CHAPTER 19
280 AC
"Sweet heart, are you okay? I don't understand, why does those nobles bullying you?"
I start acting like a innocent child and say " I really don't know, they keep bullying me." Then I act like a remembered something then said "ohh, maybe because I beat the living daylight out of them."
She gets shocked for a second then with a stern face says "Sweet heart you should never say something like that out load. That is not smart. I know you are angry and you have the right to be angry but you can't talk or act like that, you need to suck it up and live your life. Smallfolk like us can stand tall in front of nobles. They have the all the power if they can't hurt you they will attack others around you."
She comes next to me and messes my hair then says " Please never do something like that, never stand up to them. You have to respect them even if you don't want to. Please don't do anything dangerous. I promised your mother I will look after you so I will." She then puts the tray she is carrying in front of me after that kisses me on the cheek.
"You must be doing something right at least, if the lord is looking after you like this. I will take the tray when I come back for the dinner. Bye" she messes my hair again then leaves the room.
"hmph, is the how he looks after me, stale bread and water." I bit down on the bread then I feel something juicy and chewy. then the flavor hits me. It has meat in it. I turn it over and look inside my bite then reap it apart. There is a good chunk of meat inside. "ohh, she meant this by he is looking after." At least he has some conscience.
(after one month)
In this one month I worked on my mana the most and gotten 2 more mana I think I m starting to get more mana because I have 2 familiars now. I tested out about somethings. I m not able to bound with more creatures but I can dominate animals. It is not like being bounded. I can't see with their eyes, I can't give remote orders, I can't feel where they are if they are around 100 meters away from me and they will get free if I don't dominate them after a week or so. They can understand basic orders like attack, follow, retreat etc. but I can't understand them. but the ravens and crows are exceptions I think they are as smart as 2 to 4 years old child in some aspects. For example, crows understand analogies, can exercise self-control, can fashion tools and like to play—all signs of what we call "intelligence."
Because of that they can answer my short and simple questions with a nod and I can use them to follow people because they can recognize people's faces. Now both Poe and Erebus have a murder of crows and ravens consistent of 15 to 20 birds. Technically it should be called an unkindness since most of them are raven but I like murder of crows and raven more than an unkindness of raven and crow. People started to think it is an ominous omen that this many crows and ravens flock around the buildings. They thing this is a sign there is going to be a ironmen or a wildling raid in short time. In the old gods religion they don't believe the ravens are ominous creatures but they still believed to be omen because they are carrion birds. The Faith of the Seven, the first raven is said to have been let into the world when the Crone peered through the door of death and some priests of the Iron Islands believe that ravens are servants of the Storm God. In short people in this continent are a bit obsessed with ravens. The ravens are the best communication tools too. Maester Luwin is responsible of the communication between the lords and I can't dominate his ravens, don't know why.
I have been using all those ravens and crows for hunting small game. Even though lord lets me eat meat in secret but 2 meal a day is not enough for me because I train all day inside my room. I get hungry really fast so I sent the birds then at night they bring back the prey. I warged in to Erebus and stole a knife from the kitchen then made the other birds bring me dry woods from the Godswood. After that when I enter the training space I would lit a small fire and cook the meat. It is really bland but it is better than hunger. I don't know why I don't get carbon poisoning inside the space. First I was afraid of it and did a little experiment to see if I will get light headed inside but I never did. After that I got out and did the same in the room and breathed in the smoke I did get light headed so I m not resistant to carbon poisoning.
Because I didn't use my mana training on elements I think I hit a bottleneck with them. I used all my mana on warging. I learned this word from the Stark children's nanny Old Nan. When I need to spent my mana I would warg to Poe or Erebus and fly sometimes I would go to keep and listen to her tell stories. She tells a lot of story about age of heroes, magic and magical creatures to Robb, Jon and Sansa.
Sansa is Robb's little sister she is 4 years old, before I got punished I had talked and played with her sometimes. She is a really cute and obedient little girl, she will not do something if Lady Catelyn forbids it. One time she was playing with us in a game of tag and she would always get busted because she wouldn't run. I asked her why wouldn't she run, she told me while holding her head high "A lady never runs." She was so cute, that day I hold myself so hard not the pinch her little chubby cheeks.