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World on Fire by TheOtherMaidOfTarth
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
29 Mar 2024
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Summary
One of the Northmen closest to Nettles hefts a broad two-headed axe with ease in his large hand. “What was that!”
“I wouldn’t if I were you.” Sheepstealer would take it as a threat to her, since she can’t turn him away.
The grizzled old lord scowls at Nettles speaking to him as if he were a boy reaching out to touch a hot pot. “And who are you?”
She circles closer slowly, near enough so his horse sidles away from her, away from the smell of dragon. For every step forward she takes, the horse trots back. A wicked amusement tickles her at the flash of unease upon the rider’s craggly face. Such a rush this power is, potent as mead on an empty stomach. And her stomach has been empty more oft than not. “You ain’t heard o’ me?” She locks eyes with the quiet lord she can now see wears a pale cloak trimmed with grey. Ah, of course. He is still; watchful… Almost as if — “He knows who I am.” She tips her head to him in ironic imitation of a bow. “Lord Stark.” This had not been how Nettles planned on making the Lord of Winterfell’s acquaintance but the gods did so laugh at the plans of mortals. She might as well laugh with them.
In which Nettles is sent North after the Battle of the Gullet.
Series
- Part 1 of Deeper Down the Hunter’s Path Tread I