King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 524 delivered to your door
The weather will not change with the turmoil of the situation, flying in the The fine snow in the sky continued from the beginning to the end of the siege of Winterfell, and even after Igor took the castle, there was a trend of upgrading to medium snow. The ice crystals fluttered, and soon a layer of white paint was painted on the messy Winterfell. .

After sending Robb and Catelyn mother and son back to the main castle, Igor took a tour of the city, inspecting the progress of "exchanging venues" between the troops and local residents and repairing the bombed open the city gates. After confirming that everything was going according to plan, he found that oneself had a little free time for a while, thought for a while, and finally decided - to chat with Arya.

The land grant and North are equal rather than subordinate, and Igor has never sworn allegiance to any Stark. From a political and legal point of view, the so-called "betrayal of Stark" is actually not true. . But...the truth is: when the outside world accuses Igor of being a "traitor", what they usually think is that he violated the guidelines of Night's Watch's neutrality and failed to live up to the support and help of House Stark for a long time.

Judging from this aspect, scolding him for betraying the trust and friendship of the Wolf Family...it seems like it can't be called wrong again.

Acknowledging that oneself is a bad guy will obliterate the justice and legitimacy of his initiation of this southern expedition. Of course, Igor will not do such a stupid thing, but it does not affect his self-knowledge at the very least-playing word games to motivate Followers of oneself are necessary, but it is a taboo to deceive oneself and refuse to face the truth. In order to truly dispel the argument that oneself is a traitor, in addition to being the winner in the end and keeping House Stark members from being hurt by oneself's actions as much as possible, how they evaluate the matter in the future is also crucial.

The once close and good relationship between the two sides has dropped to a freezing point after this short and rapid hostilities and battles, but even if there is no emotional guilt, only reputation and interests are considered... I still want to hang out in Westeros, and I also hope that House Stark and North can continue to be oneself's political resources and allies, he should spend some time and energy to repair their favorability to oneself - not to restore the same, but to be able to Saving a little is a little.

And the best way to achieve this goal is to open a breakthrough from a certain... Miss Stark, who has slept in the same bed with oneself more than once, and has already had a considerable degree of intimacy.

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On the bridge connecting the main castle with the outside world, people come and go as usual, but now they have all become familiar faces in Queenscrown - Igor is not like another In the timeline, Theon, who succeeded in sneak attack Winterfell with only half a boat crew. The 5,000 people he brought with him to launch the Southern Expedition included men and women, warriors, craftsmen, and healers... People with all kinds of skills were readily available. It seems like a small society, and it can be proudly said that the best thing he can do is manpower.

In order to make it appear that Stark is still in charge when Daenerys arrives at Winterfell, Igor relocates the surrendered Wolf Family back to the main castle, but to ensure that the situation is under oneself control, he adds Two measures were taken: first, a blood change was carried out for the castle, all residents except House Stark members were replaced by oneself people, who put on House Stark's coat and cloak, and replaced the original guards, stewards and maids; second, Divide the Starks into a room for each except the baby and mother.

In this way, the Starks have no one to use, and they can't negotiate with each other, plus they can't get around the arsenal -- the whole castle seems to be the perfect place for house arrest , the risk of losing control and capsize is gone.

As for the people who were replaced, of course, they rushed to the winter town outside the city with the refugee residents.

The facilities and walls on the first floor of the main fort were damaged by artillery projectiles that penetrated the door panel. He stood still and observed the destructive power of his family property brand weapon for a few seconds before asking Chief-In-Charge. After clearing Second Young Lady's room, he calmly walked up the stairs to the upper living floor.

While walking slowly, thinking about how to speak, a sturdy Spearwife in a maid costume walked up to him: "Lord Commander, the little girl assigned to me, just wanted to let me die. Turn this over to you, otherwise you'll run into danger."

It's tiring to talk to someone with limited ability to describe, and Igor has to ask again: "Which little girl?"

"The little one." Probably also felt that oneself's answer was too vague, and Spearwife added: "The hair is like the gold one."

Isn't this clear, Igor shook his head: "That's Maeve - Maeve Snow. You are playing the role of House Stark's maid, you can't even say the name of the lady that oneself serves!" What?"

"Here." After being taught back and forth by the big stick and the carrot, the new land givers are basically both respectful and awe-inspiring to Igor, the woman nodded hard and handed a paper ball he. "Maeve, I remember."

Igor waved Spearwife away and opened the crumpled ball of paper.

The triangular piece of paper looks like a corner torn from a book, on which a few words are simply written in delicate and neat handwriting: Arya - Hiding - Needle.

It was a stupid sentence, but Igor immediately understood the meaning - even without the transmigrator's memory of the plot, he watched Jon use the little sword named "Needle" with his own eyes. Take it from Smith and take it to his little sister.

Arya is hiding that little sword at a time like this, for the security it brings, or is she trying to stab someone?
Myrcella is extremely intelligent and would never call the police in an unfathomable mystery, not to mention that Igor quickly recalls that Arya had been a little unusually quiet on the surrender ceremony in the arsenal lobby... It wasn't a change of temper, it was Thinking about dealing with oneself!
And oneself, I was almost delivered to my door.

Igor stopped in his tracks, chased away the emerging panic, and thought of a way to deal with it.

If it is purely safe, then of course, send a few more soldiers to break into Arya's room, search carefully again, find the sword and find it. Fleeing is the best, but what he has to do now is to save it. How can you show up with such a posture? But if you leave it alone, the sword will not have eyes...

After careful consideration, he crumpled the paper and put it away, and decided to visit as originally planned.

It's not that he's not afraid of death, but since no House Stark members were killed in this siege, it's not expected that Arya will hate oneself to such an extent that she will desperately meet. And even if the guess is wrong, the breastplate under the black coat can greatly improve the fault tolerance rate. What is he trying to wear protective gear secretly? Not just to prevent such an accident from happening!
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The main castle is not big, and Second Young Lady's room is just around the corner. After whispering some backup arrangements to the attendants at the door, Igor stepped forward and knocked on the door.

"Go away, don't bother me!"

The girl's irritable growl came from behind the door, as if she thought the knocker was someone else. Listening to the direction from which the sound came, he did not hide behind the door and wait for a sneak attack. Igor was slightly relieved and pushed the door cautiously.

Second Young Lady sat beside the bed with her back to the door, turned her head to look at the sound of the door opening, and was about to open her mouth to scold her, but after seeing who was coming, she quickly turned her head and said nothing. He looked like he was sulking... But Igor, who had already received the news and kept his mind, still keenly noticed that the girl quickly put her hand under the quilt, obviously holding something.

Really? He tightened his nerves and closed the door lightly with his backhand, but instead of approaching hastily, he stood still and kept a distance: "Arya, we need to talk."

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(end of chapter)