Ygritte

"My name is Ygritte, I'm thirteen name days old." Ygritte told him again.

"Uh huh." Bjorn just nodded dumbly at that and thought to himself 'If she's the same one that was the lover of Jon Snow, then there is still five years to start of the story. That's good to know. Even though I'm a Free Folk, I should get my name out there in the next five years so that people would rally behind me.'

"What's with that dumb response?" Ygritte asked him.

Snapping out of his thoughts, he asked her "So, what did you want to know?"

"I asked you what are you doing?" She asked again.

"I'm separating the antlers for crafting." He replied.

"What are you gonna craft?" She asked again.

"Arrow heads and spear tips." Saying so, he carefully started to dismember the antlers and separated it from the skull.

"So, Ygritte, are you still going go keep silence about your clan?" Bjorn asked as he started to put away the antlers into his makeshift backpack.

"...." She was silent. Shaking his head, he went towards the deer and started to skin. Placing it's skin on top of a large rock, he started to butcher the deer to the bone.

He separated the tendons, meat and bones from the legs, and kept the ribs as butchered.

Taking a large leaf, he placed the meat on it and rolled it up, he did the same thing until he ran out of meat. Placing those rolls inside his backpack, he tied up the bones with ropes and placed it inside the backpack along with the tendons.

Taking the backpack on his back and placing his swords on his hips, he moved towards Ygritte and said with a smile "Until you are ready to point me towards your clan for trade, you'll be living with me."

He unbounded her from the tree and made her walk in front of him and he followed behind her. He made her move in the direction he wanted and after circling around the forest for some time he reached his cave.

"Sit down on the ground." Saying so he tied her to a near by tree at ground level and went inside the cave and using the bones from the deer he made a chest and placed all his weapons except for his two short swords and buried in inside the cave.

Going out of the cave with the meat he hunted, he started preparation for grilling the meat. First he gathered the branches and stones, after placing the stones in circular shape, he started to place the branches inside it. After that, he took out his swords and started to rub it together making friction, which produced sparks that lit up the dry leaves he placed inside the woods.

As the fire started he placed two large stones as stands and placed another cleaned large slab over it.

When the top slab started to heat up, he placed lean meats over it and waited for it to be cooked.

While waiting for one side to be cooked, Bjorn sat beside Ygritte. There, they sat in silence, the only sound that was present were from forest and the sizzling of the meat that was being cooked.

After couple of minutes, Ygritte spoke "I want to pee."

Bjorn scrutinized her, and seeing his eyes she continued "I'm not lying. I need to pee now."

Untying her, he led her to a place that had some coverings. Letting her go he said "Don't think of any funny business."

Without saying anything, she squatted down at the place that he pointed out. To give her some privacy, he turned around and after few seconds she ran as fast as she could from the spot. But, before she could reach a reasonable distance, Bjorn came from her side and lunged at her bringing her to ground. Sitting on top of her, he tied her securely and said "I told you, no funny business. I was going to give you a portion of the meat as a meal, but not anymore."

"....." Ygritte didn't say anything, and when he let her stand up she tried to headbutt his chest. But that attempt was thwarted by Bjorn with his hand on her head which made her unable to do anything.

Smiling at her, he said "You can try everything you can, but you won't be getting away from me unless you lead me to your clan."

"Why are you hell bent on meeting my clan?" Ygritte asked him.

"Because o don't have a clan and also I want to start trading with other clans." Bjorn told her and started to push her to the direction of the cave.

After that, Ygritte tried many times to escape from his hands but, everytime she tried to escape from him, he thwarted her escape means.

Like that a night passed and dawn arrived. When Bjorn was going out to cook the meat, Ygritte asked him "Why didn't you bed me?"

"What?!" Bjorn shouted at her in surprise.

"I said, why didn't you bed me?" Ygritte repeated her question.

Looking at her weirdly, he said "No way in hell I'm going to make love with an underage girl."

This time, Ygritte looked at him as he was a rare animal and asked "What's wrong with that? My brother bedded his wife when she was only a name day older than I am now."

"Huh? So what! She's his wife and he can do whatever he want with her. This and that have nothing in common, except the girls being underage." He told her.

Squinting her eyes, she said "Well I am your wife, no? So you can do whatever you want with me."

Hearing that he looked at her and cleaning his ear with his pinky finger, he asked "What was that?"

"Do I have to repeat everything I say to you?" Sighing, Ygritte continued "I said I'm your wife now, sow you do whatever you want with me."

Looking at Ygritte,he thought 'She's cute, and her red... ' *Slap* 'Snap out of it Bjorn! You're not a pedophile. But how the hell did we get married again?' As he thought through his actions from finding her to this morning, Bjorn had an epiphany 'Holly Molly! The Free Folk custom of kidnapping daughters of other clans to bolster your own clan! That makes the kidnapper the husband of the victim after the victim had put up a fight and couldn't escape the clutches of the kidnapper. I forgot about that!' When each thought passed through his head, his eyes started to go wide each time.

Taking a deep breath in, he closed his eyes and told her "You may be my wife, but I'm not touching you until you turn eighteen name days old."

"What kind of custom is that?" She asked him.

"That's what my dead mother taught me. And I'm not going to diverge from her teachings." Bjorn lied through his teeth.

Shrugging her shoulders she said "Well, if you can defend me from other men who will covert me, than I'm okay with waiting till I turn eighteen. But, can you untie me now? I'm not going to run away from you and even if I try it's useless against you."

"Alright." Saying so he untied her, and both of the started to eat their breakfast with stone grilled deer meat.