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  Pessoa Thrid POV

  Westeros, 295 AC.

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  The king's cil soon filled up with all members, with Robert entering st, still sleepy. "I need something to keep me awake for this..." He excimed a straight to the wine as usual, filling a gss for himself, taking a long sip, and then turning back to all the members who were staring at him at that moment.

  "We begin, I want all the news of what happened in that kingdom. But why haven't we received any ravens i few weeks?!" Robert demanded.

  "Well, yrace, something happened, because my little birds could not send any news, it is very likely they were captured," Varys ented with a sad and cautious look, while his gaze again searched the skies, always wary. He could not say that this meeting might be spied on by a sorcerer through birds and suggest they ge the meeting pce, after all, he would be deemed insane.

  "What inpetence!" Robert immediately excimed. "Perhaps we should ge the master of whispers..." He blurted out, taking another sip, while Jon gave Varys an apologetic look, knowing there was no way to find another master of whispers to repce Varys and even if they could, Varys would be a threat with the work of information he possesses.

  Varys was not offended, or at least he made a very ral face while listening to the king. "I apologize, your majesty..." He began. "Then I will ght to the subject of the news."

  He quickly caught the attention of Robert Baratheon, Jon Arryn, Stannis Baratheon, Cersei Baratheon, Grand Maester Pycelle, Petyr Baelish, and Barristan Selmy, waiting for him to tinue.

  "There was a tourhat Jon Artica's group participated in... First with Jon Artica sending two representatives to the archery tour..." Varys began, with Robert raising an eyebrow in disappoi.

  "What? Ned's son didn't participate?" He excimed.

  "Yes and no, Yrace..." Varys said and tinued before the king could interrupt him, cursing him for the charade. "One of those partits was Arya Stark..." he spoke.

  "Ned's daughter?!" Robert was extremely surprised by this, knowing the girl must be about 10 or 11 namedays.

  "Yes," Varys began.

  "Catelyn Stark will be furious when she finds out about this..." Baelish spoke with a mog tone.

  "That's so wild..." Cersei also mocked. "No wonder she spent years beyond the Wall, that's the behavior of a wildling!"

  "..." Stannis said nothing, maintaining a ral face, as could be said of Selmy.

  "..." Jon also remained silent without ents, but had disapproving eyes for such behavior.

  "Shut up, woman!" Robert s Cersei. "I'm ied in what the girl did, tell me Varys, what result did she achieve!" Robert was excited to see how Arya would fare in this tour, although he did not expect her to do well.

  Varys sighed. "She fihe petition in 4th pce, missing the target at 110 meters," he decred, and everyone immediately looked at him fused for a moment, trying to digest what they had just heard.

  "Wait a minute... are you saying that Ned's you daughter hit a target at 100 meters and still took fourth pce?!" Robert's eyes wide this.

  "She hit a target at 105 meters, yrace," Varys corrected him.

  "..." The pce fell silent for a while. Until Robert burst into ughter, breaking the silence.

  "Hahahahahaha! You're saying Ned's little girl hit a target at 105 meters, she's 10 namedays, isn't she?" he excimed joyfully, as he always does when he hears news of Ned's children.

  "11 namedays, yrace," Varys said.

  "That's incredible!! How many archers do that ieros?" he asked openly.

  "Few, yrace, maybe about 100 of them," Selmy replied.

  "You see Jon... Ned has very good children... If Marcel could do something like this, I would be such a proud father..." he couldn't help but murmur.

  "Do you think our daughter would do something so wild?! I refuse!" Cersei growled, but Robert didn't care.

  "I agree with the queen, yrace... This activity is not firls..." Jon Arryn also disapproved of such behavior.

  "It's hard to believe a girl could do this... are you really sure about this?" Stannis seemed skeptical about it. He couldn't imagine his daughter doing something like that.

  "There are thousands of witnesses, my prince... You will hear about it in the ing moons. The girl is an unpreted prodigy," he said as Stannis nodded.

  "There was another representative from Artica. He woour, I presume," Selmy ented.

  "You are correct, the Artis have proven to be great warriors both iraining yard of Highgarden and iour; the Artiamed Eldri the tour by hitting a target at 125 meters distance..." he spoke while Robert whistled.

  "We should ihem to our our... I'd like to see such strength," Robert excimed.

  "Don't fet Robert, we must capture those wildlings for what they did with the trade ships from the Vale!" Cersei snarled.

  "I agree with the queen, yrace..." Baelish said, and Jon also nodded in support, her of the st two wanting to ease any punishment that Jon Artica would have.

  "Enough of this talk, I first want to know about the tour, tell me, Eunuch, I heard Ned's son woour, I want to know the details!" He excimed and Varys nodded.

  "As he fought in the joust, he is not a knight... This is a bsphemy against the 7!" Jon Arryn interrupted with a tone of disapproval.

  "Prince Renly made a bet with Jon Artica, in exge for the Valyrian steel sword that is in possession of the Arti king," Varys ented.

  "Darksister..." Selmy seemed ied.

  "The legendary sword of those damned dragons..." Robert ented.

  "Prince Renly argued that the sword belongs to him, so he made a proposal with Joing nds on the coast of Stormnds with his champion, Loras Tyrell," Varys ented, and Robert seemed increasingly ied.

  "Renly tried to take the sword for himself?! It belongs to my Joffrey by right!" Cersei immediately shouted.

  "Shut up, woman, I want to hear the rest of the story," he said, though he already khat Jon Artica wins the tour.

  "The tour began and the final ended up beiween Jon Artid Loras Tyrell, and as you know, the victory went to Jon Artica. There are some rumors that he trol animals and this gave him the victory," Varys couldn't help but ent on this at the end, after all, he hated magic.

  "Fanciful stories," Robert ented. "But look at Ned's children... Damned be that bastard, always having children who stand out... even though one of them is a bastard," Robert ented joyfully, he regardless of the current circumstances, he will always be proud of his foster brother.

  "The wildling woour, but the Tyrells kept them in custody?" Cersei immediately asked after hearing suonsense.

  "I don't think so... when I received this letter, they reported that the Artis were preparing to depart, while Jon Artica was finishing his iations," Varys ented.

  "What?! We sent a royal order, it should have reached the Tyrells!" Jon Arryn spoke sternly.

  "The Tyrells are disobeying the ! They are traitors!" Cersei accused.

  "I don't think that's it..." Varys tried to crify. "It's like the letter never reached them..." he said.

  "We'll look into this ter, and hope that Sir James bring them uhe custody of the ," Jon Arryn interrupted, leaving that discussion for ter. "I want to know what resulted from these iations with the Tyrells. We know the Artis bought animals, metals, books, hired teachers, and eve sand... as well as sold their own products in Dorne... Now what did they do?" Jon Arryn asked.

  "Before that, sorry to interrupt, did you find out why they took the sand?" Baelish asked curiously.

  "No... I don't know why they took so much sand to the north..." Varys ented and tinued.

  "Yes, he agaiiated his products with the Reach..." Varys began.

  "Wait... he has to e here, I need his drinks too!!" Robert interrupted while everyone looked at him with their own thoughts, he just wanted more alcohol to drink in the end.

  Varys then tinued. "His iations with the Tyrell family were about buying a rge amount of horses, he bought 8,000 in total, while 3,000 were already entering his ship and another 5,000 would be picked up ter..." Varys spoke.

  "8,000 horses... That's a good amount," Stannis ented.

  "Yes, besides the horses, animals were bought aals again with some other resources from the Reach," Varys said.

  "How much did he spend?" Baelish asked.

  "Over 1 million golden dragons..." Varys responded as the room fell silent again, stunned by that amount.

  "The damn man is that rich? Didn't he already spend an exorbitant amount in Dorne?!" Robert excimed.

  "Yes... We don't know how much Jon Artica has in his coffers beyond the Wall, but he loaded his ships with gold," Varys ented.

  "The north of the Wall is a region never before explored... who's to say there aren't gold veins as rge as in the west?" Stannis ented.

  "Maybe the Lannisters aren't the richest after all..." Baelish ented, looking at the queen, who seemed quite offended by this, g her fists ah.

  "Another reason to capture them and start a campaign beyond the Wall!" Cersei excimed.

  "We are not starting a war over a few trade ships..." Jon Arryn himself said this, even though the attacked ships were from his kingdom, he wasn't foolish enough to start a war amidst a financial crisis in the , let alone in a nd that even the North would be hesitant to ehe risks were too great for a profit they were not even sure of, their best ce was t Jon Artica to the capital and force him with the demands of the .

  "Anyway... is there anything else iing from the Reach?" Baelish asked, though he agreed more with the queen than Jon.

  "Well... there were a few more iing things besides the trade and tour..." Varys began. "This retes to Arya Stark." He said and Robert immediately became ied.

  "Something more about Ned's daughter?!" Robert excimed.

  "Arya Stark stood out as a huge potential bride for all the nobles present from the Reach." He began.

  "But she's a wildling!" Cersei excimed.

  "Shut up, woman, I won't listen to you insult the girl, otherwise, you will be removed from this meeting!" Robert spoke as he became increasingly drunk as the meeting progressed.

  "..." Cersei was frustrated, but she kept quiet.

  "She stood out not only iour, but she made friendships with all the great dies at the tour, knowing how to behave like a true dy and showing great intelligence," he said.

  "Intelligence?" Baelish seemed ied.

  "Yes, my spies heard some hat Arya and evei queen possess great knowledge, speaking uages to unicate among themselves without anyone hearing, and Arya showed she had a sharp mind wheioned by a maester, leaving them even speechless," he said.

  "Really...? The girl do that?" Robert now seemed skeptical like the others.

  "Yes... She has bee a potential target, in addition to her extreme blossomiy, which many saw surpassing even the garden's own flower, Margaery Tyrell," he said.

  "Maybe she takes after her mother..." Baelish said with a smile.

  "Beautiful and intelligent... old me she was very much like Lyanna, and I remember when I visited Winterfell many years ago... and he wasn't lying... so that's obvious!" Robert said to himself, lost in memories of the time he had his fiancée.

  Cersei heard this and turned red with the mention, Lyanna was a wound to her pride, first seeing that Rhaegar chose Lyanna at that test, even though he was married, it was she who should have received the tour ... And to plete her affli, even Robert, who on their first night together, he called out for this dead woman, and he never lost his passion for her even after a decade and a half.

  Cersei was also frustrated with other things, but said nothing, after what she heard from Robert, she knew he would remove her, but her thoughts were anything but calm at that moment.

  'Why... are these wildlings standing out so much... Shouldn't it be her son, the true king of Westeros to be accimed in the realms.. not a wildling from the north!!' She excimed internally. 'Shouldn't it be her sweet daughter being coveted in this way!? Why are these Starks sidered more by everyohan her own lions?' She thought frustratedly.

  'Someone younger will e along...' A voice appeared in the queen's mind at that moment, leavirembling inside.

  'Someone younger will e along and take everything that belongs to you...' The voice of that witch echoed again, while Cersei trembled without aig.

  She still remembered going to the forest to see that prophed she believed in it, after all, everything the witch said, came true. 'Could it be this little brat?!' She excimed internally.

  "So this would be the queen who will repce me and take everything from me? Younger and more beautiful? I will kill her before she ents my son!" She murmured quietly to herself, unheard by anyone.

  If she was desperate there, what she began to hear made her even more dazed. "Jon, I have an idea, if Ned's daughter is so coveted, I want you to send a letter to Ned, proposing an e between Arya Stark and my heir!" He excimed.

  "What?!" Cersei shouted, drawing everyone's attention, and she spoke with a venomous tone. "Yoing to give our son to a wildling?!" She snarled, not g about Robert's previous threat.

  "Leave this room immediately, woman, I don't want to hear you speak ill of the girl again!" He excimed. "Ser Selmy, apany the queen out of this room!" He anded, and the knight nodded.

  "..." Cersei looked at the king with a deadly gaze, g her teeth like never before. "I hope you listen to me, Robert, if you marry our daughter to this girl, I will make yret it, I swear!!" She excimed and started to leave with Selmy apanying her, while everyone was surprised by her outburst.

  "What's gotten into this woman...?" Robert was at a loss for words.

  "I don't know, your majesty. But you should think very carefully before proposing something like this..." Jon spoke and tinued. "Arya Stark spent years beyond the Wall... many will see our future king having a wild queen..." He said.

  "I want a marriage between my family and that of Ned! Isn't the girl intelligent aiful? Besides using a bow, maybe she'll put my useless son in his proper pce!" Robert excimed, now seeing an incredible opportunity to marry the two families and uhem.

  "Yrace... Lady Catelyn Stark expects it to be her oldest daughter... Sansa..." Baelish ented.

  "The younger daughter seems much more suitable to be a queen. And she still looks like Lyanna... if I 't marry her, at least my son will!" Robert excimed, not knowing how Cersei nning to do everything to stop this, even going to the king's chamber and driving out all the prostitutes there to wait for him and try to seduce him.

  But without knowing this, Robert tinued. "Pycelle, send a letter to Ned, I want you to write about his daughter Arya and the i in seeing his you daughter as a potential maty eldest son!" Robert excimed.

  Pycelle, who had been silent the whole time, o the king's demand without questioning. "Very well... I will do that, your majesty." He said.

  "That's great. Now let's wait and see what Ned does and hope that Jon Artica is brought to the capital with Arya, I want to see the girl personally before approving her."

  As always, there were some eyes hidden from everyone's view at that meeting, while Jon listeo everything hidden, even with Varys being quite atteo spot anything and looking up from time to time to find him, the man always seemed cautious to say anything because he always had the impression that he was being listeo.

  Ba the Reach, the Arti group's jouro the coast sted a few more days while Jon finally saw the coastal city ahead.

  "My king." A group of Arti soldiers came out of Oak Garden and greeted them on the road as soon as they saw him through their Wargs.

  "It's good to see you." Joed them while looking at at least 40 ships still in the harbor. "How are things?" He asked.

  "All the requested horses are at sea, we're just finishing up gathering the st of the livestock." He said, and Jon nodded.

  "That's good... but our friends will soon catch up to us like this..." Jon ented.

  "Should I defeat them, my king?" One of the royal guards asked, and Jon shook his head.

  "No, I want to do it myself. We'll have to wait for them outside the city; after all, it would cause us many problems there, so we'll catch them here and pn to leave as if nothing had happened..." Jon shared his thoughts while everyone around nodded in agreement.

  He had a pn and even if it could make him an enemy of Westeros, he would proceed, sihe sequences would be minimal. He had set his two hawks to fly hgarden aerminate all the ravens, leaving the pce without unication i few days.

  "Have you prepared the birds?" Jon asked as a cart was brought with many birds he had purchased, birds from the Reach. He began to bond with all of them and released them.

  His objective was simple: to hunt all the ravens ing in and out of Oldtown, needing to isote the ey, after all, he was going to make the visit that the maesters and Lord Hightower wanted. Jon watched the 30 eagles flying south before turning back to his men.

  "Now let's wait for Ser James to e; I want to see if his reputation with the sword is as good as they imagine..." Jon advised, and they prepared for the ambush.

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