Chapter 294: End of the eting
Chapter 294: End of the eting
Dreadfort, Bolton Lands
POV of Doric Bolton
"We’ll leave by the end of the week," Doric said and then continued. "Now, Tyrion. Tell
about the mass migration from Kings Landing and Gulltown."
"It’s... going slowly." Tyrion said, "Even if these people have nothing to their na, they’re still afraid of venturing into the unknown lands. So far, we’ve only been able to convince so 10,000 n and won to co to the North to live in the New Gift. The ships from the Royal Fleet had been loaded with these people and had been sent up North. They’ll arrive within a month or so. That number should also increase once the others see that more and more people are migrating up North."
"I see." He said, "Does anyone else have anything important to report?"
Lyra got up from her chair, and he nodded at her to speak.
"The King and his entourage have finally reached King’s Landing." She said, "Lady Sansa and Lady Stark went there along with Ser Rodrick Cassel and 100 Stark guards. I heard that so kind of altercation happened between Lady Sansa and Prince Joffrey on the way to King’s Landing. Prince Joffrey beca angry, and Stark guards moved to protect Lady Sansa. One of them grabbed Prince Joffrey’s hand as it raised to strike Lady Sansa. For this, the Queen had that guard’s weapon hand cut off."
Of course, "Lady Sansa" Lyra was referring to here wasn’t the genuine Sansa. It was the Imposter Mannequin who had taken Sansa’s place. The genuine Sansa was currently training under his aunt as Doric’s bastard half-sister.
But very few people were aware of Project Gemini, and even so in this room were unaware of it. Therefore, when Lyra ntioned the imposter mannequin in her reports, she had to refer to it as genuine Sansa.
On the other hand, Doric had told the mbers of the Small Council that the person training under his aunt wasn’t really his half-sister. However, many still didn’t know her identity and assud she was simply soone Doric had recruited for protection.
After all, they couldn’t possibly believe Sansa was in King’s Landing while simultaneously being here.
"How did the Starks react to the Queen’s attitude?" Doric asked Lyra.
"The tense atmosphere between the Lannisters and the Starks has beco even more fragile at that point. Once the Starks reached King’s Landing, Lady Stark didn’t allow Sansa to go anywhere without at least four guards on her side all the ti."
"This does not bode well." Tyrion said, "My sister is a vengeful beast. Once she sets her eyes on soone, she won’t stop until she has utterly ruined them. I don’t think that Starks will have a good ti at King’s Landing."
"Moving on." Lyra said, "King Robert Baratheon has started yet another Tourney as soon as he returned to King’s Landing. For the betrothal of his son, Prince Joffrey Baratheon, and Lady Sansa Stark. Will you be sending anyone for this Tourney, my lord?" She said while looking toward Varko.
Doric scoffed. "As if the King needs any reason to host a tourney. And yes. Varko can easily participate in the lee and then return before the ships reach Hardho. Are you interested, Varko? What is the prize money this ti, by the way?"
"20,000 gold dragons for the lee champion," Lyra said.
"So extra gold will not hurt," Varko said, already having earned more than 200,000 gold dragons in all the lee competitions he has won so far.
He wanted to ask Ygritte if she was interested in the archery competition, but the Queen hated him and knew that Ygritte was his lover. She might try sothing exceedingly foolish to pay him back for her humiliation, for which Doric would have to kill her and make an example out of her.
He would rather not do that, so he didn’t ask her anything. "Any other news?" he asked.
"Only rumors about the next Hand of the King," Lyra said.
"Let
guess. Stannis?"
With how much Robert disliked Tywin Lannister, there was no way he would make old Lannister his hand anyti soon. And truth be told, after Lord Arryn died and Lord Stark rejected the offer, the King doesn’t really have any good choice left.
Lyra nodded, "It seems Lord Stannis is going to be the next Hand of the King." She said, "Though I’m sure that the King plans to take as long as possible to hand over that position to his brother."
"No doubt about that, King really doesn’t want to give Stannis this task, but he knows he has no other choice," Doric said and gestured with his hand for Lyra to continue.
Lyra nodded, "One last thing. Daenerys Targaryen is set to marry Khal Drogo in short order. Should we do sothing about that?"
Although it wasn’t very clear, Doric could understand the aning in Lyra’s tone.
Daenerys Targaryen was one of two existing participants in the Gemini Project. The real Daenerys Targaryen currently lives in a house in Braavos.
Living in the house with the red door, where she had lived as a child, was one of Daenerys’s conditions for the Gemini Project. This was a simple matter for Doric, and he had Lyra purchase the house in his na at his behest.
Currently, all of Daenerys’ needs were t by Doric’s treasury, and all Daenerys did outside of his everyday daily life was regularly watch Imposter Mannequin’s mories and see what his life would have been like if he hadn’t accepted Doric’s offer.
anwhile, Sansa was also regularly watching the mories of her mannequin replacent.
Doric wanted them to know what their lives would be like if he didn’t help them.
What Lyra really wanted to ask here was whether Doric wanted Imposter Mannequin to continue behaving like Daenerys and keep up with this marriage, or whether Doric wanted it to act differently.
"No. Let the beggar prince dig his own grave. If he’s naive enough to think he can control Khal Draco and bring his Dothraki army to Westeros, then he deserves what he gets." He said.
The Imposter Mannequin he used for Daenerys in Project Gemini had perford the ultimate cloning ritual with Daenerys Targaryen. Frankly, Doric had to use quite expensive and rare materials for this.
But if the information he had gathered about the Imposter Mannequin was correct, the mannequin currently replacing Daenerys was 100% identical to her.
And Doric wondered if this mannequin could hatch dragon eggs like a Targaryen.
"Does anyone have anything else to add?" Doric asked when Lyra didn’t say anything for a while.
Lyra shook her head, and the others likewise shook their heads after Lyra.
Doric got up from his chair and said. "This eting is over then. You’re dismissed."
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