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[CASTLE BLACK]
[JON SNOW is parrying with OLLY. JON puts his sword to Olly's neck.]
"Get your shield up."
"It's too heavy."
"If it wasn't heavy it wouldn't stop a sword, now get it up."
[JON knocks OLLY into the ground then helps him up.]
"Come. Try it again. Drive at me. Keep your shield up. Or I'll ring your head like a bell."
"You're a good teacher. Harsh but not unkind" Lyanna complimented with a smile.
"I had a good teacher" Jon smiled back.
[SAM and GILLY are watching them parry from afar.]
"Shouldn't you be training, too?"
"Well, I'm hardly a new recruit. How many brothers can say they've killed a white walker and a Thenn? I might be the first in history!"
"A man still needs to keep his skills sharp" Jaime rolled his eyes. He was easily the best in his generation and a few before and after his generation, but he knew if he didn't practice and train he'd lose his touch.
[SER ALLISER walks by.]
"These men need a firm hand. Always have. They're poachers and thieves. Not soldiers."
[He gives SAM and GILLY a look before he walks away.]
"That one hates me."
"That one hates everyone" Lyanna rolled her eyes.
"If Ser Alliser is chosen as the new Lord Commander... he hates the wildlings.
[SAM looks at GILLY'S baby.]
"All the wildlings."
"Don't let them send us away."
"I don't think 'sending away' is what he'd do" Arya muttered angrily. Ser Alliser was not the best man. He would kill Gilly and her baby.
"It's not a sure thing. Ser Denys Mallister has commanded the Shadow Tower for 20 years, and people say he's a good man. He's running against Ser Alliser-"
"He rambles a lot" Olenna clicked her tongue.
"He's nervous, grandmother," Margaery said with a half smile.
[Cut back to JON and OLLY parrying. OLLY is on the offensive. JON turns and sees MELISANDRE waiting.]
"Oh great she's there" Renly muttered in disgust.
[ELEVATOR - THE WALL]
"You're not cold, my lady?"
"Never. The Lord's fire lives within me, Jon Snow."
[She takes his hand to her face.]
"Feel."
[Jon feels her face.]
"Are you a virgin?"
"Get away from him you whore!" Lyanna screeched, making Jon and Daenerys cringe. The woman apologised to them both but still glared daggers at Melisandre on the Wall.
[THE WALL]
"Your grace. The Bastard of Winterfell."
"I'm very sure that matters very little now" Jon muttered, smiling at Melisandre. That Jon was a brother of the Watch now. That's all that mattered.
[JON bows to STANNIS. STANNIS motions for him to get up.]
"You know who rules at Winterfell now?"
"Roose Bolton."
"The traitor who plunged a dagger into Robb Stark's heart. Don't you want to avenge him?"
"I want a great many things, your grace. But I'm a sworn brother of the Night's Watch now."
"I've been talking to your sworn brothers. Many of them love you."
"That's because he's a likeable guy!" Arya exclaimed.
"Many don't."
Arya said words that made her mother screech at her.
"You were seen taking the body of a wildling girl north of the Wall. Why?"
"It's where she belonged."
"Some of the Night's Watch feel you have too much affection for the wildlings."
"They were born on the wrong side of the wall. That doesn't make them monsters."
"He's impressed you" Robert noted, seeing the glint in his brother's future self's eyes.
"He is like his father." Stannis muttered in reply.
"No matter. I shall take back the North from the thieves who stole it. Tywin Lannister is dead. He can't protect them now. I shall mount Roose Bolton's head on a spike. But if I'm to take Winterfell I'll need more men."
"The Night's Watch are sworn to play no part in the war of the realm," Rickard said sternly.
"The men of the Night's Watch are sworn to play no part-"
"Good lad" Rickard smirked.
"I'm not talking about the damn Night's Watch. I'm talking about the wildlings."
"Good luck making them follow you" snorted Brandon the Elder.
"Some might" Ned reasoned. "If given the right incentive."
"You must be blind to not have seen what I saw, Ned."
"And you blind not have seen what I'd seen."
The two brothers stared at one another before sighing and looking away.
"If they swear to follow me, I'll pardon them. We'll take Winterfell. Once the North is won, I'll declare them citizens of the realm. I'll give them land to live on."
"Good offer..." Ned said thoughtfully.
"I'll offer them their lives and their freedom if Mance kneels before me and swears his loyalty."
"There's that deal gone" Brandon muttered.
"I don't think that's likely."
"You admire him, don't you?"
"I respect him."
"He likes you. Convince him to bend the knee..."
"Your grace...
"...or he burns."
"Always with the burning" Renly sighed. "At least now the pyre would heat the men North."
"This is not a joke, Renly," Robert said sternly.
"And everything else is?" Renly raised a brow.
The King snorted and shook his head.
[COUNTRYSIDE-CARRIAGE]
"You told Lord Royce we were going to the Fingers."
"So Robyn is with Yohn now" Jon Arryn whispered. A good man, trusted and harsh. Just what Robyn would need to straighten up.
"But we're heading west. If he wanted to betray us, he already would have."
"Lord Royce may be as honourable as he thinks he is, but he's not alone in that castle. Do you trust all those knights and ladies, stable boys and serving girls?"
"No. Do you trust the carriage driver or the knights escorting us?"
"No. But I pay them well, and they've seen what happens to men who disappoint me.'
Catelyn frowned. She did not know how to feel about this. On the one hand, the distrusting nature would come in handy for Sansa down the line. But what would her prolonged exposure to Baelish make her? Another opportunistic backstabber?
"So where are we going? To a land where you trust everyone?"
"To a land so far from here, even Cersei Lannister can't get her hands on you."
"Essos?" Sansa questioned. Maybe she'll run into Arya there. It would be nice...