"We need to get to the Wall." Arya explained to myself, Sansa and James as we met in the Great Hall the next morning after Sansa had her meeting with Gendry about his lineage and where he stood with us. I thought for a mere second that she was not going to let him be a part of this place anymore because of the fact that he was a Bastard, but I was far from being wrong. Something inside of her changed since I saw her last, mainly because she was once a while and once filled with hope of glittering future and a hope for having a perfect life. She knew, that was far from being true, I could see it in her eyes and how she controlled herself, she was ready to take on whatever was in front of her.

Since the conversation the night before, I was still reeling from the notion of Gendry becoming a Lord only to marry me. It seemed too much for him, having me feel more like a burden to him because of what he had to go through in order to be with me. If it was me, he wouldn't have to do anything, his love was enough for me. But I knew that was no the case in this real world with this real situation. No, he had to be a Lord, someone with a name and with blood in order to even have one sense of thought to be near me. Sansa saw that, and she was willing for him to got through that change in order for me to be happy and content. I never gave her that much credit. I wish I had, and I now I know for the future. But Gendry wanted to marry me? Why me? Why now? Did he sense something was coming, something that could separate us for good? The War? I had no idea, but I didn't want to know.

"Jon should still be there." James said aloud, pointing on the map where the Wall was and having me look as well, "I have heard nothing serious that would drive the Night Watch away from the Wall, all except for the Wildings."

"Wildings?" I asked him in wonder and in fear.

"Nothing to be concerned about, Milday." James reassured me, then looking back at the map, "If we not only find your brother, than we can also get some more men on our side if there is a war coming."

"Will the Black Watch leave the Wall for us?" Sansa asked aloud from her spot on my left.

"It will be a good effort to convince them to leave their post, since they are sworn to stay at the Wall all of their lives in order to protect the realm from those beyond the Wall." James explained to her.

"Jon must convince them then!" Arya said in a triumphant tone, but I then pointed back to the map with a fair finger.

"We still need to find Bran and Rickon." I said to them aloud, all eyes back to me then, "We need to get word out to others around us, other villages and fortresses that are still standing, to see if the have heard anything from either one of them or know here they went."

"Do they know what they look like Milday?" James asked in wonder.

"No, but their direwolves will give them away." Arya replied back to him, having me nod in agreement when I knew Bran and Summer and Rickon had Shaggydog.

"We'll send ravens out to the local villages and make sure they know who to look for." Sansa explained to me in reassurance, having me smile at her and nod back in return. The three of us Stark girls needed our brothers back together and safe, since we already lost one to the hands of the Frey family and we weren't willing to loose the last two.

"We still have one more thing to be mindful of, MIldaies." James said to the three of us, having our eyes be on him now as he traced his finger down to the South end of the map of Westeros, landing on King's Landing, having my stomach churn from the very thought and sight of that place.

"Cersei by this time knows you're alive." James said, looking at me, "This is opening a window for her to come up here in the North with more assassins and more people to try and kill you three. She will now rest until all of the Stark House is obliterated."

"She won't leave her son there." Sansa said to us aloud in her low tone, "Her youngest son is the King, Tommen. She's not going to leave him there alone in the South, she has him wrapped around her finger tightly."

"So she'll send assassins to try and kill Nora?" Arya asked aloud in a hint of annoyance and anger.

"Aye, and at this point she only knows about Nora." James informed her.

"She has no idea about Sansa and even if Arya is still alive." I added to him, having me think to myself about the satiation at hand. If she found out about Arya and Sansa, then they woo will be killed within a instant and that pained me. No, they had to be a secret, they had to stay hidden. It made me look over at Sansa, whom was looking at the map with a solemn look on her face. Cersei hurt her far too many times, trying to force her into a marriage with her son, making her more of a Southerner than a Notherner, it was painful to think. She was not going to do that to her again, not while I was with her as her elder sister.

"Let her know about me." I said aloud, having the other freeze and look at me with shock in their eyes.

"What are you saying Nora?" Arya asked aloud in confusion and a hint of fear.

"I want her to know that she has failed to try and kill for the past 17 years, and that I am not going to be killed by her." I explained to her in a deadly tone, having me feel more hate to the Queen Regiment more and more as I thought about it.

"You're willing to place your neck on the line, for her to know that you're alive?" James asked aloud in wonder and a hint of anger in his tone. He hated that thought, since I was now going to be at risk even more and that I was risking my life.

"We need to get her out of that prison in the South." I said aloud, taking out the dagger on my hip, the same dagger Gendry sharpened and gave me on my name day so long ago, as I placed the tip on King's Landing on the map, slowly dragging it North and to Winterfell.

"Get her to the North, in our territory." I explained, placing my dagger on the Winterfell icon of the map, stabbing it there and hearing the metal hit the wood of the table. I wanted to make sure that Cersei was no longer safe, since she wanted the same for me. She tole my mother and father, my twin, and almost my sister if my sister wasn't careful enough. But she was no loner going to take them away from me, not while I still had breath. I gazed my eyes over to the Wall on the map, knowing our next task.

Find Jon Snow. Find my half brother.

Sansa and I stayed at Winterfell while Arya and James rode off to find Jon at the Wall, stopping at villages and other fortresses along the way to spread the news of Bran and Rickon. Brennon was still at Thedra Ascent, where more and more people were coming to find a place to call home and more wounded soldiers needed a place to heal. I rode over with Gendry and Koda at our side as Sansa stayed in Winterfell with Astrid there to protect her, giving Gendry and I three days at Thedra Ascent in order to help those who needed it and wanted to find a sense of belonging and home. I saw how big Thedra Ascent was getting, the mass amount of people and seeing them go at their jobs. It was as if Thedra Ascent was never abandoned at all, it was still standing as it was when I left many moons ago. I was quite proud of Brennon, he was making it just as great as it was before, if not greater. When Gendry and I rode in with our banner men, the people of Thedra Ascent stopped their work and bowed to us when we past them, giving me the wary feeling of high royalty and high blood. Not that I didn't experience it before, but this made it even more of a reality, since they were doing the same with Gendry as well as I. We both were looked at as heroes, when we didn't do anything, not yet in my eyes as least.

Those three days we helped with what we could. I went to those who were injured and helped with medicine and mending armor and clothes as Gendry was helping with the heavy lifting and the shifting of things around for Brennon. I had a obligation to help with Thedra Ascent, since it was my first home since i was infant and I knew these walls better than any other place in WEsteros. Koda stayed with me, though he would whine when Gendry would leave his side. However, he was a sight for the children who were now living in Thedra Ascent, both children with parents and orphans. I felt bad for the orphans, for I thought I was a orphan at one time. But they were enraptured with Koda, whom would sit politely with his tongue out as the children would pet him and nuzzle into him. I watched with a smirk on my face as he was being climbed all over by the children.

"He's so big!" one boy declared as he was climbing up Koda's back, whom was too occupied with the 5 year old girl in front of him and was licking her face clean, having me hear her squeal in delight.

"He's kissing me!" She said in glee as I laughed from my spot against the wall, watching the other children love on him. Koda just drank it all in, his tongue to the side and hanging out of his mouth, his smile was big and his eyes were warm. It had me wonder for a moment, A good solid moment, that my own child could do the same with Koda. My child with Gendry.

What a sweet thought.

I got to chat with Brennon most of the time while we were there in the fortress, having me hear the report on how things were going and more and more men were coming to be part of the guard at Thedra Ascent. Brennon was teaching them how to fight, using fake swords at first and then, thanks to the help of one man who was a Smithy and knew how to make swords, got them real swords and got them prepared for war just like knights. All the worry I had for him melted away as he was telling me these things, giving me more reassurance that my decision for him to rule in my stead was a good one.

"More men are rallying for the North, more than I thought would." He explained to me as we sat together in the courtyard. It was our last day of out visit before we would return to Winterfell and back to Sansa, hoping to get word of Arya and James and also of Jon. Koda was trailing Gendry, who at that moment was helping the Smithy with some pointers so he can do it on his own without our help.

"Some of them were from the Brotherhood Without Banners, one of them remembered you: Anguy and his master Thoros." I looked at him in shock as he said this. Who knew that those two remembered me after all this time, and that they were willing to help me even though they were their own people and they had their own life.

"Why do they want to help?" I asked aloud in wonder and confusion, since it still had no sense to me. Brennon smiled from his spot, polishing his sword as we were having our conversation.

"Clearly they remember you and they wish to help you in your task at hand. It's still shocking to me at least to know that the Brotherhood Without Banners wants to rally with the North." He explained to me in his low husky tone. I nodded in agreement as I watched Gendry from my spot with the Smithy. It brought up the memory of Gendry and I fighting, over the fact that he wanted to leave Arya and I for them. Yet they were going to fight for us, for me.

Gendry and I made it back to Winterfell, just in time to hear that some of the villagers were sending messengers to tell us what they have heard of Bran and Rickon. Sansa was already handling the situation with ease, sitting at the Great Hall with Astrid by her side and hearing each messenger and gathering more information. I sat in as well, hearing that some of them saw drewolves with humans walking about here and there. The last messenger told us of two people with a black direwolf, one was a female and the other was a young boy with sandy blond and red hair, clutching to the black direwolf for dear life.

"Rickon." I said aloud as the messenger informed us that they were last seen four moons ago, traveling by foot to the East and up a bit North, having no indication as to where they were. It made me more frustrated, since Rickon was my youngest brother and he was still a bot, traveling with a woman and Shaggy Dog. It made me worry in fear that he was going to be hurt, if not now then in the future. That night, after telling Gendry about where they saw Rickon last and the thought that he was still alive, Gendry only hugged me to both calm me down and to bring my mind back at ease. He knew that I was getting more and more stressed with all that was happening, and he had been nothing but kind to me when it came to helping me and making me sane.

"You'll find him." He said to me in his hushed tone, kissing my head in a loving manner and rubbing my head with his knuckles, having me rest against him and hear him hum a familiar tune. I grinned, knowing that tune that he was humming and finding it amusing that he was singing that to me in order to make me feel better.

"Since when do you know that song?" I asked him aloud in wonder as he hummed it some more, the same song I heard months ago in the woods with him when we both were at odds with each other.

"One of the workers taught me the song when I was helping him in the forge. It reminds me of you." He said into my hair, and as he sang it some more, I thought of the words in my head as if it was yesterday.

I'll wear a gown of golden leaves, and bind my hair with grass, But you can be my forest love, and me your forest lass.

The next morning it was snowing pretty Heavily in Winterfell, having me wear a Stark cloak that was lost in the abandonment of the place, along with Sansa and we found one for Gendry, since he was just as much as a Stark as we wanted him to be. We were working out in the courtyard in the cold when we heard approaching horses, having everyone in the courtyard stop what they were doing and look to see who it was. I was prepared for anything, if it was a friend or foe, and I was hoping it was something good. But the closer they got, I saw something that made me take a step back. There were banners, but they had nothing on them at all, no pictures or no animal sigma. No, there were black flags.

Black Flags.

I was too focused on the banners that I heard barking behind me, having me look and see Nymeria trot up towards Astrid and I, Arya running behind her with Gendry as well and they were looking at Nymeria with confusion and worry. Something was up with her, something was in her brain and making her a bit concerned. Her nose was in the air, but her ears were not down, it was as if she was expecting something. I then heard another bark, but it was not from her, nor was it from Astrid, someone else….or something else.

I saw two glowing eyes, red eyes in the misty an heavy flowing of the snow, having me see and take a step back as I saw that the eyes were part of a animal…..a direwolf. Before I could say anything else, I saw the men in black in her big horses ride up to the courtyard and stop in the middle, having me watch with Gendry and Arya next to me as two of the men dismounted from their horses and landed in the pure white snow. Arya gasped next to me, having me look at her as the two men walked over to us slowly, the murmurs of the people around us were being heard as well as the winter winds and chill under our skin.

"Jon!" Arya said aloud in a gasp. I looked back in wonder and in shock as the first man walked over to us, having me think that this guy was Jon Snow, the half brother I have never had no met before, but I have heard so much about. He was the one who went to the Wall, left Winterfell and left all he knew behind in order to do some good in the world. If only I met him under better circumstances, yet he was here now for me and had received my raven, but was he going to accept me? He walked up with his pure white direwolf,which also gave it away to me that he belonged in this family of Starks and Wolves. He stood in front of me, a soft look on his face with his dark eyes and black, but there was warmth in the darkness in his eyes, warmth that shows that he was here for a reason. He looked down at me, since he was taller than me with a small smile on his face and I looked up as well, ton thinking of what to say.

"You must be my sister Nora." He said aloud in a soothing tone, something I never thought I would hear from someone who was on the Night's Watch. I smiled at him, nodding my head and curtseying on front of him.

"And you must be my brother, Jon Snow."