AC (After Conquest)

Harry's trip across the Narrow Sea had been a smashing success. While he had missed Kara Stone terribly, he had achieved all his goals, both stated and secret. On his first day in Braavos he found a recruiter for the Windblown, a sizable mercenary company even now fighting down in the Disputed Lands. The recruiter had never heard of an observer contract but thought it an interesting way to earn his group and himself some gold so after thirty minutes of haggling Harry hired a scribe and a contract between the Windblown and Ser Harold Hardyng was signed. He would be traveling with the newest recruits down the eastern coast of the Narrow Sea in a weeks time.

The two week long ship ride over to Braavos had been illuminating magically to the young wizard because he and the book had settled upon a number of new spells that would be required on this journey. The first was active legilimency or the Legilimens hex. The spell allowed the caster to thrust their magic along with a probe from their mind into the brain of another. Once inside further branches of the mind arts could be employed, though most of those revolved around overcoming another's Occlumeny defenses.

Harry needed this spell because the Free Cities all spoke various dialects of High Valyrian rather than the Westerosi common tongue. He would get nowhere with his secret potions research if he couldn't even speak to the apothecaries. So the book showed him a method to use legilimency to steal someone's linguistic knowledge rather than take or copy their knowledge or memories. It required Harry to learn a little bit of the anatomy of the brain since this information was housed in a completely different area than what he would usually be searching through.

That first night in Braavos Harry snuck out of his room and found a slew of sleazy bravos and criminals roaming the night to use in perfecting the art. He failed to find the right target in his first two attempts and had to break off or risk being attacked while motionless looking into another's mind. These failures did allow him to test out his Obliviation and Confundus curses. The man who provided him with the High Valyrian language was a loudmouth braggart who had knocked a child unconscious and was in the midst of raping the mother in an alleyway when Harry relieved him of his native tongue quickly followed by knocking him unconscious to rescue the woman. In the aftermath his head felt like it was going to burst, and he knew he would be throwing up soon, so he staggered back to his rented room and passed out.

The second necessary magical skill Harry began learning on the ship over to Braavos was warding. He learned very simple muggle repelling, silencing, and notice-me-not wards that would be essential for he and the book to set up potions laboratories along their journey. The key aspects in warding were to use runes or ward stones, containing more detailed runic arrays, to define an area of effect to ward something. Where the warding arts become difficult and complex were in defining more complex concepts to ward or exceptions to what is warded. The matter of providing power to wards also required higher level magics and rituals that Harry was not yet prepared for. But simple temporary wards, like barring animals, or diverting non-magical humans were well within his grasp to both cast and power.

So, Harry started in Braavos with a routine of scouting out likely purveyors of ingredients during the day and treating his guard detail to brothels for dinner and the nights entertainment. He would always appear to go off with a whore, but would quickly stun her and Apparate out into the evening to purchase ingredients and pre-brewed elixirs.

The book showed him many spells and processes to determine the true nature of substances since names of plants and animal products could change between each region. Always in the last night at any location Harry would venture out again to stock up on ingredients found to be useful as well as secure seeds or grafts to take home to the Vale. With his wards up, he and the Grimoire could brew and experiment to their hearts content, as long as they didn't blow up any cauldrons. That fortunately only occurred once in a brothel in Pentos.

By the time Harry returned to Gulltown eleven months after leaving he was now five inches taller and thirty pounds heavier, thanks to a late adolescent growth spurt. He had also established what he felt like was a repertoire of highly useful potions, though according to the book it was a paltry list compared to what was available to Archmage Potter. Harry now had in his potions case, elixirs to provide six hours of alertness without a crash, a potion to double his physical strength for half an hour, a calming draught, as well as one that would send a drinker into a towering rage. There was also a potion to flame someone's lust towards a target, and a potion that would place it's drinker into an unnatural sleep for a day.

His foray into the healing arts was less successful. The book did show him some first aid charms to staunch and close a wound or set a broken bone, as well as a diagnostic charm to tell him what was wrong with a patient. He even learned a pretty useful charm to check for poisons or toxins in one's food or drink although it was a bit too flashy for open use. But their alchemical study provided only one successful potion for medical purposes. A healing curative that would increase one's healing rate a hundred fold. What Harry dubbed the regeneration potion would not fix a mortal wound or solve excessive blood loss, but if it was an injury that could potentially heal on it's own, it would and with great speed. It had the added benefit of making sure bones, tendons, and ligaments set properly due to something called a genetic blueprint according to the Grimoire.

The book was quite disappointed only a single magical healing potion was found. They did discover what the book called an anti-biotic paste of mundane origins so there was some hope they'd eventually improve upon it. It was useful none the less in keeping infections from wounds as they healed naturally. The two recipes were a poor substitute for the hundreds of healing brews the book knew, but which all called for magical plant or animal derived ingredients that did not exist in this world at this time.

He also addressed his concerns over poisons. He now had an antidote which would halt the method of action of all the poisons that he tested on his trip. Harry also had a poison purgative that would force out the offending toxin for later identification or evidence. Harry had taken to wearing a pouch at his belt containing the tandem antidotes as well as a few other useful potions sealed in glass vials surrounding by hardened clay. The stasis charm the book had taught him to ensure their clippings made the journey home would also keep the potions viable for half a year. He barely convinced the book he should have a magical poison that would be unknown to all Maesters and apothecaries alike. He reasoned he'd rather have it and not need it than the reverse. Harry really didn't have any intention to use poison, as he was a warrior and doing so would hurt his honor as a knight. No, his thoughts in this regard tended toward offering Kara some means to defend herself in the future.

So now he was back in Waynwood Keep with his new squire Willum Royce in tow, relating to his foster family his adventures in Essos. His foster brothers Ser Morton and Ser Wallace were especially interested in what he learned of war amongst the sellswords. He agreed to meet with them on the morrow to create notes on the lessons he learned observing not only the Windblown but many other companies as well. It was at that welcome home feast that he first learned of the death of Lord Jon Arryn and the sudden arrival of Lysa Arryn at the Bloody Gate with the Lord Presumptive Robert. Ser Harold Hardyng was once again the Heir to the Vale of Arryn.

The young Lord Paramount and his mother had apparently sequestered themselves in the Eyrie without calling in the Vale Lords to swear fealty. There was much speculation on who would be the regent and whether or not that involved a marriage to Lysa Arryn nee Tully. For now it seemed the mother and son were content to allow Steward Royce to continue running the Vale as he had been for the last seventeen years.

Ser Donnel Waynwood had sent word from the Bloody Gate that two weeks ago Catelyn Stark nee Tully had shown up with a ragged band and Tyrion Lannister in custody. Apparently they were set upon by raiders from the mountain clans. A second raven only a week ago related that Lysa was holding the Imp prisoner until he confessed to the crimes of attempted murder of Bran Stark and the poisoning of Lord Jon Arryn.

"Wait, what?" Harry asked, flabbergasted.

"Yes, it seems she's holding the Imp in the sky cells as we speak," said Lady Anya

"Is she trying to start a war between the Lannisters and the Vale?" asked Harry in exasperation.

"I'm sure I don't know what you mean son, and I'd mind your tone for our Liege Lady," his foster mother chastised.

"Sorry mother," he frowned. "It's just what if the Imp dies before he confesses or is innocent. I can't see the architect of the Rains of Castemere doing nothing about the death of his heir." Harry paused in thought.

"Lady Waynwood, would it be alright if my foster brothers Ser Morton and Wallace accompany me to the Moon Gate to return the men-at-arms Steward Royce provided for my escort. It seems like some very momentous actions are taking place at the Eyrie and us Waynwoods should have our say."

Lady Anya took her time responding and Ser Morton leaned over to whisper in her ear. She nodded her head and responded, "I think you are correct. I had hoped having Donnel nearby at the Bloody Gate would keep us informed but I hadn't really thought much past a Lannister poisoning Lord Jon. We may need to attempt to influence events for a good outcome for House Waynwood." She smiled at her youngest son, for in her heart that's what Harry had become.

HP & aSoIaF

Despite his concerns over the political intrigue in the Eyrie, Harry had a joyous reunion with Kara. It had been a bit hostile at first due to rumors of Harry's nearly nightly trips to brothels throughout Essos. But Harry told Kara about his subterfuge to gain time away from his escort. She still wasn't entirely convinced so Harry did admit to one indiscretion. In Tyrosh, he encountered a pair of nineteen year old identical twins. They had raven black hair, big black eyes, to go with pale white unblemished skin. And most importantly no qualms over incest or lesbian love. After being coaxed into further relating the details of the encounter, the now highly aroused Kara agreed that she also would not have been able to pass up such temptation.

This revelation unfortunately did not have the desired effect of cooling Kara's concern of him being unfaithful to her by laying with foreign whores. That is until Harry went through a supposed Magical Oath on his life and his magic to convince her. The Grimoire had instructed him long ago that only enchanted parchment signed in Wizard's blood could hold him to an oath. But he didn't feel too bad about playing upon Kara's ignorance because he really hadn't strayed except for those kinky twins in Tyrosh.

That confession though turned Harry's mind to wondering about Kara's faithfulness. While he had no doubts that she loved him still, he knew she was an ambitious girl with a high libido who went after what she wanted. While they had made claims and shared their dreams of her being mistress Hardyng having nightly threesomes with his equally beautiful future dame Hardying, eleven months was a long time for Kara Stone of all people to go without sex. Harry become quiet angry and jealous when he sensed guilt from Kara while he asked her if she had been with anyone else while he was away. As the entire room full of objects began to levitate and vibrate in his first show of accidental magic in years, the blond maiden hurriedly explained her sexual exploration while he was away.

She knew she wouldn't want any other man in her bed, despite all of the offers she received, many of which Kara guessed were organized by Lady Waynwood to naturally separate the two before marriage did the job for her. Yet Kara was a teenager in love with her childhood sweetheart and the embodiment of all of her dreams. She was also a true Lannister and craved the power to rule her domain, whatever that domain would eventually become. As such she could not imagine anyone more able to meet that need than Westeros's only wizard.

Instead, knowing her own sexual curiosity and seeing it as a duty to her future ...lover?...husband? Kara knew that she must grow skilled in having sex with women in preparation for their dreams. As the terrible emotional magic that had pervaded the room began to recede Kara explained her forays into finding a lesbian lover while Harry was abroad.

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She started with innocent flirtations with the younger women and maidens around the keep. Kara then took to using lingering glances while bathing in the communal bathes of the keep to test out potential Sapphic devotees. Fortunately she found a taker in Ironoaks' youngest Septa before anyone caught onto her intentions. Jocelyn was one and twenty with smallish breasts and had the pale white alabaster skin only seen in those that had spent most of their lives indoors. She had brown, short cropped hair that was usually hidden beneath of habit as well as warm doe-like hazel eyes.

As Kara began to describe her lover, Harry began to divest himself of his feast clothes and sat nearer to Kara on his large, rune softened bed. Kara finished describing Joceyln's breasts and moved onto her limbs and feet, and Harry was already erect. As Kara described her first kiss in the nearly empty Sept one early morning, Harry remembered to charge up the muggle repelling and sound dampening wards that he had applied to his room right before the feast for this eventuality.

Harry returned to the bed as Kara described divesting the Septa of her robes and groping her bare tits and ass. The blue eyed maiden decided to show Harry exactly what she had done with her own body and quickly lost her dress and shift. As she first caressed then grabbed her own buttocks while turned away from Harry, the black-haired wizard took in her nude body. Kara was still a golden bronze from head to toe, but if possible it seems she had taken in more sun as her hair was a slightly lighter blond, now midway between straw and white. Harold wasn't the only one to have gone through a growth spurt, whereas he was now clearly a man if a younger one, Kara had also blossomed further.

She was still quite lithe with very toned legs, stomach, and a heart shaped ass that begged to be grabbed. But she was now a few inches taller, at four inches above five feet, and her hips had widened some. As Kara turned to face Harry so he could see her rub her breasts and grasp her nipples along with her story, the young knight noticed some other pleasant changes in his love. Her breasts had swelled to the point he would require his full hand to encircle one, though they remained high with the nipple slightly pointed up. Kara had also for some reason shaved her pubic area as well as her legs and arms.

Kara quickly explained why as her story about Jocelyn continued with them first fingering each other to orgasm, then later, in the Hardyng House no less, licking each other's pussies while gently manipulated their clits or fingering even more. Kara had shown Harry how pretty her clean shaven lips could be and how wet she was getting from reliving her past female conquest with her love. Harry couldn't hold back from stroking himself as Kara began to describe the different positions they had licked each other in. As she began to wrap up she started to tell her man about how licking and twirling her tongue around Jocelyn's pussy and even her asshole had made Kara long for licking her lord's cock and exploring other ways to please him with her tongue and mouth.

With that said she gently removed Harry hands from his member and replaced them with her own smaller fingers near the base and cupping his balls. Kara then proceeded to lick up and down what was left of his cock above her hand. She would pause occasionally to swirl her tongue around the head or kiss the tip. She all of sudden stopped though and Harry sense her amused curiosity. She looked around the room, settling on her discarded dress which she languidly crawled to, returning with a wooden handled duster of all things.

She quickly held it beside his erect length before he could protest and then gasped before happily laughing, "It is bigger! Ohhh, my Ser Wizard you are so accommodating to your poor servant girl to provide her with such an instrument of pleasure. And to make it bigger for her just as her poor cunny had tightened up to virginal status. Mmmmm...I cannot wait until you've reshaped me to be your tight little sheath for such an impressive sword..." she would likely have continued to gush in giddy anticipation if Harry had not been further spurred on by her realization.

With a quick kiss on the lips he quieted her rambling then gently led her mouth back to his aching member. Happy to obliged, Kara place a few more licks before surprising Harry be taking his member into her mouth all the way to her hand that had resumed its stroking of the base of his now ten inch cock. He could feel her suck and swirl her tongue around the bottom and sides of the shaft before pulling her succulent lips along his skin to the bulbous head. Pulling back further made a popping sound that had them both chuckle before Kara resumed her ministrations.

A few minutes into this oral stimulation, Harry couldn't hold back his bucking hips and Kara looked up at him with question in her eyes as she had gagged as his tip hit the back of her throat.

"Kara, can I try something with you. It's something those twins did that's pretty similar to what we're doing now, but it'll definitely make me cum very quickly?"

"You know me Harry, I'm always willing to try new things. In fact, there is something very special I want to try if you can lick me like Jocelyn did. If you're very good you can do to me something Jocelyn had me do to her that is very naughty. Now what should I do with my mouth?"

"I want you to stroke my dick with your mouth as if it were a vagina. Go as deep as you can and your hand can make up the difference. You'll bob your head and I'll hold your beautiful hair and guide the rhythm. Okay?" he looked at her, concerned he was asking too much. But Kara dove right back onto his cock until his tip cause her to gag again.

Harry gripped her hair into a pony tail and guided her into a quick pace. As he got closer he began to buck and push her a little further down his cock. But rather than push away, Kara just removed her hand from his cock and placed both palms on his thighs, essentially surrendering to him. Harry heard her breathing through her nose as his cock squeltched into her throat but was too far gone to stop. After only a few moments of thrusting did he reach the point of no return. He released Kara and bellowed that he was cumming but rather than pulling back she just set his tip in her mouth and swirled her tongue around as he continued to ejaculate. Kara was taking noticeable gulps of his salty seed until the spurting stopped and she made one last popping sound as her lips left his cock head.

Harry laid back on his bed, as Kara rose and rinsed her mouth from his wash basin. But she never did spit it out. When Harry asked why, she said that it really turned her on when Jocelyn would drink her juices and she wanted to do the same thing for him. She also wanted to take in his essence but wasn't totally sure why. Harry told her he would ask the Grimoire if there were any enhancing charms they could use.

Kara snuggled up to him and they rested for a few moments before the naked lovers began kissing again and let their hands roam. Harry took the opportunity to take in her new larger breasts and lavished them with kisses and sucking. Eventual his fingers traveled to her shaved entranced and began to tease her folds. But Kara wasn't letting him stop there, not after what she had done with her mouth. So with Harry's randy consent she knelt above him and aligned her cunt with his mouth.

Harry was not shy, and began long licks as well as a few other techniques he'd seen the twins do to each other. The response was just as he hoped, with Kara grasping onto the headboard and subtly grinding her pussy into his tongue. She began to moan loudly, testing the silencing ward, and grabbed Harry's right hand. She pulled it around to her butt and leaned forward, maneuvering two fingers into her pussy where the young knight began to add thrusting digits to his oral skills. Unbeknownst to Harry, Kara began licking two fingers before manipulating her own rosebud. She very gently eased them into her anus and tried matching the thrusting Harry's fingers were doing slightly lower.

Kara still found it quite simple to reach orgasm so it wasn't long before the double fingering plus a licking tongue had her over the edge. She very happily noticed that Harry lapped away at her juices as her ejaculation released even more dampness. As Harry licked away, she stopped fingering her ass and began stroking his cock in preparation for her next surprising addition to their sex life.

When she was satisfied he was hard enough, she stood up on shaky legs and motioned for Harry to move off the bed. She then laid down with her golden locks splayed around the pillow and spread her legs wide. Harry had already gotten back on the bed and between the two outstretched stems, was quickly inside her pussy thrusting away. It felt amazing to both. His sizable cock would always win out over fingers and tongues even if they were feminine. And for him, her pussy was the most blessed place his cock could ever be. There was no comparison to the kinky twins as they were seasoned whores and had the looseness of professionals.

While Harry was more than happy to see this happy reunion continue on to completion, Kara had other ideas. Jocelyn may have started the anal play, but Kara certainly enjoyed it just as much. In the future she would request some magical accompaniment that could hopefully deal with dirty realities of this type of sex, but tonight she wanted to give Harry her last place untouched by man.

So Kara pushed back against his chest and removed his cock fully from her vagina. She then realigned her hips and thrust her legs further back to reveal her tiny little rosebud to her lover. Harry was in a bit of shock that Kara might be thinking of having him in her ass, so he made no moves as she rubbed his tip in the secretions that had trailed down from her cunt and then circled his cock tip around her anus.

She stroked him as she tried to get her asshole to loosen up enough for his tip to enter but splayed out as she was she couldn't get the thrust. Harry shook himself from his stupor and removed her hand before place himself at her entrance. With him pushing and her focusing on relaxing her asshole they finally got the tip in. Kara cried out in a hiss, as his girth that had so impressed her before was now literally biting her in the ass.

Harry was all for stopping at her painfully cry, but Kara new that at first it would burn, just like when Jocelyn added the second and third fingers but then it would start to feel oh so wonderful. So over the course of a few minutes, with plenty of winces from Kara and "Oh my god you're so tight", from Harry, his massive member was finally lodged all the way in her ass. But the burning hadn't gone away yet. So she pulled his head down and they made out with him throbbing away with his pulse in her asshole.

Finally she relaxed around his cock and Kara assured him that she wanted him to bang her ass like a drum. She followed this by reaching out and grasping her spread ankles and pulling herself wider open. Harry started thrusting slowly in the strangely slippery yet extremely warm and tight asshole as Kara began to moan loudly in pleasure. The green-eyed wizard felt so amazing that he instinctually picked up the pace of his thrusting. It felt amazing, especially the way her two rings struggled to hold him in as he pulled out. Kara, knowing with some pride that her ass would get her man off in record time, released her ankles and began frantically frigging her clit as her legs slid up onto Harry's shoulders with her delectably cute toes curling up in ecstasy.

Harry had a massive orgasm soon after, emptying a load of impressive size up his lover's butt, and slumping over her still lodge in her backside. Kara's frenzied rubbing shortly bore results and she had a great orgasm that had Harry starting to stiffen up again in her ass as it spasmed around him. But Kara needed a break and so quickly pulled him out, gasping at the empty feeling of not having that massive cock in her, filling her up. They both did a quick wash with soap and cloths and then put on sleep wear and climbed back into a recently charmed dry bed.

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They were both very happy to be back together even if there was the minor disappointment of Kara relating her break up with Septa Jocelyn since the young lesbian nun had absolutely no interest in men and wouldn't continue to date Kara if she got back together with her boyfriend. They both fell asleep shortly after with blissful smiles on their faces as they were finally back together at long last.

HP & aSoIaF

The next day while the Arryn men-at-arms enjoyed the hospitality of Waynwood Keep and Willum was put through his paces by the Master of Arms, Harry first spent time with his foster-brothers and the Waynwood Maester relating all he could remember of his trip. He had learned much about supplying and moving a military force. He also observed many new battle plans, encampment fortifications, discipline styles, and even a few underhanded tactics that may someday be useful. He spent the afternoon with his tenant commoners arranging for them to set aside some land to begin his potions garden. He lowered the rents to recompense them for the project with promises of profit sharing if he was able to sell any of the finished product. Though that was years down the line as he expected the next few harvests to be small and used to restock his personal supply of potions.

The following day he set out with all his possessions, his squire, Kara as his personal servant to many winks from his foster brothers, his Arryn escort as well as twenty Waynwood men-at-arms accompanying Ser Morton and Ser Wallace. He had taken everything because it was likely he would be directed to marry a Vale Lady or maiden during his time at the Eyrie. If not, he would be expected to travel abroad seeking potential alliances beyond the Vale. It might be a long time before he would return to Ironoaks.