Towards Sunspear

A carriage carried by two horses moved ahead while 3 horses followed behind the carriage.

Inside the carriage were Jon Snow and his newly recruited subordinate Slyvia.

After the increase in his size of his entourage, Jon had reduced his speed. He had now started to take more frequent breaks.

Though these breaks were not for the rest purpose. During these breaks Jon had begun training Slyvia in basics of sword fighting. She was also uneducated so he had also started to teach her the art of writing and reading.

Being a poor orphan, Slyvia did not had an access to nutritious food. But despite this, having survived the tough conditions of the north her body was not frail. But now she had access to enough meat which Jon hunted from the forest, which was as easy as breathing to him.

Although Jon had taken her in as a subordinate and intended to use one of the blood essences on her, he had not done it immediately.

He had no specific reason for this but had decided to wait for few days before granting her the blood essence.

Finally, 8 days after the incident, the duo arrived at White Harbour.

At the port, Jon could see more than usual number of guards patrolling and trying to search for someone. No doubt the search was going for him.

But based only on the description it was difficult to catch someone, if they had no unique traits. Fooling the guards was easy task for Jon.

At the harbour Jon managed to strike a deal with a merchant for his 5 horses and the carriage for 16 gold dragons.

He knew that the price he was offered was lower than the market prize, there was nothing much he could do about it.

For seeing his young age, every merchant wanted to con him and since he was on territory of one of the pledged houses to house Stark, Jon was in a hurry and did not want to draw too much attention.

Luckily enough Jon was able to find a merchant ship sailing to Sunspear, the principal port of Dorne.

He struck a deal with the captain of the ship at 3 gold dragons to each to take him with them, which again was a costly affair but Jon agreed.

It would take him around another 25- 30 days to reach Sunspear. From there he would go to Tower of Joy.

Spending another 3 gold dragons, Jon collected enough provision to last him for an entire month.

The captain of the ship who was a middle age burly man, allotted Jon and Slyvia a small cabin where he would be spending the next month.

After the ship has sailed for one day, Jon called Slyvia.

The girl who was lazing around on her bed walked up and stood in front of Jon.

Jon said, "Slyvia, I have taken you as my subordinate. In future you will have a lot of responsibilities on your shoulder."

Slyvia nodded her head in response.

Jon continued, "I will grant you a kind of power which will help you in this path."

Slyvia did not understood what Jon meant by granting some powers and neither did Jon say anything more.

He raised his index finger and a red blood drop enveloped in a golden halo appeared at the tip of the index finger.

Slyvia was taken aback at this sudden turn of the events. As a northern she had many tales of magic, warging, giants and many more mythical things and did not hate magic with a passion as most of the southern do, but she had never expected to see something like this from her own eyes.

She did not have much time to dwell when Jon pushed his finger forward and poked Slyvia's forehead.

A slight tingle went down every inch of Slyvia's body and there after she felt nothing.

"What was this?" She muttered in daze.

Jon answered calmly, "My gift."

"But I don't feel anything," said Slyvia. "And do you know magic?" asked Slyvia.

"You will slowly feel the changes in your body," replied Jon.

He continued, "And no, I don't know magic. This is a special ability I have which I can use to grant some strength to you."

Though she did not understand what difference it meant between magic and special ability she did not enquire further and nodded her head.

While Jon was travelling towards Sunspear, the castle of Winterfell was in its own mayhem.

It began around 15 days back.

(FLASHBACK)

Ned had just woken up. It was quite late in the morning and he felt his head heavy.

Last night during the feast he had drunk quite a bit and could not help but groan in discomfort.

He pushed his body up from the bed.

After completing his daily rituals, he was just about to enter his solar when Maester Luwin came hurriedly walking to him.

Before Ned could ask, what the matter was, Luwin said, "Lord Stark, Jon is missing."

"What?" blurted Ned.

"Jon…. He is missing," Luwin repeated again.

Ned panicked a bit, "What…. How… Tell me what happened?"

Luwin explained in detail, "Jon… we had not seen him since morning. He did not show up for his classes and I thought that maybe he was too tired after the feast and would be sleeping late."

He continued, "But then he did not show up for his combat classes so I asked someone to check on him thinking if he may have fallen ill. But we were unable to find him anywhere….."

Ned went into a state of shock.

Luwin informed further, "Later, one of the guards found a long rope hanging from the wall. We suspect it was used by Jon to jump down the wall."

It took few seconds for Ned to compose his mind, "Send as many men as possible to search for him. He must have not gotten far. Maybe he is hiding somewhere close by."

Luwin nodded and Ned continued, "Also, Maester Luwin send ravens to all the houses especially those who are neighbouring us asking them to search for Jon. Send them the appearance of his description."

Luwin nodded, "Yes, Lord Stark." And he went away to do as told.

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