Chapter 13: Evil? (3/3)
Raziel Baratheon:
The smoke from the burning keep was spreading around Gulltown, to the point of blocking the view of the streets. Only made it worse by the darkness surrounding them, but Raziel was never really afraid of the dark.
"My Prince, forgive my insistence but..." Lady Bau has requested that three guards accompany the Prince to retrieve her husband. Raziel had no problem with it but... "I think it would be wise that you return to Lord Arryn's residence and allow us to retrieve him." The guard was a young man that was relatively scrawny, but he had a decent suit of armor that made his body look broader.
"Your insistence is noted but considering that we are almost there, I don't really see the point of turning back now." Raziel pointed out the obvious fact to the guard.
They were just a corner away from reaching Petyr Baelish's store of smuggled goods. Even if Lord Arryn wasn't there, there was a high chance of them encountering Lord Baelish, since by the looks of it, he was actually taking residence there for the time being. Each step he took, Raziel couldn't help but wonder. Strange, first Lord Grafton participates in a scheme to allow smuggling from Essos to occur freely in Gulltown, then he contracts an illness that spreads around the town not long before Jon has discovered what was happening and now Petyr Baelish just happens to own a store that sells precisely what was being smuggled but in a way that doesn't attract attention... Especially with the prospect of an epidemic taking over Gulltown, which practically took the attention away from the smuggling scheme for now. All of those factors and details came into Raziel's mind. Now that I think of it... What would Petyr Baelish even gain by helping Jon in discovering Lord Grafton's crimes? That wasn't a question. Control over the smuggling goods with the front of a store that sells the goods in a lawful manner.
Raziel sighed, because there is a high possibility of that being that case. With Petyr Baelish practically manipulating Jon into exposing his crimes in order to get the profits from Lord Grafton's scheme for himself. Smart... Very smart... The Prince was actually impressed.
I could tell Jon about this... But... Rare items from Essos are quite difficult to acquire at times. The Prince smirked as he and the guards actually reached the store. However, while standing at the entrance, he realized that there was something strange about the place. Last time he was there, the entrance was clean and well kept, but now there was a lot of dirt around and there was some visible damage. Did something happen?
Moving his head to look around, Raziel realized that the whole place looked worse than the last time he was there, which makes him wonder what happened. Due to the darkness and the smoke, the Prince couldn't properly see the area, so he couldn't tell whether there was any sign of battle or something.
"Stay on your guards." Raziel ordered the guards, because he had a bad feeling. "Give me that." The Prince ordered one of the guards to hand him his crossbow. He only had a dagger with him, a common and bland dagger since he left his Valyrian steel dagger back at the Eyrie.
The boy then signalled two of the guards that were behind him to enter it first. They both had halberds with them, which was a very versatile weapon.
The guards did without question, but there was a small indication that they also noticed that there was something off.
"My Prince..." The same scrawny guard that was holding a torch, tried to speak. But Raziel simply lifted his hand to tell him to stay quiet.
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After a short silence, Raziel and the guard heard a loud noise coming from inside. "AAAAHHH!" Followed by a scream.
Causing both Raziel and the guard to step away from the door. With the boy aiming his crossbow while the guard drew his longsword.
As the loud noises and unpleasant grunts of pain could be heard from the inside, both of them stepped away even more because the sounds were quite terrifying.
What is this? Raziel asked himself as the noises that were coming from inside definitely didn't belong to a person.
"Pssst... Raziel." He heard someone whispering at him.
Causing the Prince and the guard to turn around, realizing that there was someone calling them from the building behind them. "Lyro?" Raziel saw that it was Lyro Arryn , calling him from a window above them.
"Hurry, get up here." The man rushed the Prince with a visible expression of worry.
"Lord Arryn, what exactly is g-" The guard tried to ask him loudly.
"Shhhh!" Only to be shushed by him. Before widening his eyes and looking at the entrance.
Noticing that, the two of them turned around. And in a matter of seconds, they both widened their eyes in response to what was stepping out of Petyr Baelish's property. It was a giant lizard that seemed to be tattooed, with powerful hind legs and long curved claws on their hind legs. It took a few seconds for Raziel to realize that it was a Walking lizard. A species of reptiles that can be found in the unexplored southern jungles of Sothoryos, known as the Green Hell.
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"CAW!" After staring at the two for a few seconds, the Walking lizard made a sound and charged at them. With Raziel attempting to shoot at it with the crossbow, only to miss it by a few inches due to how fast it charged at them. "CAW!" The moment it closed the distance, it jumped and practically tackled the guard into the ground.
"AAAHHHHHHH!" With the poor man screaming loudly as the reptile crushed him with it's weight before it opened it's mouth widely and practically crushed his head by biting his head.
While the Walking lizard was busy with the guard, Raziel dropped the crossbow, turned around and ran as fast as his legs would allow it to get away from it. Turning around the corner as quickly as he could. "CAW!" Running even faster after hearing the sound of it coming from behind him.
WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS A WALKING LIZARD DOING IN GULLTOWN?! The Prince desperately asked himself as he continued to run as fast as he could, because it didn't make any sense. He has read in a book that they are common in the swamps of Sothoryos.
"CAW!" Despite running as fast as he could, it was obvious that he wasn't going to outrun it. So the Prince desperately searched for a way to go before it catches up to him. Thankfully, he found it in the way of an open door located on his right. Rushing towards it as quickly as he could, he passed through it and closed the door behind him.
Looking around, he realized that it was a simple bakery, due to the place being filled with bread and wheat bags.
"CAW!" The sound of the Walking lizard could be heard from outside, causing Raziel to crouch.
The Prince desperately searched around for another way out as he could hear it walking outside, obviously searching for him.
After looking around that room which was filled with low quality bread that only someone truly desperate would wanna eat. Raziel eventually caught the sight of a small window right at the opposite direction of the door.
Taking a deep breath, the boy slowly moved towards it, moving as quietly as possible. Just a little more... He was five steps away from the window.
However, the moment he took the second step, a noise was made due to him stepping on something. A piece of hard bread that was on the floor, however, the sudden surprise made him take a step back and accidentally stumble on something. "No." A baking peel that was leaning against the table filled with bad bread.
It fell on the floor before Raziel could grab it. "CAW!" Causing the Walking lizard to smash the door down right away and enter the building after hearing the noise. "CAW!" Seeing the Prince .
The boy wasted no time in standing up and running towards the small window. Barely being able to jump out of it in time as the reptile charged towards him.
Falling into the hard ground. "CAW!" As the Walking lizard sticks it's head out of the window, trying to reach him in order to bite him with it's sharp teeth. Raziel just crawled away, as it tried to reach him, but only it's head was able to fit through the window.
"CAW!" It continued to make that strange noise. Before it removed it's head from the window, turned around and ran back to the door.
Raziel could only stand up and begin to run again. Now, running down the street covered in smoke to try to find another spot to hide.
Unfortunately, after running a little more, Raziel reached the center of the port town. The same spot he arrived at when he descended from the Moondoor using the Winged Knight's device.
"Oh no..."The boy widened his blue eyes when he realized that there were people there, probably some of the few citizens of Gulltown that weren't put in the Grafton's Keep.
There were three men, two women and three children there. Two of the men were carrying heavy looking sacks, while the third man was eating something. The two women were speaking with one another and the children were playing.
"RUN!" The Prince desperately yells at the group. Who immediately moved their heads to look at the boy. "GET OUT OF HERE!"
"The hell are you running from boy?" The man eating what appeared to be an onion, asked the boy.
"CAW!" His answer came in just two seconds. "CAW!" With the Walking lizard running towards that area.
"AAAAHHH!" One of the women yelled in fear as she saw the big reptile running towards them. Immediately grabbing one of the children and running away.
"What the-" The man eating an onion was about to say something after dropping the onion on the ground due to the shock. Unfortunately, the Walking lizard attacked him as soon as Raziel ran past him. Immediately tackling him into the ground, opening it's mouth practically devouring the man's head.
"Seven hells!" The other woman grabbed the other two children in deep fear, before running into the nearest building and closing the door.
"Hey!" One of the men that was carrying a heavy sack quickly ran after her only for her to slam the door right on his face. "Open the door!" With him smashing the door with his fist and demanding that she opens it.
"CAW!" The Walking lizard ripped the poor man's head off and swallowed it. Before looking at the other man.
"Stay awa-" The other man that also dropped the heavy sack tried to get away.
"CAW!" But the Walking lizard used it's curved sharp to slash the man's face. With half of his face being slashed, with his nose, eye and practically half of his face falling on the ground.
Raziel kept on running, only sparing a single glance.
"Rose!" The last man standing was desperately bashing to door still. "OPEN THE FUCKING-"
"CAW!" But the Walking lizard bites him horizontally, lifting him off the ground with his neck now broken.
Raziel stopped when he realized that the Walking lizard just tossed the man's body away and began to smash it's head into the door.
"AAAAHHH!" The voice of a child younger than him could be heard as soon as the door was smashed down.
"Shit!" Raziel rushed towards the building as he watched the Walking lizard entering through the smashed door.
The Prince ran as quickly as he could until he reached the door. "NO! NO! GET AWAY!" A poor plump woman on her knees screamed in desperation as she hugged her two boys that were both younger than Raziel.
"CAW!" The Walking reptile opened it's mouth widely and approached them with the visible intent of eating them.
Right in front of the door, there was a large table, which the Walking lizard was walking by. So the Prince, in an act of pure impulsivity, drew the bland dagger that he brought along and charged. Climbing on top of the table and as soon as the Walking lizard moved it's head to look at him. The Prince stabbed it in it's eye. "CAW!" And it responded by swinging it's head and striking Raziel in the torso with it, causing him to fall off the table and into the hard floor.
"Ah!" A grunt of pain escaped his lips since it hit him with considerable strength. "Run!" But he was focused on saving that woman and her children. "Get out!" The Prince ordered the woman as the Walking lizard was still distracted with the damage to it's eye. The woman did as she was ordered and immediately grabbed both children and ran out of the door. Leaving the Prince behind.
"CAW! CAW! CAW! CAW!" The Walking lizard was clearly in pain as it desperately tried to get the dagger off it's eye. But it's hands were too short for it to reach.
"Mmmm..." Raziel grunted as he forced himself to stand up and quickly make his way to the door as well. However, running proved to be complicated as the blow he took to the chest was apparently worse than he expected. And to make matters worse, as soon as he made it out of the door, the disoriented reptile seemed to have noticed him and resumed it's chase despite having a dagger lunged into it's eye.
"CAW! CAW! CAW!" By the sounds that it was making, it was clearly furious now and clearly had an even bigger intent to eat Raziel.
As the boy stumbled out of the house, all he could do was try to get away from the building. "CA-" The Walking lizard tried to chase him, but it hit it's head on the side of the door frame. It's vision was apparently compromised by the dagger, and it gave him an opportunity to get away.
His chest really hurt, but he ignored the pain and pushed forward. Only being able to get away because the Walking lizard actually stumbled and fell on the ground upon stepping out the house. If I only had my bloody bow! Raziel was frustrated, because he could easily kill that beast if he had his dragonbone bow with him. If I make it through this, I'm never going anywhere without my weapons again! Though, this situation could have never been predicted and it still didn't make any sense to him. Lyro is probably hiding in that building on the opposite side of that shop, but where the bloody hell is Petyr Baelish?! Since that place belongs to him.
"CAW!" His thoughts were interrupted by that dreadful sound once again, as Raziel turned around a corner in order to get away from that area. The smoke seemed to be increasing, which was both a good and a bad thing. Good, because it meant that he had more coverage due to the beast's vision being damaged already. Bad, because Raziel's line of sight was also affected by the dense smoke. Alongside the fact that it was getting hard to breathe. "CAW!"
Raziel continued to move forward in an empty and dark street that he remembered visiting a few days ago. The reason why that came to mind was due to him passing by a spot that could have something he could use against the Walking lizard. "CAW!" That was coming his way.
There! After running for a bit, Raziel was able to reach what the spot he wanted. A blacksmith's shop where he remembered passing by while he was strolling around Gulltown with Lady Bau. The shop didn't seem to be locked up, making Raziel wonder if the Blacksmith was forced to go to the Grafton's Keep, since most of the places that were left wide open are most likely from people who were forced to leave it like that by the guards.
Whatever it was, he couldn't complain. So he rushed towards the blacksmith's shop as the sounds of the reptile that was chasing him grew louder. Upon entrance, a smile appeared on the Prince's face, because the shop was filled with weapons that he could use. "CAW!" As the noise indicated that it was close, Raziel quickly searched for a weapon to use. He saw several of them hanging on the wall or inside of a barrel next to the furnace. But as the boy approached it to grab one, he accidentally ended up bumping into something that was right next to the furnace.
It was a bucket that was filled with oil, probably for quenching the hot iron of the weapons.
Seeing that, gave him an idea. "CAW!" Which he was forced to put into action since the Walking lizard was about to reach him. So the boy grabbed the bucket filled with oil alongside a weapon. A halberd, a heavy, cleaver-like blade at the top of a long shaft. Before he made his way to a table where most of the tools that a blacksmith would use were located. Climbing on top of it, he held the bucket with both hands and awaited.
"COME ON!" Calling it out to come at him.
"CAW!" Which it did, smashing through the door like the wild beast that it was. "CAW!" And Raziel responded by tossing all of the oil that was inside of the bucket into it. Covering the Walking lizard with oil. "CAW!"
The Prince held the halberd with both hands and jumped off the table in the opposite direction. "CAW!" And the Walking lizard attempted to charge, only to stumble in the Blacksmith's anvil. Giving him the chance of running out of the blacksmith's shop with the halberd at hand.
"Mmmm..." Raziel grunted as the pain in his torso continued to bother him, but he did his best to ignore it for now. Getting as far away from the blacksmith's shop as he could, the Prince began to formulate a strategy to fight that thing. With only one eye, it can't tell the distance properly. And it's covered in oil, meaning that a single spark is all I need to set it on fire.
"CAW!" The Walking lizard covered in oil finally left the blacksmith's shop. Keep my distance and move around as much as I can. "CAW!" It immediately charged towards him one more time, with the Prince standing still, until it got close enough and the Prince sidestepped to the left, right on the side of the damaged eye, while simultaneously thrusting the halberd. "CAW!" Managing to stab it's arm with the tip of the halberd.
Pulling the tip off and stepping back. The Walking lizard attempted to turn towards his direction, only for the Prince to swing the blade into it's face. "CAW!" Slicing it's mandible with the blade. However, it actually spinned around and ended up hitting Raziel with it's tail.
"AH!" Knocking the boy into the ground and making drop the halberd. "Mmmm!" Raziel grunted in pain as it hit his arm hard.
"CAW!" Noticing that the Prince had fallen, the Walking lizard attempted to jump on him. However, instead of landing on top of him, it ended up colliding with a nearby wall that was right behind the Prince.
"Mmm!" The Prince used the wall to support himself and stand up, he didn't even notice the wall because the area was covered in smoke. Having no choice, the Prince ran away again while holding his arm in pain.
"CAW!" The head blow stunted for a bit, but it recovered its senses after a bit and continued it's chase for the Prince.
The density of the smoke seemed to be getting worse, making him wonder if the fire that was consuming the Grafton's Keep was some kind of Wildfire, but it was unlikely otherwise the distinctive green flames would be visible.
"CAW!" The Prince desperately tried to get away, but he was much slower now due to the blow he got to his arm. I don't think my arm is broken but it really hurts. "CAW!" As it chased him some more, Raziel reached another door as he used the wall to guide himself through that dense smoke. Opening it and entering right away, the Prince came across a very foul smell as he closed the door behind him..
"Eh..." Being forced to pinch his nose due to how strong the smell was. What the hell is- He wondered for a second what that smell was, until he got his answer. The smell was coming from a corpse that was sitting on top of a wooden table a dozen steps away from the door. It was the dead body of a man who was clearly suffering from the illness that killed Gerold Grafton. It was obvious due to the fact that the skin of his left cheek was gone and his nose seemed to have fallen off. His clothes were drenched in blood and his right hand was completely skinless. By the looks of it, he hasn't been dead for long.
"CAW!" The dead man distracted him for a second and the sound reminded him that he was being chased.
"Huh?" Right next to the dead body, there was a small table that had a candle on top of it. A candle that was almost completely melted but it was still lit , confirming that the man didn't die long ago. Taking a deep breath despite the smell, Raziel moved towards the candle and stood next to the table. "COME ON!" Before calling out for the large reptile.
"CAW!" That bashed through the door once again, with the cut that he made using the halberd bleeding heavily. "CAW!"
"Caw!" And as soon as it was right in front of him, the Prince moncklingyl imitated it's sound. Before he grabbed the melted candle with his bare hand, and tossed at the Walking lizard that was covered in oil.
The oil caught on fire as soon as the flame touched the Walking lizard's skin. "CAW! CAW! CAW! CAW!" With it's body being engulfed in flames.
"Hmm!" The Prince stepped back as a large reptile burned in front of him while grunting in pain as the hot animal fat from the candle burned his hand. Despite his pain however, the boy couldn't help but giggle at the sight of the Walking lizard being burned alive. Slowly stepping backwards as the reptile shaked and moved it's body around in a futile attempt to put out the flames, until it actually stumbled on the dead body and chair, falling into the floor of that house right away.
Sinister smile appeared in the Prince's face as he watched the large reptile die. The smile disappeared however, when he realized that the rest of the place began to burn as well. So the boy walked towards the door where he came from and stepped out of the house. Letting out a deep sigh in response to what just happened.
"What is going on?" The boy asked himself as he made his way back to where he came from, as there was someone he really wanted to talk to.
"Lord Arryn?" After making his way back to the store that belonged to Petyr Baelish, Raziel Baratheon immediately went to the building where he saw Lyro Arryn before the Walking lizard went after him. Standing in the entrance of the dark building in order to search for the kind of man that let him stay in his home. "Hello?"
Despite the pain in his chest and arm, alongside the burn in his hand. Raziel's desire to know what exactly happened there simply caused him to ignore the pain and push forward. "Lyro?" He continued to call from the door, but nothing but silence came.
The boy sighed before stepping forward. "Please don't be dead..." Because he really didn't want to tell Lady Bau that she lost her husband. So the boy decided to step forward in order to check the building. The entrance was easy enough to find, and it seemed like the building was empty. If I'm not mistaken, this building belongs to Lord Baelish as well and I remember Jon mentioning that he actually met with Lord Grafton here before he succumbed to the illness.
He looked around for a bit in order to see if there were any more supplies. "Lyro?" Raziel called out for him once again as he proceeded to make his way to the stairs that would lead him to the floor above. It only took him a few seconds to climb the stairs and make it to the second floor of that building. "Lyro?" And as soon as he reached it, he saw Lyro there.
He was sitting on the floor right below the window. The boy rushed towards Jon's cousin to see if he was okay. "Lyro?" Once he got close, he inspected the man. "Oh no..." The first thing he realized was a wound in his forearm, a large wound that was clearly caused by a bite. From the sharp teeth of the Walking lizard if Raziel wasn't mistaken. Checking him closer, he realized that he was still breathing but probably passed out from blood loss. There was a piece of cloth wrapped around his forearm, which he probably put it on to stop the bleeding. Dammit, I need to go fetch a Maester quickly. The boy thought as he immediately stood up to go find one.
"CAW!" But as soon as he was on his feet, he was startled by the dreadful sound that he heard way too many times already. No bloody way! The sound came from the window that was right in front of him, and the boy wasted no time in peeking in order to see it. Oh fuck! Only to catch the sight of another Walking lizard standing right in front of the store. How many of these things are there?! Raziel barely managed to survive one of them, he was more than certain that he couldn't take on another one.
"CAW!" And it just got worse, because a third one just exited the store, and now there were two of them standing down there.
"Huh?" However, alongside the Walking lizard, someone also exited the store.
Stepping out of the Petyr Baelish store of smuggled goods. It was a man, a very strange looking man. He was tall, but with an emaciated appearance, but what stood out the most about the man was his completion, he had a very dark complexion, darker than you would see in people from either the the Summer Isles or Naath. His head had strange looking locks of black hair that seemed quite dirty and his face was covered in strange looking red paint and he also had odd looking jewelry, like a golden ring pierced on his lip connected with a chain that went all the way to his ear with an identical earring. He was topless, wearing white and very dirty looking long breeches and sandals. In his head, he had a strange looking club with a skull on the tip.
Who is that... The Prince wondered as he observed the strange man from the window.
As he tried to figure it out, another individual showed themselves. Also stepping out of the store, was another man, or at least he thought it was a man. Approaching the emaciated man, was a massively muscled, big-boned men with long arms, sloped forehead, huge square teeth, a heavy jaw, coarse black hair, a flat nose and thick skins brindled in patterns of brown and white, making him seem more hog-like than human. He was wearing a long robe that only covered him to the thighs.
Wait... That's a Sothoryi. Sothoryi, also known as the Brindled Men, are the native inhabitants of the continent of Sothoryos. Raziel remembers reading a book about them once and the description that he read on the book matched his appearance perfectly. I guess that's how the Walking lizards got here. A theory that was supported by the fact that the Sothoryi touched one of the Walking lizard's head, patting it like it was his pet.
"Small man, gone?" Suddenly, the emaciated man began to speak while making strange looking handsights towards the Sothoryi.
The Sothoryi simply lifted his hand and moved his index finger up and right, apparently confirming what he asked.
"Back to sea." The emaciated man then moves past the Sothoryi, visibly enraged.
The Sothoryi simply pulled something from inside his robe in response. A strange looking pendant that was an enclosed space made of bone with four finger holes and a mouthpiece that projects from the body. He brought the strange looking pendant to his mouth and proceeded to play a strange song in it, making Raziel realize that it was some kind of flute or something similar.
"CAW!" The song caused the Walking lizards to react to it, and to the Prince's surprise, they actually followed the Sothoryi as he followed the emaciated man away from the shop.
What the hell just happened? Raziel asked himself as he observed the two strange individuals leave. Small man... I'm pretty sure he meant Lord Baelish... Who is still nowhere to be found by the way.
"Dammit..." Removing his head from the window, Raziel stepped back and remembered that Lyro needed help. Petyr Baelish has a lot of explaining to do. The Prince had no choice but to turn around and run to get help for Lyro.
Q AND A:
So I thought for some fun when Raziel is at Highgarden and gets his Horse Willas could give a bit of a history around the Horse pedigree and that Willas considers the one Raziel will tame the finest Horse he's breed and as for the Horses lineage on the paternal side it's descends from the finest war horse Destriers kept by House Ryswell and House Bracken and the finest Andal charger kept in Highgardens stables at the time as for its maternal side the mare that birthed Raziel's future horse was one Oberyn had breed the result of the union between a Dornish Sand steed and a Dothraki war horse that he had gifted to Willas
This impeccable breeding lead to the finest Horse ever breed Raziel horse being exceptionally big for a Destrier with it being far swifter than a horse its size has any right being and endurance akin to a Sand Steed the only problem with the Horse as far as anyone is considered is the fact it is the waking embodiment of wraith
Willas could say the horse was initially suppose to be for either Garlan or Loras but the horse bucked them both off and then Willas tried offering it to some of the household knights but similarly the horse kept rejecting all of them it had even broken the bones of some knights perhaps even killed one or two and when the notion of gelding it came up Willas firmly rejected such a idea but say one annoyed stable hand tried to geld the horse only for that stable hand to get his skull caved in
Point is the horse is very much the terror of the stables despite its young age but it has become a contest of sorts among the residents of Highgarden of who can tame the horse and it's been declared whoever can tame the horse keeps it leading to a few broken bones for some household knights a hedge knight or two and two dum stable boys haha and everyone thinking no one can tame this demon from the deepest pit in the seven hells
You know until Raziel comes along jumps into its paddock casual as you please and the demon horse actually allows Raziel to climb on to it no issue and follows his commands as he rides it around to the shock of all witnesses and just like that Raziel gets his horse a Horse that if any Dothraki saw it would declare it a Horse fit for a Khal nay the Horse fit for he who will mount the world
In regards to Raziel fostering in Dorne I do hope the plan is during his first night at Sunspear in the night Raziel finds a extremely venomous snake the most venomous one imaginable and then when the Martells are all gathered for a meal the next day some are snickering over what they did with Raziel and that snake only to be gob smacked when Raziel walks in with the extremely dangerous snake wrapped around his arm and neck and he's petting the dam thing and kissing its head and he's very reluctant to part with it when Tyene awkwardly asks for it back meanwhile Alayne is thinking to herself it's a good thing that snake had the right idea of loving Raziel haha
I also hope while at the Water Gardens while Raziel mainly just loves relaxing in the water it's mentioned a few times that he indulges Obella by being her mount in the shoulder riding game and do hope by the time Raziel leaves Dorne Obella declares she will be one of his squires one day a declaration that could come true with her being the second female squire he takes after Arya
Side note think it be grand if Arya and Obella become best friends
By the way in regards to when Raziel and Dany hatch dragons which I hope is sooner rather than later by the way as the sooner they are hatched the larger they will be for the wars to come and all that another thing is I hope they aren't hidden away some might think Robert would rage at the presence of actual dragons but I don't think Robert would hate the creatures themselves specifically and if his beloved son Raziel was the one to hatch them I think it's perfectly reasonable to think Robert would delight in that fact
Why because in his mind he took the Iron Throne from the Targaryens and then his son and heir takes the very dragons the Targaryens held so dearly from them not only that his son did what every King since Aegon III tried and failed to do and that's bring the dragons back and his son is the first Baratheon to ever claim a Dragon and you can easily picture Robert going around boasting to everyone about his son
Going back to Dorne for a way Raziel could find Missandi in his service is while at the water garden a ship gets wrecked and washed ashore within sight of the garden Raziel rides out and is among the first to get there and finding the survivors and among them is Missandi and her master who Raziel quietly finished off and he takes the lovely Missandi into his service from then on
Missandi could explain that she low key prayed for the storm as her master could have declared he'd take her maiden hood that night but before he could the storm happens they wash ashore and Raziel kills the master and Missandi finds herself with a far more handsome master who treats her splendidly a master she wouldn't mind giving her first time to haha
You know, those are very interesting ideas, I was actually trying to think of something like that due to my desire for a unique horse for Raziel. As I want to showcase Raziel's greed for having unique things that no one else has.
That is a very cool idea.
Haha, I was actually planning on somethinglike that, just a little different.
Basically.
Unfortunately, it makes a certain Khal want the horse for himself.
Actually, Raziel actually eats the snake instead, to everyone's shock.
Raziel gets along with all of Oberyn and Ellaria's children to be honest.
Not exactly.
Not exaclty.
Well...
Nah, he will meet her before that.
Haha... No.
Obrigado pelo capítulo incrível, Autor-San!
De nada.
Ah yes the annual chapter...
Katherine... please shut up...
Goood!
GOOOOOD!
Well done. I like it
THX
Mr Guest chapter 34 . Aug 20
It was great seeing this get a new chapter yesterday
Didn't expect for Grafton Keep to be where Jon decided to coral all the infected but I suppose it is easier to keep everyone in there than corning off a section of Gultown to send them all also just like the mental imagine of Raziel casually drinking tea and eating biscuits while looking down on all the people being sent into the keep and as for why Lady Bau decided to start redecorating now of all times I'm going to guess it was just something to take her mind of the fact Gultown might have just been about to become ground zero for a red plague
Why I call it a red plague is I just tried to imagine what this outbreak would be called in the history books if it got out that or the flesh plague haha
Okay I got a good laugh from Jon returning to Lyro's manse after hearing about Lady Grafton and the location of the new Lord Grafton and his brother and all that to find Raziel has joined Bau in doing some interior design work haha again very much enjoy how well Raziel and Bau get on and like that while he knew it was a serious conversation they where about to have with old Jon he still took time to rest the back of his head of Bau breasts haha
Also nice that Raziel also had the concern about ensuring that Bau and Lyro would be able to leave the city with him and Jon and their retinue so yeah glad that the Arryn of Gulltown household will be leaving the city for a time while it's ensured the plague is dealt with I'm sure Raziel is just happy he gets to spend a bit more time with Lady Bau haha
Raziel showing true benevolence by feeding the less fortunate with the birds he's shooting out of the sky haha can see that guy spreading the tale about the kind hearted prince helping to feed his family when in reality Raziel was just passing the time shooting birds haha anyway surprised the other historic plagues Raziel didn't mention alongside the grey plague I'd say the Shivers and especially the Great Spring sickness deserved a mention
A fire is certainly one way to prevent the spread of the plague and as severe as it might be that fire just prevented the plague from spreading since all the cities infected where confined in there and the fact they were confined means none of them had a chance to escape like the other residents of the keep could and with word being spread to the other minor ports in the vale and word being sent to the other major ones this plague won't now have a chance to find its feet but man felt bad for old Jon due to his reaction of seeing this
I imagine riding out to find where the hell her husband is also made Bau even fonder of Raziel despite her protest about him going out and shouldn't take long as Lyro should be heading either to his manse or the keep but yeah happy to hear that Bau is Raziel's favourite resident or Gulltown and might just be second only to Mya when it comes to people Raziel has meet in the Vale that he likes haha
As for what caused the fire my money is on either Lady Grafton started it herself or Petyr had something to do with it
If Raziel is ten times more sadistic than Ramsey I almost feel bad for his enemies almost being the word haha feel like Raziel is going to be sharing the moniker of the Cruel with Maegor though unlike Maegor Raziel will have a dozen other monikers that will have more positive connotations haha but again hope the Impaler is another he ends up with
The fact there is nothing little about Raziel is exactly why I said Myrcella would call him her big brother haha
Nice to hear Lady will be as obedient as her sister is to Raziel and speaking of the wolf Nymeria since Nymeria is still also Aryas wolf perhaps it's a case where she still responds to Aryas commands but Arya has to repeat herself a lot of the time while Raziel only needs one command and while still very much Arya own shadow when Raziel is around Nymeria acts like she's his wolf haha think Arya would still love Nymeria to death and still be annoyed by her wolf's clear preference for Raziel haha
While not as attached to Raziel as his sisters still hope Ghost shows some fondness for Raziel to like he will go up to him to get a ear scratch and head pat before going back over to Jon where as Lady and Nymeria stick close to Raziel haha essentially Ghost can still be called soley Jon's Direwolf where Lady and Nymeria they are also Raziel's as well as the stark sister they are attached to
Can also picture when taking the menagerie of beasts out hunting while Nymeria always follows Symeon in the hunts Lady only occasionally joins in the hunts preferring just to stay with Raziel while all the other beasts go hunting together
See with Gerold now I imagine him stealing Dawn from the likely shrine the Daynes keep the sword at in Starfall when there's no worthy wielder of the sword and before he makes it out the castle Raziel comes across him and before a gathered crowd Raziel draws his Valyrian steel sword left by the Seastar and he disarms Gerold with contemptuous eas before cutting him down
For the wildling chiefs Raziel kills can he at least kill one immediately after the Giant to get himself a nice big warm tent say he heard Weeper or Rattleshirt boasting about their new tent and so Raziel being himself was just like hey cool I'll take that by just killing you haha
Hope Alayne does have Bethany Blackwood and Bess Bracken as her hand maids then
For Alayne another reason she could be a young spy master aside from having one handed to her by Shella is since there's something like magic in the Tully blood courtesy of their link to the Whents who are linked to the Lothston who are likely linked to the Targaryens perhaps from a young age Alayne has had rats and bats speak to her and at her request they tell her all sorts of secrets
Ie really playing in to Alayne being the latest in a line of witch like figures attacked to both Harrenhall and the royals but yeah the animal she could actually warg into is the Shadowcat she gets
Also anything magic in the Tully blood due to Minisa clearly skipped her children and certainly won't be passed down via Edmures line haha
I'm glad to hear it.
Considering that it basically started there and most of the primary infected came from there, it kind of make sense and the Keep is large enough to accommodate everyone. That's kind of a very Raziel thing to do. Lady Bau was trying to distract herself from the dreadful situation though.
Flesh plague fits well enough.
Raziel has a way of charming older ladies.
Basically, he really liked the two for being genuinely nice people with a great sense of hospitality.
Yeah, he accidentally feed that guy and his family while just trying to pass the time. Raziel was only thinking of the most similar one to that situation, those two were much worse and it was why he didn't compare them with the current situation.
I always felt bad for poor Jon, had to work his ass off to keep the Kingdom running while trying to control his drunk foster son only to be murdered by his batshit crazy wife that he didn't even want to marry.
You got that right, just much more considering what the poor boy had to go through to get her husband.
I would bet on both.
Raziel the Impaler, that would be a cool moniquer.
Oh I see, LOL...
It's kind of what I plan to go for.
That's a nice idea.
Unfortunately, the fool will actually get away with it and Raziel will have to team up with Ned Dayne recover it.
Actually, he would probably burns the tent with him inside in response.
That's a fun idea.
Well...
Mmmmm...
Hahaha, yeah...
Love it.
Love it too...
You should update your story on "Archiveofourown" as well so it is seen more !
Only when all parts of a chapter are out so I can post it full on the site.
"Only a fool will trust Baelish" OG Catelyn and Ned: We are FOOLS!
Thankfully, Raziel is no fool.