Money matters
[{Pic} 91 on power stone ranking, might not be a big deal for others, but it is for me.
Also, many of you are complaining about mistakes here and there, but please try to understand, I use Grammarly and accept all the corrections it makes. Now it changes the word Dorne to Drone, then I don't have the motivation to correct it after its publication. I know that Dorne is still misspelled in the recent chapter, but when I hardly accumulate motivation to write chapters, then correcting them is the lowest of my priorities. I need ideas and am making them on the spot so I apologize for those errors,]
[Also suggest to me how to address the MC, like Allfather sounds too empowering, while Mimirsen is more of a title and sounds too formal for his friends to use. Jim is belittling a man of his stature. I am confused about how to make the side characters address him.]
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Benjen, the youngest of the Starks was leading down south along the King's road while his siblings were accompanying him behind.
The Starks rode south to the King's Landing, comprising of the eldest and heir to Winterfell, Brandon, Benjen, and the guest from the south who had been introduced as the foster father to the Starks by his father, Richard Stark.
Initially, Benjen was skeptical, even of his father's words. As the foster father of all the "Starks" was a big deal for anyone. But after his stay at the castle, Benjen opened up to him and even received some advice on his personal matters.
Kingslanding was some 1200 miles south of Winterfell (yes ~1270 miles, I checked with the map) so it would take the Starks time on the horses to march there.
So the journey again served as a nice bonding experience for the siblings, given his brothers were mostly at their foster homes.
As the youngest, Benjen had not seen much of his eldest brother. His father did say Brandon favored his youngest brother, but he was a child then. As Benjen grew up, his elder brothers were sent to the Dustins and Arryns respectively for their fostering, so the only child benjen could play with his standing as lords of the north, was his sister Lyanna.
Lyanna was more foregoing than Benjen, earning her name as the she-wolf of the North. She was also stronger than him, given she was older and Benjen was but a child of 11. (OC, Ned is in his mid-30s in the books in 298 and this 278, so ned is like 15-16, then come Lyanna, 13-14, and Benjen 12-11). The last few months had been a nice experience for the youngest Starks, Lyanna and BEnjen, who were in the company of Brandon and Jim. The small Dustin was there at Winterfell for some time, who left for Dustin territory the same time as they did for King's Landing.
Normally Lords of anywhere in the realm are surrounded by guards and knights while they travel, sitting in carriages and all, but the Stark siblings were accompanied by only Mimirsen while riding on a cart with the new alcohol they had been selling. Classic peasant style.
They had taken guest rights at House Reed in the North, which was their first stop where they did not stay out in the wild, that was a fortnight ago.
Riding the horse along the King's road, the Benjen had scouted out and returned, to inform the sightings of the King's Landing, a majestic sight to see according to him.
Unlike the Riverlands and crownlands, the North was sparsely populated, hence each village was easily differentiated by the estimated distance. The same could not be done with the southern kingdoms.
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Keeping up with the horses of Mimisen and his brother, Brandon was maneuvering the horsecart when they came to the entry gate to King's landing.
"You two just put me forward for the formalities, otherwise what am I? Your horsecart merchant? Not for one day had anyone of you taken this responsibility. Why do I have to do all the work?" Brandon complained as he walked down the cart and approached the Gold cloak standing there.
"Young Benjen is not proficient to drive a horsecart, he may damage the goods while I have to have active sense, for an ambush as such. You are the only one who could have been given the responsibility of the liquor," Benjen chuckled.
"Yeah~yeah." Brandon introduced himself as the Stark of Winterfell to the guard and was met with a hospitable welcome into the city. The group of three moved along to reach a prominent inn in the city, where Benjen and Jim were to rest and Brandon to announce their presence, for the meeting in Red Keep tomorrow.
The inn was luxurious compared to any in the North, or even in Riverlands. Benjen had gone to bed as it was dusk and travel was tiring while Brandon visited a place of "night service" to rest.
Mimirsen, having nothing else to do for the night followed Benjen to sleep in the inn.
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