Plans 1

And it happened.

I officially became the son of lord of Barrowtown, I don't know how they did it but people think I'm Lord's Willam Dustin firstborn. It would be nice but! There's always the fucking "but"!

When my mother married into House Dustin, my new father said that I will not be his successor. Well jokes on you as you die bro! This didn't change the fact that my mother understood him and even started to fall for the man a bit I think.

Apparently they knew each other since young, but no surprise here as they are neighboring lords with House Ryswell. My grandfather from Ryswell side was furious with the young Stark and even wanted to rebel. Maybe this pushed him to side with the Boltons later on so fast.

Still, the Dustin and Ryswell House received a nice "reward for their loyalty" from old Rickard Stark to keep their mouths shut.

I'm now 3 years old and look like a Stark. Grey eyes like my father, slim build but taller than most children and dark hair.

Apparently I'm "cute" for now. My mother says I look exactly like my father when he was young.

I don't really care if anyone will see me as a monster so I started walking and speaking early on and fortunately no one did.

My mother thinks of me as genius and that's good, but the woman is probably the smartest person I know. She squeezed the old Stark dry for ruining her and her father's dream to marry a Stark.

She took over teaching me reading, writing and everything I would need in the future and doesn't let the Maester Lowsen of our castle to even get near me if there's no need and the guards made sure of that.

I still act like a child but with my questions I can somewhat lead my mom to do what I want, the woman loves me above all else and I learned to love her as well.

From what I heard from the servants in the castle the tourney at Harrenhal will begin. Yes castle. I wouldn't call this a castle even if you'd cut me but meh. It's mostly build from wood except of the towers!

I was sitting in my bed pretending to take a nap, it's the only time I'm not guarded by a personal servant or the guards my mother put on me.

To explain my requests I said that I have dreams about this things and imagine my surprise when my mother told me about herself being a skin changer!

From the information I've got, she can control any animal except for dogs and wolves and my stepfather too! The reason no one knows is that it's not a good thing on this side of the wall, so she strictly forbid me from talking about it to anyone else.

More surprises came after, I sure as hell am no Greenseer but... I am a warg. Courtesy of my father Stark blood. How do I know? Really easy.

My pet black and white wolves that follow me everywhere is the proof. No, not direwolves but I think they will be just as big as my mother said they're about three times bigger than a normal wolf pup their age, maybe they have something in their blood as well.

We found them in the Wolfswood during one of our trips to The Rills or more like they found us and communicating with them is for me as easy as talking. I'm sure not all Starks can do that so it might be a side effect of what and how I was brought here.

That's not all. I remember reading about warging and what it said is that all wargs are shape changers but not all shape changers are wargs. Thinking about it I experimented and yes. It's true. Since then I was in the body of a bear, rabbit, deer and even some birds. The only thing I need to do is see the animal. Now this is not normal right?

Loki the black and Laika the white are with me everywhere I go and even now Loki is sleeping on the right and Laika the white on the left, they're as protective as my mother never letting me out of their sight.

Back to my mother and step father.

When she taught me on our lessons how to use the ability she said something that will be a great help to me in the future!

The Northern houses kill all the shape changers from the small folk they find but the Dustin family always protected their own in secret. The problem is they never used their abilities to prosper! The only thing they did was to send the older ones to look and rescue any new shape changers in the towns and villages they could find and send them here. So I have potentially gain a possible spy network and cheap labor.

Imagine plowing the fields using shapeshifter possession of a bear, horse or other animals! The efficiency increased I will just have to design the tools for this and luckily my orphanage used to send us to a farm to earn some money so I think I have basics covered.

You can spy using the animals as well, there are mice and birds everywhere! I don't even want to think how many people I will need but if I use the existing leaders of spy networks and spy on them then I will at least know the same think they do!

The bad thing is that we can not use the animals to fight, if you die in the body of an animal a part of you will die as well. I don't want my precious people going dumb like Hodor.

There is so many things that needs to be done for me to even think of doing anything I want here! First let's plan for the future!

First of all Barrowtown. Good position with access to water which means fish... and Ironborns. Fuck.

Well let's stay optimistic and see what we can work with step by step for now.

We have water so fishing and salt but no real ships except the fishing boats. What can I do about that? Easy build our own. I will ask mother to get a ship builder from the White Harbor! We have a loot of wood and stones on our lands so it will be easier to build the things I need.