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Chapter 74
🕑 Added 2025-10-29 16:30:43 +0000 UTC[Joffrey and Sansa are outside, walking past a row of spears in the Red Keep. Trant and Clegane follow behind them.]
"And as soon as you've had your blood, I'll put a son in you. Mother says that shouldn't be long."
"I'll never marry him or carry his child" Sansa spat in disgust and anger. Gone was the infatuation she felt for Joffrey, replaced by seething anger and disgust.
[The pikes have impaled heads on them. Sansa looks away.]
"This one's your father. This one here. Look at it and see what happens to traitors."
"I am going to strangle that abomination" Brandon the Elder snapped.
"You're dead" Lyanna pointed out, though looking as if she felt the same way.
"HE won't survive long once all of us return." Brandon the Elder swore with a dangerous glint in his eyes.
"You promised to be merciful."
"I was. I gave him a clean death. Look at him.
"Please let me go home. I won't do any treason, I swear -"
"Mother says I'm still to marry you. So you'll stay here, and obey. Look at him!"
"Mother this, mother that" Olenna spat. "And the boy's our King!"
"He isn't. And he won't be" Robert rumbled.
Olenna eyed the King closely before eyeing her granddaughter.
Margaery met her gaze and nodded.
[Sansa looks up at the head of her father.]
"How long do I have to look?"
"As long as it pleases me. That's your Septa there"
Sansa gasped in horror while Arya glared murderously at the Wall. She may not have much love for the woman, but she had hate for Joffrey.
"I'll tell you what, I'm going to give you a present. After I raise my armies and kill your traitor brother, I'm going to give you his head as well."
"Or maybe he'll give me yours."
[Sansa looks defiantly at Joffrey, who cowers.]
"Of all times for your Stark to show" Robb grinned viciously.
"I'm not wrong. You will give me his head" Sansa said in a matter-of-fact tone.
"I would."
"My mother tells me a king should never strike his lady. Ser Meryn."
[Ser Meryn strikes Sansa repeatedly with the back of his armoured hand, leaving her lip bloodied.]
"That bastard!" Robb swore, looking ready to throw down with the man.
Bran stared at the screen with disgust and shock. Was this the Kingsguard he wanted to be part of so bad? He had thought that perhaps these men would be honourable and perhaps counsel their King to act properly. Like many Kingsguard of the past did.
[Sansa notices the stone bridge Joffrey is on leads to a street some feet below. She moves forward to lunge him from the edge, but she's stopped by the Hound.]
"Damnit" Arya muttered.
"Here, girl."
[The Hound cleans her bloody lip with a rag.]
"Will you obey now? Or do you need another lesson? I'll look for you in court.
"All brave now that he is surrounded by mindless brutes who listen to him without question" Lyanna muttered venomously. She was going to note every face, and once they crossed over, she'd beat them all up. No doubt Brandon would join her.
[War meeting at the Stark camp. They sit at the table at night by torchlight.]
"The proper course is clear - pledge fealty to King Renly and move south to join our forces with his."
"Renly is not the king."
"You cannot mean to hold to Joffrey, my lord. He put your father to death."
"That doesn't make Renly king. He's Robert's youngest brother. If Bran can't be Lord of Winterfell before me, Renly can't be king before Stannis."
"Do you mean to declare us for Stannis?"
"Renly is not right! If we put ourselves behind Stannis..."
"Quite a conundrum" Oberyn chuckled softly and eyed Robb Stark. "What would you do now little wolf" he murmured to himself.
Q. What will Robb Stark do next ?
A) Support Stannis Baratheon
B) Support Renly Baratheon
C) Becoming The King in the North
D) Allie himself with Martell's
"C) Becoming the king of the North" Jon Snow said in a second.
"You really think I would do that?" Robb asked Jon curiously as he didn't even think about becoming the King himself.
"No but the North had been waiting for a chance to regain their independence and their is no chance like this one where the realms are divided" Jon explained hearing which Robb nodded his head in understanding.
"My Lords. My Lords! Here is what I say to these two kings. Renly Baratheon is nothing to me, nor Stannis neither. Why should they rule over me and mine from some flowery seat in the South? What do they know of the Wall or the Wolfswood? Even their gods are wrong! Why shouldn't we rule ourselves again? it was the dragons we bowed to and now the dragons are dead! There sits the only king I mean to bend my knee to the King in the North!"
[The Greatjon bows to Robb with his sword unsheathed.]
"A King in The North!" Brandon the Elder barked a laugh. But couldn't help but feel dread coil in him.
"I'll have peace on those terms. They can keep their Red Castle and their iron chair too. The King in the North!"
[Theon Greyjoy takes out his sword, and bows to Robb]
"My sword is yours in victory and defeat, from this day until my last day."
[All chanting The King in the North! They all take out their swords and swear fealty to Robb as Catelyn looks wearily at the whole scene.]
Congratulation to Jon Snow for the right right answer he gains immunity to all the posisons in the world.
"Thank god, I was worried that I would be poisoned before I could grow now I don't have to worry about it" Jon said not caring how many people heard him.
[Catelyn goes to the outskirts of their camp, to the dungeons where prisoners are being kept.]
"Lady Stark."
"I want to see him. Now! Leave us."
"Cat" Ned thought with a sigh. He prayed that his wife did not do something stupid here.
[They walk for a while until they reach Jaime Lannister, kept away far from the rest.]
"You look lovely tonight, Lady Stark. Widowhood becomes you. Your bed must be lonely. Is that why you came? I'm not at my best, but I think I could be of service. You slip out of that gown and we'll see if I'm up to it."
"I apologize for the words my future self is speaking. I have a habit of saying things to rile up my opponents if I'm at a disadvantage" Jaime said immediately when the Starks all turned and glared at him.
Beside him, Joanna had pinched Jaime in the side. The reason why Jaime was apologizing in the first place.
[Catelyn grabs a large rock from the ground, marches towards him and hits the rock against his forehead]
"Oh, I do like a violent woman."
"I will kill you tonight, Ser. Pack your head in a box and send it to your sister."
"Do not do anything rash" Ned whispered to himself.
"Let me show you how. Hit me again, over the ear. And again and again. You're stronger than you look, it shouldn't take long."
"That is what you want the world to believe, isn't it? That you don't fear death."
"But I don't, my lady. The dark is coming for all of us. Why cry about it?"
"Because you are going to the deepest of the seven hells if the gods are just."
"What gods are those? The trees your husband prayed to? Where were the trees when his head was getting chopped off? If your gods are real and if they are just why is the world so full of injustice?"
"Because of men like you."
"There are no men like me. Only me."
"My son Bran. How did he come to fall from that tower?"
"I pushed him out the window."
"Why?"
"I hoped the fall would kill him."
"Why?"
"You should get some sleep. It's going to be a long war."
[Catelyn drops the rock and goes away.]
Jon inhaled sharply.
"What?" Robb asked.
"The rock" the half Stark motioned towards the Wall.
Robb understood and inhaled sharply as well. What if the Kingslayer used it to set himself free.
Comments
SHASHANK BHATT
It's done thanks for informing me.
cocob177
I have access to chap 74 and chap 78 but not the chaps in between
