5.The Choice

Those were the words I had dreaded. Her health had not recovered fully after Cersei and Jamie and now this was happening. I was in a deep conundrum. The thing was that what could I do. The medical studies were not that advanced to account for her condition and even if they were. How could I, a 7year old tell them about it.

I continued to walk towards the library. I knocked at the door and entered to see maester warlick teaching both Cersei and Jamie. I entered the library and found both of them there. They both jumped upon seeing me and shot into me like a bullet.

"Hello brother Ty. What are you doing here?" Cersei chorused in a sweet voice. She was quite cute. "I just wanted to see how you two were doing. So what are you covering now." I asked while looking towards the Maester.

He smile and answered." Both of them are quite smart. They have done their letters and now have moved onto their houses and history."

I smiled and said." Wow. What is happening here. how could you be so fast. Well you are going to leave me in the dust. Perhaps I should stop teaching you my tricks."

"Don't be mean brother. We know you had done it all way before us. Everyone knows you are the brilliant lion." Cersei says with a small pout.

"Ah Maester it seems the secret is out. They know all about me. Now, I will have to help you study lest you spread it around the castle."

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I had not been completely idol throughout the years. Being the richest house in the Westeros had its own privilages. I had been granted a very substantial sum of pocket money. I had only mentioned it to my mother in passing and she had arranged it. Twenty gold dragons a week. A small folk family could live on 3 gold dragons a year.

I had found some small passages out of the castle and would use them to sneak out. i had bought some farming land and some small shops. I paid a small family a single gold dragon to work on them per my instructions. For the land I would advise them to use manure and rotten leaves as agriculture and have them implement a system of rudimentary crop rotation. I was not a farmer yet even I knew that it was detrimental to continuously grow a single plant.

I made my way through the narrow passage that came out o the street. i walked for a while and knocked on a small shops backdoor. The door opened and I entered.

"Welcome my Lord." the man said while bowing. His family were traders from Essos and they were deep in debt. I paid of their debt and now they all worked for me. He was fiercely loyal to me as I had saved her sister and wife from a very dangerous fate. He had a fine skillset which was something I needed as I could not move openly. When he found out who I was he decided to work for me immediately.

"I am fine Daniel. I just wanted to know how are things going."

"My Lord the projects are doing fine. Last month we made 300 gold dragons. The crop yield has increased three fold after the use of manure and we were finally able to make the cheese from milk. I have bought a inn and will have it rennovated according to your instructions. The wine making on the other hand has not been successful. The yeast was added yet the taste just doesn't mellow out."

I listened and I was quite happy. I now had money of my own and this was only going to increase. I was going to train chefs with my own recipes and make a chain of inns. I already bought and land and the produce was sent directly to the inns and cut out the middle men. The wine making was a unique idea. I only had and idea that it used fermented fruit and after reading books from the library and some asking around I had planned to set up a distillery. Yes, it was unsuccessful now but I was confident I could crack the secret in a couple of years. This would help increase trade of our House.

"Good. Continue on as I have instructed. If you face a problem, tell me immediately. Hire some more men. Start making an account book and continue experimenting withe winw and look out for some workers who have experience in the field. You may use my name as a last resort." I gave the instructions and got up to leave.

"Of course My Lord."

I left feeling somewhat placated. At least somethings were going my way.