8 Rebuild

With ideas in my mind, I immediately went to my uncle. He was doing his work in the solar as usual. Seeing his state, I remembered that in the future I had to create a properly functioning bureaucratic structure and of course an institution to oversee this bureaucracy. Or I could die too soon because of all this paper work.

"Yes Torrhen, what do you need." He asked when he saw me come in.

"Uncle, can you tell me when The Broken Tower was demolished?"

"Hmm, actually I don't even remember exactly. I think the tower was like that even before your grandfather was born. So it's been ruined for quite some time." he said thoughtfully. Then he looked at me and asked

"why are you even asking?"

"Uncle, I think we should rebuild the tower."

I spoke immediately when he was about to say something. "Please listen to me before you say anything." He opened his mouth to speak for a moment, but then decided to remain silent.

"Look, uncle, as you said, the tower has been this way for a really long time. Maybe our ancestors didn't fix the tower because of financial problems, or maybe they didn't see the need for it. we do not have such a problem. We get a lot of money every month. So we have the economic power to do that. I also think we need this. This tower was the tallest and largest watchtower in the Winterfell. I think the tower will be very useful for the castle defense. But most of all I want to use the tower as my laboratory space. I want to continue my experiments in the future. Even now, there are a few things that I'm working on and that are almost finished. But we must protect these experiments and my research very well. The tower is perfect for providing that. It's like a castle by itself with only two entrances. That's why I'm asking you to let me fix the tower."

When I spoke, I looked into his eyes so that he could understand I am serious. After a while he sighed and spoke.

"Torrhen, I understand you and what you're saying makes sense, but what about the lightning issue?"

"Don't worry uncle, I thought about it. Actually, that was one of the projects I told you about. I have something to solve the lightning problem."

"Well boy, I trust you. The old gods would curse me if I didn't trust you after all you've done. You have my permission, you can fix the tower."

"When I heard that he were allowed, I spoke immediately. "Thank you uncle. I knew you would think like me"

He smiled when he saw my joy, but then warned me.

"Don't get me wrong young man. I gave you permission to fix the tower, not to set up a laboratory inside the tower. Before you can convince me of that, we need to see if your anti-lightning invention works."

"Ok uncle, we will try my new invention as soon as the tower is ready." After talking for a while about the workers who will be working on the production, the cost and other things, I returned to my room.

""2 Months Later""

"Slow down, Slow down, turn a little more to the left. Yes, great!"

I'm on top of the almost finished tower right now. The last stones were also brought Up. We used a treadwheel crane while moving up. A human powered crane. A crane used in the Earth, in Roman period and medieval ages. This idea came to my mind while I was starting the tower design drawings 2 months ago. If we had a crane, we could do everything more easily. Then I thought, maybe I can't even get close to modern cranes, but what would it be like if we did something more primitive? So I made the drawings of my first treadwheel crane. When I showed it to Maester Luwin, he was quite surprised. He said he had heard of such cranes being used in Essos before, but none of them were advanced like this one. He also said he didn't have the skills to do it himself.

Then we went to my uncle with maester Luwin. With Maester's help, my uncle quickly agreed to build the crane. Then we quickly built the crane and started using it. Since the design was mine, it was also my duty to ensure that there were no mistakes in its construction and use. We were moving much faster at first. Then another idea occurred to me. While we are dealing with ready-made construction works, why don't we renew the old and rotting wood parts of Winterfell? We can also replace the windows with the double-pane windows we have produced, which can help us in thermal insulation. Then I said, if we are doing renovations all Winterfell, why don't we lay stones on the courtyard floors. After all, the courtyards of Winterfell are still earth-based. Although it is not a problem on dry days but mud can be annoying on rainy or snowy days. Finally, we found out that we are renovating the whole of Winterfell. That's why the repair of the tower was delayed.

But I think it was worth it. Even if the renovations are not yet complete. Already Winterfell is looking gorgeous. We also expect that, all renovations to be completed within 2 weeks.

""Great Hall, Dinner Time""

I was tired of inspecting the training and education of my men with supervising construction works all day at the same time on today. Now I want to have a nice dinner and sleep.

"Torrhen, so the Broken Tower is finally finished. hmm, I guess we should come up with a new name for it." while I was eating, my uncle said.

"yes uncle, only the interior chores are left. So we can say it's over."

While talking to my uncle, my eyes fell on Lady Catelyn. She was in the final stages of pregnancy. Now she can give birth at any time.

After dinner, I said good night to everyone and went to my room. As soon as I got to the room, I jumped on the bed and fell asleep. I don't want to do anything else today.

"Milord! wake up Milord!"

Gecenin bir yarısı Bennet'in kapımı çalıp beni aramasıyla uyandım. I got up wondering what was going on. I went to the door and opened it.

"what's this Bennet, what happened?"

"Milord, you have another cousin. Lady Catelyn has given birth."

'So Sansa was born. The pack grew one more person. '