CHAPTER 7

~~~~~~~15mo (13mo)290AD

After about two moons passed by, Lyra was sitting in Tywin's study with her feet up reading alone. Tywin had gone into Lannisport with his brother to do some business. Suddenly, a woman with long blonde hair came in and slammed the door, locking it. She spun around and was looking at her with a hate filled face like she was sucking on a lemon.

The woman said arrogantly, "Do you know who I am?"

Lyra sat up casually and put the book down on the sofa with a bookmark in it. She said, "No, not particularly."

The woman spat, "I am your queen, Queen Cersei Baratheon. I am the queen of the Seven Kingdoms."

Lyra said, "Oh… that queen. Sorry, we have never met."

Cersei was about to explode over this woman's insolence and lack of not knowing whose she was. Cersei said, "I'm sure my father had told you who I was. Don't lie to me. You knew."

Lyra said casually, "Actually he never mentioned you. He just said he had a set of twins older than Tyrion. That was all." Lyra thought, 'This arrogant bitch of a queen was the most narcissistic person I ever saw. Cersei is a bitch, no matter who played the part or who the character is, she will always remain a fucking bitch.'

Cersei shouted hatefully, flinging her arm towards the door, "I want you out of here now! Who do you think you're talking to? I can take your head if you don't leave my father alone and remove yourself from my family home immediately!"

Lyra asked looking at her innocently, "Did you clear that with him? If I'm not mistaken, he is the Lord of Casterly Rock and Warden of the Westerlands? I know, you made sure he wasn't here to make your demands on me?"

Cersei was fuming at her blatant insolence and said, "Listen here you cheap whore, remove yourself now! I bet my father even paid for all the clothes you wear." She noticed the stylish dress Lyra had on. Cersei reached back and swung her hand backwards striking Lyra, bloodying her mouth and bruising her eye and cheek with her ring scraping it.

Lyra put the back of her hand to her mouth looking at the blood on the back of her hand. She said to Cersei much too calmly, "I will give you this one, because you're Tywin's daughter. The next one you get back double." Lyra stood up looking Cersei in the eyes. Crystal was behind Cersei with a very loud low angry growl. Cersei's eyes got big and she looked behind herself. Lyra hand signaled to stay before Cersei looked back.

Cersei said, "W… What is that dangerous animal doing in my father's castle?"

Lyra said, "Wanting to protect me from you. A lioness protecting me from a lioness."

There was violent banging on the door. It was Tywin and Kevan shouting for Cersei to open the door now. Cersei crept slowly watching the cat, to the door and unlocked it.

Cersei screamed like a victim, "She was going to have her wild animal kill me! I want it destroyed!"

Tywin shoved his daughter out of his way and saw Lyra's face bruised and bloody. Tywin shouted at Cersei, "What the hell did you do to her! You hit her?!"

Cersei said, "She was going to hit me first! I was defending myself! Father she's a cheap whore you are spending money on. Just be done with her! I want her out of here now! If you don't remove her I'll do it permanently! I told her to leave here immediately! She was going to sic her animal on me! I want her head for this now!"

Tywin got in her face and said in a deadly tone, "You try to take her head or even her animal and you best take your own. You dare lay a hand on her again and I will make you feel very sorry for the rest of your life by cutting off every penny. She and her cat go nowhere, until I say so! Do I make myself clear?!!! You do not live here and you will not dictate under my roof, Cersei!" Cersei had her mouth opening and closing like a fish.

Cersei shouted, "I want her dead!"

Tywin got enraged, scaring Cersei and said, "I WILL STOP YOU! GET OUT OF MY CASTLE NOW!" He pointed to the door. Cersei swept out of the room with her nose in the air.

Tywin said to Kevan, "Call the maester." Kevan left. Tywin caressed her face gently looking at the damage.

Tywin said looking her over, "I'm so sorry, Lyra." She sat down on the sofa.

Lyra said, "It's not your fault, Tywin. She is a violent and hateful woman. Didn't she just have a child not long ago? Why is she not with her child instead of interfering in your life? I'm glad you got here when you did. I was going to have to harm her if she touched me again and who knows where that could lead. I would never let Crystal touch her or anyone. But she will die if my cat is harmed for nothing but her whim. I would do it myself before I would let my cat hurt anyone, unless she had a good reason to fight with me. She was very angry and I made Crystal back off." She reached out to Crystal and she climbed on the sofa between them and across Lyra's lap. She started giggling.

She said looking at Tywin, "She still thinks she is little. She was worried because she knew Cersei hurt me." She hugged her big cat. The maester came into the room. Lyra had Crystal get down so the maester could look at her face.

The maester said, "A cool cloth on your face will help with the swelling. The lip needs to be washed but will heal on its own. It doesn't look like anything is broken or permanent." Tywin got a servant to get a cool bowl of water and a cloth. The maester left and the servant returned with the water and cloth.

Tywin sat the bowl on the floor and wrung out the cloth gently dobbing at her bleeding lip, cleaning away the dry blood. Her lip was swelling up as well as her cheek and eye. He wrung out the cloth again and put it to the side of her face that was damaged.

Tywin said gently, "Lay down. Let me take care of you, Lyra, my dear. It's my turn." She laid down and he was putting the cloth on her face and caressing her forehead with his thumb with his hand on top of her head.

He said, "I hate seeing you hurt. Cersei has made me so angry to hurt such a kind woman that I care for. She wanted to drive you away from jealousy. I haven't had a woman in my life for twenty years since my wife died."

Lyra said softly, "It must have been terribly lonely and devastating for you Tywin. You're still so very handsome, virile and healthy. You deserve to have the need of someone else to care for you and fill such a void. You are so much more than to have to be alone for the rest of your life. Your daughter is selfish to deny you a companion." She reached up and caressed his face. He bent over and feather-lightly kissed her lips. She looked into his eyes, still caressing his face.

Lyra said softly, "I care for you, Tywin, but I will harm her if she ever tries to harm me again."

He said, "And I care for you, my beauty. I know. She has stepped over the line." He rinsed and wrung out the cloth, reapplying it.

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Cersei was raging because she had to get rid of that woman in Casterly Rock before her father married her or got her pregnant. She went to Ser Gregor Clegane and made a deal. She was going to pay him a large amount of dragons to get rid of that woman Lyra Wyldwood immediately. She told him the sooner the better. He agreed to the deal and she told him to send her confirmation when the deed was done to King's Landing. Cersei took her entourage of soldiers and guards back to King's Landing.

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Lyra was walking Crystal on the beach one day in her men's clothes with two Lannister guards following. She had her knife and dagger on all the time somewhere on her person since Cersei's visit a few days ago.

As she was walking in the sand, she saw Ser Gregor Clegane, Polliver and two other knights coming towards her on the beach. She felt the animosity coming from them. Lyra whispered, "I wish if these four men walking towards me mean to kill me for Cersei right now, I want them to fall on their asses together right now." All four men fell.

Lyra whispered, "I wish every one of them to hemorrhage and die now." They all lay dying as they screamed, including The Mountain. The two guards ran over and looked at them on the ground as their eyes, noses, ears and mouths were oozing lots of blood.

The one guard said they would take her back to the castle and get help while the other stayed. They hurried back as Lyra thought that Tywin would lose his killing machine now.

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Three days later, Tywin sat with her in the study and asked, "Did you have those men killed, Lyra?"

Lyra said, "Cersei set them on me to kill me."

Tywin asked, sitting back looking at her intensely and asked, "How do you know that?"

Lyra said, "Because they wouldn't have died."

Tywin cocked his head a bit and demanded, "What does that mean, explain yourself?"

Lyra sighed and said, "I saw them coming at me with a feeling of animosity. I had a dream that Cersei told Ser Gregor Clegane that she would pay him ten thousand dragons if he would kill me immediately. I looked at Ser Gregor and the three others and said, 'If the gods willed it, kill these men if they intend to kill me on Cersei's order.' They all four fell down and when the guard walked over there and saw blood coming from everywhere on their heads."

Tywin's eyes widened and he stared at her unmoving. He asked, "Are you saying you have magic?"

Lyra looked him in the eyes and said, "I'm saying I asked and it happened is all." She huffed and said, "Tywin, I told you I was more dangerous than you or my cat. You chose to think I was kidding. I do not harm people unless they want to harm me."

After a long silence, Tywin said slowly, "Perhaps…."

Lyra felt it. He was afraid of her now. She stood up and said, "Yes, I suppose it is time to go. I'll pack my things. You can keep the dresses in case you have room for another lady friend in the future." Lyra turned and left out of the study with Crystal slow enough to know he wasn't stopping her.

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Three days later, she and all her own belongings, money, her servants and cook and their belongings were taken to her ship still in Lannisport. She hired back as many sellswords that were in her original men and hired some more. They took three days more to outfit and get provisions stocked up on the ship. It gave Tywin plenty of time to change his mind.

Before she left the docks, Lyra wished for Cersei to have an accidental overdose of Nightshade administered by Maester Pycelle in the Red Keep. They sailed away to White Harbor which was a three month trip stopping for provisions along the way. Lyra was heartbroken. She couldn't figure out if he wanted her to leave because he was afraid of her, afraid of what she would do to his daughter or afraid for her because Cersei wouldn't stop until she was gone one way or another. Either way he didn't want her around anymore.

~~~~~~~~1 1/2yr(15.5mo)

It took the whole three months to get over Tywin turning her away from fear of her. She just sighed a lot after she cried it out. Now she shrugs and will move on. On the ports they stopped in, a tragic story of Queen Cersei Baratheon having been overdosed on Nightshade by Maester Pycelle, who was put to death by King Robert Baratheon. She stayed in White Harbor for a month and then went to Gulltown for two weeks not being there before.

After docking in Gulltown, the customs inspectors came to her ship demanding she pay exorbitant fees, Lyra told them she refused to pay them outrageous prices for blackberries from White Harbor. They went to get the Chief Inspector.

Petyr Baelish came to her dock and said, "I am Chief Inspector Petyr Baelish. My inspector said that you are refusing to pay the customs fees for your cargo." She was looking at a twenty six to twenty seven year old Petyr Baelish aka Littlefinger.

Lyra had her hood up and said in a low voice, "Why is there a customs fee triple the amount from White Harbor for a domestic product from the same area and for that matter the same country?"

Baelish said placatingly, "The prices haven't changed here. We are trying to keep them down but can't if everyone doesn't pay their fair share."

Lyra said, "You price gouging to look good to the Warden of the Vale."

Baelish said, "Perhaps if we overlooked it just for tonight." He leaned down and looked under her hood and continued, "You would have dinner with me and we can discuss it over a good meal together, Lady?" She knew he would try to waive a fee for sex.

She said, "Wyldwood."

He said, lighting up in a creepy way and trying to have a smooth voice, "Oh, from Storms End. That explains the maelstrom on your sail." Lyra shrugged.

He said, "I'll come for you at dusk, Lady Wyldwood?" She really didn't want to get this close to the man, but it would let her wish on him to waive the fee. He needed to go also like Gregor Clegane, Cersei, Karl Tanner, Rast, Allister Thorne, Ramsay Bolton, Roose Bolton, Petyr Baelish, Walder Frey, Viserys Targaryen, The High Sparrow, Craster, Locke, Meryn Trant, Ilyn Payne, Maester Pycelle, Styr, The Tickler, and Joffrey Baratheon.

Gregor Clegane, Polliver, Cersei and Maester Pycelle were gone already.

Lyra was dressed still in black leather men's pants, boots and belt. She only changed to just a black peasant blouse and an outside black corset with a black leather vest over it. She was in all black because she felt that way. Baelish showed up at her gangway and she went walking up to him with her lion on a leash.

Baelish said, "You have to bring your lion?"

Lyra said, "She always goes where I go. She will not attack anyone unless they harm me." Baelish looked at the 190 pound animal wondering if the cat really would.

Baelish took her to a tavern and they sat at a table. He asked, "What does your lion eat?"

Lyra said, "I already fed her, but she will ask for a sample of my food. She eats raw roasts, cooked meat to get the salt out or her favorite fish. We have fishing nets onboard that catch plenty for us and her."

Baelish said, "I see. Tonight they serve a very good beef steak dinner." The serving wench came up and asked what they wanted. They ordered and Lyra got a red wine and so did Baelish.

He said, "Maybe you could come back to my room after dinner so we could talk? I have a bottle of a good Dornish Red wine."

Lyra said stoically, "We'll see."

He said, "How long have you been a mechant?"

She said, "A year and a half."

Baelish said, "You're very taciturn in your answers."

She said, "I suppose I am. I sail over two continents. It's safer to be taciturn."

Baelish said, "I understand. You don't have to be so on guard with me." She thought, 'Yeah, right. You can't bullshit the bullshitter, Littlefinger.' He actually tried to reach out to take her hand, but Lyra pulled it under the table.

She said, "Is that so? Well, by tripling the customs fee isn't very honest to make anyone not be on guard." He went to say something, but Lyra interrupted him and said, "I wish you would tell me the truth about why the custom fees are tripled here in Gulltown and why you wanted to take me to your rooms, Chief Inspector Petyr Baelish?"

Littlefinger started struggling and sputtering, "I… I was t… told that I c…could set the f… fees. Any more was a s…success to my ca… career. I… I tripled them to increase m… my wealth. I wanted to have s…sex with you and then c… charge you still in the m… morning." He gasped and put his hand over his mouth with wide eyes.

Lyra said, acting surprised, "Shame on you, Chief Inspector Petyr Baelish. You have been a very bad man." Lyra stood up as the food arrived she dumped both plates in his lap and then her wine on his head. Lyra and Crystal left the tavern and went back to the ship.

She wrote a message to Jon Arryn Warden of the Vale by raven and said:

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Dear Lord Arryn, Warden of the Vale and Hand of the King,

The customs fees in Gulltown have been tripled by your Chief Inspector Petyr Baelish. He told me himself that he is keeping one third and trying to impress you by the doubled amount, which looks like more revenue when you are losing more merchants and cargo. If you look into the merchants you will see it is true because there will be a drop in fees only making it up in double amounts. Baelish is pocketing the rest for himself. He also is extorting sex for customs fee waving, but said he would have charged me anyway the next day. He tried to do that to me. I had to drag it out of him to find this out and if you are told differently it would be a lie.

Your friend,

Lady Lyra Wyldwood

of the ship, 'The Wyldwynd'

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Lyra made a wish that when Jon Arryn investigated Baelish that he would find 24,590 gold dragons under Baelish's bed in bags and he would be put to death for stealing from the money for taxes to the crown from the Vale. Another off the list 5 out of 21 evil people.

She told her captain to head to Braavos if they had enough provisions and water. Her captain stocked the ship while they were waiting. He called the crew and they left for Braavos to see if she could sell the berries there instead. Lyra went down to the hold and got a huge bowl of berries and took them to her cabin to eat and told the captain to have the men eat one box at a time on the way.