Chapter 54

"I don't like this." His aunt murmured anxiously as she walked to and fro in the room while he stoically looked outside the window where a large procession of 1,300 wildlings were being taken to one of the empty pastures that he had selected for them at an earlier date.

"I know. But it is done. Worrying about it won't change anything." He said with a shrug though he was slightly worried about how anxious she seemed about this whole affair.

After all, he did love her like a mother he never had and didn't want to cause her too much trouble.

"They're wildlings." She cursed while looking at them though all he could see were some desperate people who were running from the Others.

After reading the mind of some of the people, he was sure that there were undeads rising beyond the wall. Undeads who had bright blue eyes and didn't die even if your tore them in half.

But none of them had ever seen a White Walker so he was not still not sure of their existence. Though in his heart, he knew that they existed.

The problem was that he couldn't just go around telling such things to the other lords as it would cause too much panic among them.

He looked outside and where his aunt saw these cursed 'Wildlings', he just saw children, women, old people and few men.

When he had gone to Hardhome with his small fleet in order to fulfill the promise he had given to Mance Rayder, he had found more than 2,100 people waiting for him in the shores as well as Mance Rayder and Tormund Giantsbane.

Those 2,100 free folk were being led by 6 different leaders. Unfortunately, 2 of them were lying to him and had no intention of settling down quietly within his lands. They instead planned to pillage his lands and go further south to find 'safety'.

He had denied them the passage to his lands, telling Mance Rayder about their true intentions.

A fight almost broke out right then and there as the 2 leaders refused to accept his decision but Mance Rayder was finally able to calm everything down and I was able to bring the remaining 1,300 free folk to my land but not before all the leaders promised to follow the law and not harm other men and women in my lands.

Thankfully, Muron was capable of braving the sea without sailing near the sea shores so the men from the East Watch didn't found out about secret his trip to Hardhome.

Now he'll just have to make sure that other people didn't find out about him harboring Free Folk within his lands. But even if they did, it was not like there was any law against doing such a thing.

And if it came to war, then he already had a standing army of 1,300 men with 1,000 more being trained in a hidden place. Not to mention the levies that he'll be able to raise, the giants and the wargs that would fight for him should someone tried to challenge him.

Though admittedly, he would rather have peace than see his men fight a meaningless battle.