Robb Stark Interlude

Robb Stark, King in the North looked down at the manacled form of Ser Jaime Lannister. The gambit to capture him at Whispering Woods had succeeded and now it was time to figure out what to do with him.

His mother wished to trade him for Sansa and Arya, but news from the South had made those plans somewhat outdated. Apparently a Lord Robb Irons had been smashing Lannister forces left and right and had taken all of Crackclaw Point, Rook's Rest, Duskendale, and now Rosby for Stannis and was closing in on King's Landing from the North with an army of 20,000.

Likewise Stannis had smashed Renly and taken the Stormlands, Kingswood, and Faring's Crossing and was moving in on King's Landing from the south with an army of 15,000. Stannis' fleet was blockading the Blackwater and moving ships in to support an attack on King's Landing.

The Lannisters meanwhile had lost all forces except for 5,000 troops and 10 Ships in King's Landing herself and those were mostly Gold Cloaks. It seemed that the war in the Crownlands would be won by Stannis.

This meant that trading Jaime for Sansa and Arya was not likely to work and growing less likely by the day. Robb may be forced to bend the knee to Stannis to get his sisters back. . .that was a galling prospect.

Still if he had to do that, it would be best to placate his banner men first. Decided, he turned to his squire, Olyvar Frey and said.

"Tell Lord Karstark I have decided that his sons shall have vengeance after all. I wish for my banner men to assemble at dawn for an execution."

Sometimes it was no good to be the King