The king on the Great Wall

"We have to keep an eye on him."

"It's up to you, but I'd rather have a good look at you," said James, who had no interest in that. "Come here, let me..."

"There's a sound from below!" Cersei suddenly pushed her brother's shoulder to stop his next move, and approached the window again.

"what happened?"

James also moved his head: in the old inner courtyard below, the night watchman in black was still there, but there was a child sitting on the wall beside him, who looked like someone from the Stark family, but I forgot my name.

The night watchman was yelling at the child, as if trying to persuade the child to come down, but instead of leaving the top of the wall, the boy stood up, stretched his arms and strode his legs like walking a tightrope towards the southeast. After a while, the worried night watchman also left the old inner courtyard, probably going around to the other side to chase after him.

"It's all gone, can you rest assured?"

"Relax?" Cersei looked away from the window, her face still serious: "How can I be relieved? Duke Ed has never interfered in the affairs of the south, never. Let me tell you, he must deal with us, otherwise why leave him Power center?"

"You think too much purely because of a guilty conscience. There are many reasons for him to leave the northern border, such as sense of responsibility, sense of honor, unable to refuse his good brother Robert, or wanting to be famous in history for a generation, or their husband and wife are at odds, or even There are a few of them, maybe I just want to find a warm place to live for a while to recuperate."

"His wife is Mrs. Arryn's sister. It's rare that Lysa didn't come here to welcome us with her accusation."

"You think too much. Lady Arryn is just a frightened cow."

Cersei turned her head and glared at James: "This cow shared the bed with Jon Arryn."

A cow sleeps with a cow, James thought, not hiding his disdain. "If she knew, she would have complained to Robert before she left King's Landing."

"When he just decided to send her useless son to Casterly Rock as an adopted son? I don't think so. She also knew that her son would become a hostage and threatened her not to tell the truth. Now go back When we arrive at Eagle's Nest City, I'm afraid she will become more courageous."

"Mothers are all the same. I always think childbirth burns your brains. You are all crazy." James almost forgot what his own mother looked like. He smiled bitterly, saying the word as if it was a curse, "No matter what she knows, or thinks she knows, she has no proof anyway." He paused for a moment, "Does she have any?"

"Tell me, what evidence do you think the king will need?" Even in the arms of her lover, Cersei couldn't hide her anger: "He doesn't love me at all!"

"Good sister, whose fault is this?"

"You are as blind as Robert!"

"If you mean I agree with him, you're right," "I see Eddard Stark as a man who would rather die than betray the king."

"He's betrayed a king, don't you forget? I don't deny his loyalty to Robert, but what if Robert dies and Jo takes the throne? And the sooner Robert dies, the safer we are. My husband recently More restless, having Stark by his side will only make things worse. He still loves his dead 16 year old girl, who knows when he'll throw me in for a new Lyanna side?"

"Don't worry about the future, think more about the happiness in front of you."

"Stop talking like that!" the woman scolded.

The house fell silent, and then, the shouts of the night watchman came from outside the window.

……

"My dear sister, I'm tired of hearing all these spoilers." The Kingslayer pushed the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms against the wall.

"Damn, the walls are cold—"

"What's going on again, James, stop and go see what's going on!" Cersei hurriedly pushed her brother away, commanding nervously.

"Damn it." The Kingslayer walked towards the window angrily, vowing to make the night watchman look good when he had the chance.

He looked under the first fort, and saw that the man in black who had been training underneath had returned to his spot, raising his head and waving to himself: "Come down quickly, it's too dangerous!"

What the hell?A little soldier, dare to point fingers at himself?

The Kingslayer was baffled by this nonsensical sentence, hesitated for a moment and didn't know how to respond, and then quickly realized: This is not talking to himself, the brat was climbing the fort before!

He stuck his head out of the window, searched around the wall by the window, and finally found the target - the boy who was on the top of the old inner courtyard wall below just a moment ago, was on the gargoyle outside the wall of his own floor, Swing from one to the other, approaching your own window!

James was taken aback, Cersei was still inside the house, both of them were disheveled and couldn't be seen!

"What are you doing there? Get down!"

The boy was about to perform a few tricks on the nagging night watchman on the ground who kept urging him to go down to shut him up. He had no way or expected that there would be someone in the abandoned castle, when James' face suddenly appeared He came out of the window and looked at him. He met his eyes. He lost his balance in shock, his waving hands failed to grasp anything, and he screamed and fell from the outer wall of the first fort.

"Hey--"

James hadn't expected that things would develop like this at all, and it was too late to reach out to grab it, so he stood in front of the window with his mouth half open.Looking at the thin figure of the boy falling to the ground, the man suddenly remembered his name.

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Chapter 25

"What happened?" Cersei heard the boy's scream, her eyes widening in panic.

"He fell." James turned around suddenly from the window, picked up the windbreaker and put it on quickly, "Hurry up, we have to go down."

"Who fell?"

"Bran Stark, Duke Ed's second son!"

"Damn it," Cersei said in a panic, "has he seen us?"

"No, but don't take it lightly, hurry up, I have to go down and stop that night watchman first!"

***

Half a minute ago, when Iger separated from two passing guards and returned to the training ground in the old inner courtyard, Bran had already climbed from the roof of the guard room to the outer wall of the first fort, following the familiar "route" Climb horizontally in the direction of the ruined tower.The night watchman knew he couldn't stop the boy, so he yelled loudly on purpose... not in the hope that Bran would be obedient, but in the hope that the couple in the first castle would respond in time.

The first half of the plan was successful, but things did not go in the expected direction. He could see clearly in the old inner courtyard: James didn't push Bran down this time, but just emerged from the window , The boy fell down in fright.

……

After the muffled sound of a rag bag falling to the ground, the boy lay quietly on the ground with his eyes closed, motionless. The corn in his pocket that was intended to be brought to the top of the ruined tower to feed the crows was scattered all over the ground. Satire.

Iger landed beside the boy in a daze, his mind was in a mess.Instinctively let him know that he should call someone for rescue immediately, but the Lannister siblings are still in the first castle, if their adultery is broken by the people who come to rescue, his trip to leave the Great Wall will be completely ruined... What's more troublesome is that not only did the busy work not stop Bran from falling, but he also involved himself in the matter. When the boy fell, he was yelling at him. Much, or did James scare the boy into taking much?

A soldier of the night watchman who caused the nephew of the chief ranger and the second son of Duke Stark to fall off the first castle. After returning to the Great Wall, he still wants to leave?Iger shuddered thinking about it.

The sound of footsteps came, and James ran out of the entrance of the first castle like a [-]-meter sprint, and ran to Bran, leaning over to check the boy's breathing and heartbeat.After a while, he stood up, his eyes were no longer relaxed and casual, but frighteningly shining.

The kingslayer grabbed Iger by the collar, and if it wasn't for the fact that the height difference between the two was not too big, he might have lifted him from the ground. The proud and cynical Lannister said in a trembling tone: "Tilly Ang said, you are the most flexible soldier he has ever seen, then you should understand that this kid fell down by himself, this is good for you and me, understand what I mean!"

Fall off by yourself?The traveler also calmed down at this time, and quickly understood what the other party meant. That's right, there was no fourth person who witnessed the whole accident. If Bran fell by himself, at least until the boy woke up, he didn't have to worry about who was responsible. bigger.

But he quickly realized that he can't accuse the other party, but he can't blame the other party alone: ​​"Understood... Yes, he fell by himself, but I'm afraid no one will believe what I say as a soldier!"

James glanced at him fiercely, seeing that Iger had no intention of compromising, he had no choice but to back down: "I can testify to you, but I can't involve me...Her Majesty the Queen!"

Iger nodded quickly: "When... Of course, Her Majesty the Queen has nothing to do with this matter."

On weekdays, James might not even bother to talk to Iger, a night watchman soldier, but today he encountered him unavoidably when he was looking for a venue, and now they together contributed to Bran Stark's fall. It was impossible not to talk.

They colluded quickly and simply, and after some communication, Cersei walked out of the high castle nervously, and Iger left the old inner courtyard to call for someone.

***

No member of the Stark family had any accidents after the War of the Reavers, and Winterfell fell into chaos that had not been seen in many years. The guards hurriedly carried the boy back to the main castle on a stretcher and notified Mrs. Stark and Ruth. Wen Xueshi, all people with medical skills, including the accompanying doctors from King's Landing, participated in the rescue.

No one came out of the room until the king's hunting party returned at night.

At night, Bran's little wolf howled outside the window, and the whole Winterfell could hear its call to the little master, while Iger was lying on the bed in his room, tossing and turning.

Bran's love to climb the wall is well known, and almost every Winterfell resident has been frightened for this bear child. Today's fall was a big trouble for James and Iger involved in it, but For the rest of the city, it was nothing more than a fear finally becoming a reality, an accident.

Although Iger was nervous to death, in fact, no one suspected this matter on him, a night watchman.It wasn't until Eddard Stark returned to Winterfell that the head of the family remembered to call the ranger who first discovered his son's fall to ask for details... There were two guards who talked to Edgar and Jaime Lannister According to the testimony of the three, the guardian of the northern border quickly frowned and waved him back to the house.

It seemed that Bran's fall didn't bother him at all, but things were not that simple.Iger is really a little scared now-Bran's fateful fall today made him start to doubt his life.

He is a thorough materialist, insisting that everything in the world can be explained by science... The science here refers to the division of disciplines and systematic knowledge-he believes that even the magic of the White Walkers and the Lord of Light can also be explained. It must be operating according to some kind of rule system that he does not understand for the time being. In time, he will be able to grasp more information about it, so as to understand and even use this unknown force.

But after doing a lot of operations in the past few days, Bran still fell at the same time and place as in the original plot. Is this a coincidence, or is there some kind of force pushing the plot along the original line?

……

Iger forced himself to stop thinking about this unknown and powerful existence, because he still has more real troubles than the "existence in the dark"-although he has not, at least not been publicly suspected of causing Bran to fall, but actually The connection with the plot can no longer be escaped: if the story continues, when the unknown killer breaks into Bran's room and tries to give the boy "mercy", the Stark family will definitely have doubts about the child's fall. .

And once the investigation started, I, the night watchman who insisted on doing daily training in the remote old inner courtyard when I was a guest in Winterfell, and who was the first to discover Bran falling from the building, would definitely be remembered.At that time, he had probably left the Great Wall with the dwarf. Although Tyrion and Bran's falling from the building had nothing to do with the assassination, the Lannister label on him could not be removed... By that time, If he is judged by the Stark family as an enemy of the Lannister camp because of this, he will really jump into the Yellow River, no, the Trident River will not be washed away.

A night watchman who dared to conspire with Lannister to murder a Stark.As long as the first family in the north operates a little bit, wouldn't it be easy for the commander-in-chief of the night watchman to recall himself who had left the Great Wall and even declare himself a deserter?

On the other hand, the Lannister family will definitely not trouble themselves?With Cersei's viciousness and narrow-mindedness, a night watchman who seems to know her relationship with James and refuses to take the blame obediently, stays on the Great Wall dishonestly and gets close to the dwarf brother she hates the most. Enough to kill her.

It's just not human inside and out.

The self who was originally dissociated from the story of Game of Thrones, the first time he actively tried to interfere with the plot, he didn't make a fuss with a fox.

Iger was extremely annoyed, but the matter has come to this point, and it is reasonable to find a solution.What can he do now to break through this awkward situation?

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Chapter 26 Risk and Violence

It is easy to take it for granted that Iger has made similar mistakes again and again after traveling to this world.

Whether it was the initial encounter with the White Walkers who had a wrong impression of the number of enemies and nearly died, or the attempt to interfere with an important plot that failed and got into trouble, it was all because of the same problem.He first believed that James and Cersei would not dare to enter the First Fort to have an affair when there were people in the old inner courtyard. After being ignored, he thought that Bran would walk to the bottom of the First Fort and climb up... As a result, both parties unceremoniously used The action slapped the face, and the tragedy could not be avoided in the end.

After racking his brains for most of the night, Iger still couldn't think of a good way to get out of the predicament in the future. He forced himself to close his eyes, and he was in a daze. He was exhausted physically and mentally, and he didn't even know when he would enter the dreamland. Know.

Sleep is always the best rest. When the first ray of morning light shone through the small lattice window into the traveler's room the next morning, he opened his eyes and lay on the bed for a minute. A bold idea suddenly popped up in his mind.

Since you can't stay out of the plot, why don't you just hide?

***

In the middle of the night of insomnia last night, Iger spent half of his time thinking about how to prevent Bran from being assassinated, and the other half was thinking about how to get rid of the relationship if the assassination still happened, but no matter which way he got results, the reason is very simple ——When he was thinking of an idea, he unconsciously imposed a harsh condition on himself: don't involve himself in it.

Who ordered the assassin who held the Valyrian steel dagger to kill Bran? The original author only vaguely gave the object of suspicion, and the screenwriter did not give a definite answer. On the thousandth floor, some thought it was Cersei who was trying to silence her, some thought it was Joffrey who was holding a grudge after being slapped by his uncle, and even some were so whimsical that they thought it was Littlefinger who was desperately trying to create chaos in King's Landing... The supporters of each point of view have a lot of seemingly convincing evidence and reasons, making it impossible for Iger to make a positive judgment.

It is not clear who the assassin is, who was sent when, and how to stop it quietly?

It is very difficult to stop the assassination, and it is even more impossible to get rid of the relationship afterwards. The reason is simple: the move of the training ground to the old inner courtyard was not hidden from outsiders at all, and the identity of "first discovered" Bran's fall is well known. Not to mention that this accident was indeed directly related to me-since no one is innocent, how can we talk about clearing the relationship?

With a lot of difficulties in front of you, you still put shackles and restrictions on your thinking, and you want to hide in the dark and let things pass quietly without anyone thinking of you. Isn't it fantastic?

If so, just join in!

Iger is usually a rational and calm person, but he is actually quite stubborn and unbelieving in his bones. He doesn't like to be troubled, but he is not afraid of trouble when trouble is imminent.If you can neither separate the relationship nor prevent Bran from being assassinated by your own strength, then abandon all redundant conditions-use the simplest and rude way to break the situation, and directly tell the Stark family that someone is going to assassinate Bran, what will happen?

Following this line of thought, the first thing he thought of was to leave a note anonymously to the Stark family, but once the assassination happened, he would still be in trouble. If he wanted to avoid being suspected and targeted, he had better act as an absolute Innocent and unsuspecting character: messenger.

Go directly to the members of the Stark family and inform Bran of the possible assassination.

Who should I turn to? The first thing Iger thought of was Jon Snow, whom I had just met, but he had no choice but to give up when he thought that this guy was still just a child and his reliability was doubtful.Then, there was only one member of the wolf family that he knew and had the opportunity to meet.

As for the object of the report... After thinking for a while, Iger chose Joffrey.The prince himself is the most suspicious, and he was suspected by Tyrion in the original book. Without mentioning these things, what the traverser considers is that his identity is the most sensitive but will not involve himself—Joffrey’s surname is Baratheon, he He was, at least for now, in the eyes of the Starks, King Robert's son.

A child and the future ruler of the Seven Kingdoms learned that he wanted Bran to die. No matter how angry Ed was, he would never erupt immediately. Even if he erupted, it would be difficult to involve Tilly who was about to take him away from the Great Wall. Ang... In order to leave that dangerous and difficult ghost place, Iger has already ignored everything.

If there is really some weird existence in the dark to maintain the development of the plot, he would like to see: this time he is willing to take the risk to directly intervene, how can you deal with me?

***

Bran's fall delayed the king's return to King's Landing. Robert's return to King's Landing was to take away Ed, the new Prime Minister, and now his son stumbled and fell, and his life and death were uncertain. He planned to leave, and he and his good brother guarded the unconscious brat all night.

Out of rationality, Iger waited patiently for a day before carefully approaching the chief who hadn't spoken for several days, Chief Ranger Benjen Stark.

……

"Is there something wrong?" The support requested from the brother has not yet arrived, and a nephew is lying on the bed half dead. This Stark looks tired and worried.

"My lord, I have something, I don't know whether I should say it..."

"Since you stepped into the door, you must have reached a conclusion, so speak quickly."

"This matter involves a certain important person. I dare to ask him to ensure my safety."

Bunyan looked up at the traverser suspiciously, and nodded impatiently: "I promise, tell me."

"It's about your lord's nephew, Bran." Iger began to tell the story according to the organized language, and suddenly felt a bit like a slanderous courtier, for no other reason, and everything that followed was all fabricated by him: "That day He fell while climbing the wall, and I was the first to discover it when I was competing with Sir James not far away, so when I overheard someone talking about this this morning, I subconsciously stayed. Be mindful."

"Yeah." Bunyan nodded to show he was listening.

"It was Prince Joffrey who spoke at the time, and a knight in armor I didn't know. The knight said that even if Bran recovers, he will not be able to walk for the rest of his life. He might as well die."

The chief ranger frowned, and this was true in a sense: In this cruel and cold world, the life of the disabled will undoubtedly be difficult and painful, as can be seen from Tyrion's growth history.But it's okay to think about this kind of thought in your heart, but speaking it out is a great disrespect to the owner of Winterfell City... Who is so arrogant?

Well, in fact, it doesn't matter who you are, you can't just go after someone else's casual remarks in private.Benyan Stark looked at the most intelligent ranger under him, and understood that the other party could not come to him to make a small report just because of this sentence, and there must be other follow-up developments.

"Prince Joffrey agreed with the knight's words. Originally, the matter ended here, and I was ready to leave, but what His Royal Highness said next made me vigilant." Iger pretended to be nervous and continued: "The prince said , he is going to give Bran Stark 'mercy' and relieve him of the pain after waking up."

"Mercy." Bunyan frowned even tighter: "What exactly did he say at the time?"

"He said, 'Like the Braavosi people, give the Stark boy relief'." Iger vividly described to the chief ranger that this scene and words were completely interpreted in his mind, "If That's all, the prince also took out a dagger... I didn't see what it was. I was behind a haystack and could only listen with my ears-he introduced to the knight, "This is a dagger. A dagger of Valyrian steel that I took out of my father's armory, with a hilt of dragonbone fit for a Stark boy'."

"continue."

"The next words, because the two men walked away, I can't hear clearly, but what is certain is that the prince sent the knight to find a mercenary, and gave him the Valyrian steel dagger. This matter." Iger said vaguely, "I personally feel that this may be just a child bragging, but after all, it is of great importance. I thought twice and decided to tell the adults about it. Even if it is just a joke, but to Master Bran's room It's not a big trouble to send more guards."

Bunyan pondered for a while with a solemn expression, not knowing what was going on in his mind, stared at Iger after a while and said, "Do you know what you are doing?"