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Lommy Greenhands Narrative

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The ground was hard as ever and the thin blanket I laid on only made it feel more cold. The soft snores of men and boys alike fills my ears, I watch as the red comet passes us by ever so slowly. I wonder if it will ever fade into the black night but I’m sure it won’t since it's so bright. The Bull named it, “The Red Sword” said it is red-hot from the forge. To me, it was not a new sword for a knight to hold and stain it with the blood of others, no. It was my Lord’s father sword, “Ice”. The Valyrian steel greatsword rippled with black to show all the folding it had been through. The same sword that Ser Ilyn Payne had used to behead my father. Even if Yoren made me look away, I can see hear the crowd cheering and calling my father a traitor. …show more content…

Lommy Greenhands has given me the name for my head does feel lumpy. Yoren had cut my hair with his dagger in some alley he dragged me to when the deed of my father's death was done. “I’m taking men and boys from the city,” he said even called me a boy as well. Told me that I will be known as Arry the orphan boy until I return to Winterfell and leaving King’s Landing would be easy. True enough he was right, leaving King’s Landing was simple, all he had to do was call some guard by name and he let us pass. No one looked at me. They were looking for a highborn girl with long hair and a crying red face who was daughter of the Hand not some boy with uneven hair. I had wished for the Rush to flood the whole city, hoping it would kill King joffrey and his mother Cersei but Sansa was still in the city and… Father once said, “Let me tell you something about wolves, child. When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives. Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths. So if you must hate, Arya, hate those who would truly do us

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