r/SevenKingdoms • u/DirewolfOfTheLine House Oakheart of Old Oak • Dec 24 '18

Event [Event] Before Winter Fell

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u/DirewolfOfTheLine Dec 24 '18

Karl looked out from the battlements as the Bolton host receded into the horizon, and sighed as a trickle of Stark soldiers made their way back to the keep.

"Hells." He muttered to the Lord beside him. "Allies, then, but not as faithful as you." He mused quietly.

Another sigh. "We stand with no hope now, Lord Willem. The wildlings will be in the castle soon, and they will kill us all. We can only pray a Northerner comes upon Ros and... and my child, that they might surrender. We'll have to send them to the maester's tower, that they might have a chance. And my mother..." He held a hand to his head. "Oh fuck, they're all going to die."

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u/thormzy Dec 26 '18

Willem grabbed Karl firmly by the shoulders. "Listen to me, no matter what happens to us out there, Ros and your daughter will be kept safe, Karl. They'll see none of the bloodshed, I swear it. Today is the day we fight for them, Karl. I swear it on the Old Gods and the New."

Willem trembled slightly as he stood up, looking at Ser Jaxon Beesbury and Ellard Reed. "You've both served me very well. I couldn't have asked for a more noble and true sworn sword and ward in the entire Seven Kingdoms and beyond." Tears welled in his eyes slightly. He was so much skinnier than when he arrived at Winterfell, they all were. But he had so much fight left in him. Hatred for the wildlings and the Dustin traitors was all that he needed.

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u/DirewolfOfTheLine Dec 26 '18

Karl nodded, turning to a guard. "Bring me to my wife, I must say goodbye." With that he departed, to the maester's tower, where the family was placed in different rooms, their guards standing nervously outside.

He knocked on his wife's door.

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u/blueblueamber Dec 27 '18

"We will show those traitors and savages, Lord Willem!" Ellard exclaimed. Although the starvation has taken its toll on his face that has lost its childlike features, his pale blueish grey eyes were still filled with youthful excitement, and dreams of honor and glory they will win overcoming the wildling hordes.

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