Words Never Spoken Her hand strokes over the stone face as the babe in her belly kicks against her side. She can hear Ned's footsteps behind her, each carefully taken so that he does not startle her and yet he does not announce his presence. "They did well." She says when he stops a few steps behind her, allowing her some space. "Though I wish he were not so serious, it looks so unlike him." Brandon's likeness is cold under her gloved hands with none of the heat that always radiated from his flesh present. "It was done by the same man that did the sculptures of Father and Lyanna." Ned says. "He knew Brandon for most of his life." "I know and he did truly well. I must write him with our gratitude.” Catelyn says, her mind wandering to how she is much to young to be here. A widow at thirty. After surviving two wars, her Lord Husband dies in a riding accident somewhere between Borrow Hall and Winterfell. Riding a horse not suited for such a journey, a wild horse for a wild lord. "Maester Ludwin is worried and wishes you would come inside." Ned says, standing still behind her. "It is to cold for you to stay here so long." "The babe keeps me warm. His Father's blood warms me, even if he will never know him." Catelyn replies. She had always been warmer when she carried her children and even more so now that summer is truly upon them. "Please. Cat." Ned whispers, her name leaving his lips in a plea she has not heard from him in years. "Robb and Arya wish to see you. They need you." "They need their Father, Ned. Robb is only a boy of two and ten and now he must become the Lord of Winterfell before he can even practice with a real sword." Catelyn thinks of her little brave boy that stood as still as stone as his Father was laid to ... ... middle of paper ... ...orners. As soon as they realized the extent of their feelings they had agreed that it was best for Ned to leave and take up his holdfast near the Long Lake. Both confident that distance would squash whatever feelings they might think they had. Unfortunately the distance did no such thing. “Cat.” He whispers. “We can’t.” She whispers pulling back from him. “We should go.” “Yes. Hopefully the children haven’t burned down the keep.” Ned says smiling a little, lighting up his usually solemn face and forcing Catelyn to fight harder against the temptation. “Don’t worry Ned, Sansa will make sure no such thing happens.” Catelyn tells him, picturing the quiet eight-year-old girl, who was lady before she was three, disciplining her brothers and cousins. Catelyn turns around to bid Brandon farewell before following Ned to find their little herd of children. The End.
Robby needed guidance and his older brother was not their to guide him so he did what
warmth. “On one side the air was cool, but on the other the fire thrust out a savage arm of
In the beginning of the story, William travels to the stables and chooses a new horse his name was Hosanna. Hosanna was a “blood red” stallion whose mother, is Williams old horse Sacramenta. Ellie, who has feelings for William, is betrothed to Gavin. The king decides to take part in the crusades and Gavin and William go along as knights. Not to far into their journey to Jerusalem ”the Holy Land” William and Gavin are met by a group of Sacrens. The Sacrens take the Christians horses and spare the Christians lives. Throughout the middle, The crusades continue, and Constable de Scabious is trying to get Ellie to marry him. William and Gavin conquer Jaffa as a new “headquarters”. In the end, the Sacrens attack Jaffa and fail. The Sacrens set up camp outside of Jaffa. The Sacren Sultan requested a real battle in the field outside the city and gave the Christians ten horses to make the battle fair. The king accepted the offer and in the ten horses one was Hosanna. The battle happened the next day and there was no definite winner because when the king was riding Hosanna, The horse was shot by an arrow. As one can see, the problem is finally solved when the Christians an Muslims come together to save
In King’s Landing, Sansa (daughter of Eddard and Catelyn Stark) is betrothed to King Robert's son Joffrey, the heir to the throne. Joffrey takes Sansa out for a picnic, witnessing Arya and Mycah play sword fighting. When Joffrey sees Mycah fencing with a...
The House Stark of Winterfell rules over the North. The family is known for the values of tradition, honor, and ritual. Honor is one of the most known qualities of the Starks as Lord Varys says to Ned, “‘You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Offtimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.’ He glanced around the cell. ‘When I see what honesty and honor have won you, I understand why’” (529). Ned has his sense of duty ingrained into his character. In the first episode of season one Ned is instantly proved as a standup character when he is teaching his son Bran a lesson, “The
“Very well. May I live in this castle till the end of my days or until I find someplace better?”
“Yes actually.” A deep sigh erupted from Erik like a ballon leaking air. He collapsed into a nearby
His grip flexed and twisted on the handle of his sword as he reminded himself that he at the very least needed to the Princess alive until he had turned her in. She went on as he expected her to. Lines that he'd imagined a thousand times over the last few years, listening to them in his mind again and again, and taking a measure of joy in just how he pictured it would all go. And of course after having served under her for so long his prediction was rather accurate. She began with begging and pleading veiled as pleasantries and kindness, with offers to restore everything that she'd stripped from him that day years ago, and ending with such a haughty air as if she thought her offer would assuredly make up for so many years of pain and mockery and loss. She was so desperate to live but that damned false pride of hers would be her undoing.
...ned. She will stay herself, “as the shape-changing magic of dreams whispers back into the roar of the ocean” (Cleave 259). It is a foreshadowing of her final decision. She does not choose to flee or fight, but instead to surrender herself for the sake of Charlie, because he is young and will continue the dream for her.
However, there are factors out of her control that could stop her hopes from becoming a reality. In her speech she says to Hrothgar: “You have taken as son, so many have told me, This hardy hero[Beowulf]”(38). In her anxiety she mentions this because the strong bond or comitatus between Beowulf and Hrothgar endangers her children. Beowulf is that much closer to the Scylding throne than even her children. It can be inferred that she has thought about in depth about the precarity of the situation with her children very seriously.
“Even if the boy does live, he’ll be a cripple. Worse than a cripple. A grotesque. Give me a good clean death.” The “instead” that follows Jaime’s statement in the first book of the A Song of Ice and Fire series is silent, but strongly implied. His younger brother Tyrion, the dwarf, disagrees: “Speaking for the grotesques [...] I beg to differ. Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.” Within these two lines, multiple issues arise, most importantly as far as this text is concerned, the links between the construction of masculine identity and the idea of bodily wholeness. From the very start of the series, Martin calls upon a fairly traditional binary of embodied masculine identities. On the one side, the strong and
Fourteen years before the story starts, the Targaryens ruled Westeros subsequent to having vanquished the Seven Kingdoms with the force of their monsters. At the point when the frantic lord, Aerys Targaryen, assaulted Lyanna Stark, killed her sibling, and endeavored to kill their associates, the Starks, Baratheons, and Arryns revolted and toppled the ruler. A short time later, Robert Baratheon was delegated ruler and Jon Arryn was named the "Lord's Hand." Meanwhile, Ned Stark came back to Winterfell, in the north, the seat of their energy and where A Game of Thrones starts. Ruler Eddard (Ned) Stark of Winterfell is a capable man who satisfies the expressions of his family: "winter is coming."
Their illicit relationship goes on for nearly two decades without any problems, but, while the royal family is visiting the Stark family, Bran Stark, a young boy of ten, catches the two having sex in an old tower. Whilst attempting escape, Bran is caught by Jaime and calmly pushed out of the tower’s window nearly to his death with the words, “the things I do for love.” Cersei and Jaime later hire an assassin to finish Bran off to stop him from telling anyone of their
“Well, I suppose you shouldn't give up hope. I'd advise you to ply your charms, but as Ned would say, it's like asking a plow horse to run at Santa Anita.”
"I pray he does," Tyrion Lannister replied. "If he forgets, be a good dog and remind him." He glanced around the courtyard. "Do you know where I might find my brother?"