Chapter 371

KEVAN LANNISTER POV

Talking with greedy Magisters was exhausting.

As if they were leeches trying to suck the very life out of him even as they smiled and called him a 'dear friend'.

He would have ignored them if not for the fact that he and his forces were far too weak to go against Lord Bolton.

Even if by some miracle his forces did succeeded in taking over the Bolton Port (which he really doubted), they would still not get the anywhere near Winterhold.

Which was why he needed the help of Magisters of Myr and Tyrosh.

He had already convinced the Magister from Tyrosh to help him. And it took him one and a half month to get those greedy bastards to agree.

They were already gathering sellsails and sellswords for the war against House Bolton.

Now he only needed to get the Magisters from Myr to agree to his plans.

Would probably take him one more month to gather enough support and then one or two more months to gather all the men and then they would be off to war.

His brother had already started the war by destroying the Riverlander forces. While his own was in turn by destroyed by Lord Bolton.

He wanted to be there and relieve some of the burden from his brother's shoulders but he had his own mission to complete.

He did wonder how the war was going now.

The only way to know about the war in this foreign land was to ask the merchants and they hardly ever had the proper information.

When he came back to the Mansion he'd been living in, his first goal was to go to the pool and get himself cleaned.

That goal went out the window when the servants told him that he had a visitor. Someone sent by his brother.

He went to the guest room and found a man from House Payne sitting in front of him.

The man got up and gave him a bow. "Ser Kevan. I'm Ser Alyn Payne."

He nodded "I was told you have a message for me."

The man nodded quickly "Yes yes… I message from Lord Tywin himself. He told me to give it to you and no one else. Not for other's eyes you see." The man said and fumbled in his pockets before he finally took out an envelop and handed it over to him.

He tore the envelop with the Lannister seal and took out the letter inside

The first few lines in the letter almost gave him a heat attack.

-Kevan, Casterly Rock has fallen to the Bolton boy. I underestimated him and his resourcefulness. If I'm correct then he has probably taken all the gold inside Casterly Rock.

Return to the Westerlands immediately. I'll try to get back what's been taken from us but if I fail then I leave the future of my house in your hand.-

Below his brother explained what happened and how Casterly Rock fell without anyone knowing any better.

He also found that the Knights of the Vale had joined the Northern Army.

If that was true then his brother's remaining forces must be in dire circumstances.

He went through the letter a few more times before he put the letter down on the table and told the knight to give him some time.

Once the knight had left the room, he closed the doors and took out a wine bottle.

It had been years since he last drank something but the fact that Casterly Rock has fallen and the fact that his wife was and kids were either dead or in chains didn't help.

He opened the bottle and poured some wine on the glass.

By the time he was done with the wine, he had decided to leave all his hard work in the free cities behind and return to Westerlands.

Attacking House Bolton would be cathartic but he needed to think about his family this time.

And his family needed him back in Westeros.