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Post by The Flint on Jun 2, 2011 9:12:16 GMT -5
"Lord Mors," said Brandon by way of welcome, "Pity seeing you again so soon... due to the circumstances."
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Post by House Dustin on Jun 2, 2011 9:18:17 GMT -5
Mors nodded. "What is the expression, something about only meeting for weddings and funerals?" He grimaced, "Anyway, it is dark news indeed and I come to Winterfell feeling that the news will not improve soon. The Stark words always seem appropriate."
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Post by The Flint on Jun 2, 2011 9:25:32 GMT -5
"It was a most foul murder," Brandon confirmed, "My grandson Danny was here, seeking to speak to Lord Stark about the Wildlings, when Stark stumbled into the great hall stabbed badly enough to bring down an auroch. Lady Anya slain as well, her stomach opened up with a blade. She lived for several minutes. Blamed an Umber messenger for the deed before she passed."
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Post by House Dustin on Jun 2, 2011 10:16:23 GMT -5
Mors shook his head in disgust. "Such cowards, assassins be." He looked at The Flint. "That doesn't sound like an Umber plot to me. Was Danny able to turn anything up?"
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Post by The Flint on Jun 2, 2011 10:41:16 GMT -5
"Well, he also reasons that it may not have been the Umbers. The Umber messenger was reported by servants to have already left the keep days before the killing happened. Now maybe he hide and wasn't detected, but who can say for certain? Also, neither Lady Anya nor Lord Stark had cuts on their arms. They didn't really defend themselves much at all. That suggests they knew their killer. And the knife-man, whomever he was, left a valyrian steel dagger imbeded into Stark's chest. We have the blade. it's well fashioned, and decorated as well. Not the common blade of a normal man, especially an Umber. And then to LEAVE the blade there afterwards. Well.. that is an expensive warning, if that was its purpose."
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Post by House Dustin on Jun 2, 2011 10:54:43 GMT -5
"So who, then? If it could be someone they knew, has Lady Stark noticed anyone missing?" Mors stroked at his beard. "Who... Doesn't have the feel of the Ironmen either. It's not their style, and besides, there has been no progeny yet so they have no useful claim. We can either look North or look South."
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Post by The Flint on Jun 2, 2011 10:57:04 GMT -5
Brandon shrugged, "One of my boys voiced the notion that perhaps one stabbed the other, and then was themselves stabbed. Whatever sordid reason that may have happened, it would have given cause for the lie. And Danny did find Lord Stark's dagger beneath the bed, with blood on the handle. More questions then answers."
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Post by House Dustin on Jun 2, 2011 11:47:29 GMT -5
"That's a troubling thought. Almost so troubling as how thin our Lord's family has become. An infant and a sister married out of the North are all that remain."
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Post by The Flint on Jun 2, 2011 11:52:58 GMT -5
"Indeed. It is a problem," Brandon said, "If something happens to the child, then we are in the most dire of straits. And of course, it encourages someone to make SURE something happens to him, not to mention the risk to be had from the normal course of infancy."
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Post by House Dustin on Jun 2, 2011 11:57:15 GMT -5
"Hmmm," Mors wondered. "It doesn't encourage the Ironmen yet. If the infant died now the sister's claim alone would not be strong enough for an Ironman to sit in Winterfell without the lords taking up arms. If she should become pregnant, that could change."
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Post by The Flint on Jun 2, 2011 12:09:15 GMT -5
"I am sure Greyjoy's son is working on that, and if he fails, his father is like to do the job for him." Flint replied, "They'll get her with child one way or the other, be sure of it."
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Post by House Dustin on Jun 2, 2011 12:11:08 GMT -5
"Aye," Mors grunted. "You mentioned wildlings? Just a few days past a watch post on my western frontier was near overrun by a relatively sizeable force of wildlings... 20 or so. We killed most and drove the rest off, but I was shocked at so many so far south."
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Post by The Flint on Jun 2, 2011 12:15:37 GMT -5
"Indeed. We've seen very curious behavior also. Children, wildling children, south of the Wall, and fleeing rapidly. We caught more then two dozen of them, none having seen even thirteen name-days yet. They are fleeing some force of men calling themselves Augers, who wear masks. The Wildlings tell all manner of stories about them, that they are sorcerers and worse. But for something so feared, I have never heard of such a thing until now, and I've spoken to many a Crow in his cups about snarks, grumpkins, Giants and Others."
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Post by House Dustin on Jun 5, 2011 23:25:01 GMT -5
"Well, these wildlings had nothing to say of that since none of them lived. Also there was nothing strange about them except the fact that they were so far south... And either so bold or so desperate to attack a stout post."
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Post by The Flint on Jun 6, 2011 8:44:18 GMT -5
"Queer indeed," Flint says.
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Hope you all are well and happy.
Feb 9, 2021 15:35:26 GMT -5
Hope you all are well and happy.
Feb 9, 2021 15:35:26 GMT -5