"Y-yes, milord! No-nothing more!" The maid, sixteen years old Fiera, almost pleaded, making me wake up from my muddy thoughts as I quickly ordered her to stand.

"Common, there is nothing to worry Fiera, I'm not angry at you, nor will I channel my anger on you, you did good, for that, I will double your payment this month and will use you as a pillow, so you can sleep with me tonight, alright?" I gently said, well, as most as I could, the anger still inside me raged, but now more cold rather than fiery hot.

"I-Thank you, milord!" Fiera exclaimed, the previous signs of fear almost gone when she heard about the double pay and that she could today sleep on a comfortable bed and be paid for it, and she didn't even need to sell her body for it, as I just really wanted to use her as a pillow, she small tits, but her next door girl look made her presence was kind of soothing for me...

Telling Fiera to go back to her job and return when I had to go to sleep so she could join me, I muttered a curse under my breath after she was gone...

It wasn't even a day after my return, father didn't call me into his solar, so I just waited for him, using the time to make the trio of mother and two daughters get to know Bolton's head maid and their future boss Seya, and telling them all to get cleaning and scrubbed clean in my own private bathroom that I let maids, just maids and servant girls use, I had no desire let men use it too, still, it boosted my popularity among women, and even men as the women in the castle became more attractive...

No, what almost made me snap was the news I gained, see, having a female population of castle adoring you or liking you have its merits, as they are then more prone to share any rumor or things they saw more freely, such as the fact that my fucking father, Roose Bolton done it fucking again!

I knew there in North the law of first night, the more barbaric tradition lords used to sleep with newlywed women on their first night of bedding, taking their virginity before their husbands, was still somehow used, Umber's from what I knew did practice this law, and maybe even others used this law to satisfy their carnal desires, not caring of the damage this is doing to their people morale...

I wouldn't be so angry if Roose did it to someone unimportant, again like with Miller incident, where he hanged the man and raped the woman before her dead husband, thus creating a monster of this monster act...

Even if I found it distasteful, I understood it, to some degree, there were few fun activities for the lord in this place, so them enjoying taking the virginity of any woman was not ok, but understandable, alas stupid, so stupid that it made my head hurt, the amount of resentment this one-night law brings cant by measured to any amount of pleasure the lord feels in the act, it just stupid law and shortsighted action for lords who do this...

And now my father done it again, just this time to some Vale bastard, bastard or not, I didn't care why exactly Milla Stone was in there, if she was a spy then she done a horrible job, maybe she came here because North view bastards in smaller disdain than rest of the realm, just like Dorne...

And my father needs to fuck it up, literally, and the worst? I think that father did it just for fun, for fun in fucking some noble's daughter...

Bastard or not, at least one of her parents was noble, thus that made her important...

I... Maybe I should visit her? Not so soon when this is still raw, but later, maybe in a week? Yea, let's go with that...

Another reason I was so angry was because of the realization that bastards were an interesting resource...

So full of wishing they are better than the trueborn, so ostracized in the South for something they are innocent of, for being born when the one to blame was the unfaithful parents, so full of resentment...

It was a potential source of skilled, knowledgeable, or connected people others didn't much use, something that I knew I could use...

But then the father must go and fuck bastard girl...

Haaah...

My conversation with my father was short and uninformative, all he asked me if the deal went through, to which I told him that yes, it did, and then he asked me what I had in plan with the people I brought back, especially the blacksmith apprentices...

Again making me remind him that I wished to better the metallurgy in Bolton lands.

Once done with this, I left father solar, still a little angry with him, but not enough to call him on it...

I made my way to Wolkan's workshop in Bolton's castle as I had an idea I wished to utilize, I did notice my sketches and drawings being moved, and knowing that servants wouldn't risk my ire, it was clear who did it, but that wasn't important, as anything that was important was written in my native Czech language, so them finding something important wasn't on my mind.

"Maester." I walked into the opened doors.

"Ah, milord, you are back!" Wolkan turned around to me.

"Yes, something you surely already know, but that isn't the reason I'm there." I walked to the chair as I sat on it, making Wolkan copy me.

"The reason I'm in there is to ask you for a favor, no, no, let's say I'm to order you something that will in the future make you the more free time you can spend for yourself." I glanced at Wolkan, whose attention was now fully on me.

"And, that is milord?" Wolkan asked, clearly interested.

"I wish for you, Maester Wolkan, to teach the females I pick art of healing." I dropped the bomb.

"W-what? B-but that's! M-milord I can-" I raised my hand, making Wolkan reluctantly stop.

"Was your mother wise, Maester? Or was she stupid?" I simply asked.

"...My mother was intelligent woman milord." Wolkan slowly said, making me smile.

"So, it isn't a problem of women, is it, look Maester, I do know Citadel tradition of hoarding knowledge, but ultimately is it on us how we use that knowledge, and I wish for you to teach few specialy picked women in the art of healing, nothing too serious, I understand how impossible request it would by if I wanted you to teach them everything you know about healing, no, what I want Maester is to teach women is, how to treat everyday injuries, simple common sicknesses, how to give birth rightly, how to stabilize person go give them time for you to arrive and heal them, see, all I want Maester is to make you more helpers, just imagine how much more free time you would have if you didn't need to take care of every peasant or servant small injury, just taking care of the more serious cases, would it truly by so bad to have so many helpers you wouldn't worry about giving responsibility in a time of need when your hands and mind could by used for something more important?" I smilingly asked...

No matter how reluctant Maester Wolkan was, I knew that I had him, all I needed was to sell it to him in such a way that he could see that idea as his and thus teach the maids I pick more seriously...

I had no intention just yet in telling him that I would make maids teach what they learn to their other fellow maids and that my intention was to create this world-first Red Cross, a way to make myself look better in the peasant's eyes after all, I would pay for their healing, they don't need to know that reason I was doing this was to make sure my workforce was in prime condition to work...

Even my selfish desires could be helpful to others...

Now, I needed to make my father agree with it...

That made me stop as I realized I needed to quicken my plan with potato farms, I needed vodka, and not just drink, but as a sterilizing agent, as I remember that most child birthing death rates in these times are because of bacteria, I had no idea how to create other sterilizing agents, never indeed reading them, but vodka, vodka should do, at least for now...

Hopefully, when labeled rightly, even an idiot wouldn't drink sterilizing vodka that had 95% of alcohol...

Who I'm kidding? I'm sure a report of such death would be before me not even a year after my distributing it...

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