Chapter 191

"Are you sure that this is the way?" Benjen Stark asked as he rode in his horse beside him, impatience oozing from his very being.

He could understand why.

"Yes. I'm sure." He replied, feeling a little happy at finally solving the problem of the Valyrian Glass Candle and finding the White Walkers with it.

Well, he didn't technically find the White Walkers.

What he found was an area where he could not go to even with the amplified Valyrian Glass Candle. As well as the footsteps of what could only be hundreds of Wights.

"That is what you said when we followed you at the start of this journey. Then you had us wait in the middle of the Wildling territory for 3 whole weeks. Our men must have reached East Watch By The Sea by now."

"Perhaps." He said, not really caring about Benjen's grumbling.

"This is not a small matter Domeric. If Robb and Jon don't return to the Wall before the end of the month then Ned might call for the banners and lead a great host to the North in order to find them."

He snorted at that.

He was sure that finding the White Walkers would still take some time, even with the amplified Candle. But North was a vast kingdom and gathering the banners itself took a month or two. And then it would take one more month for that host to reach the Wall.

They would easily be back home by then. Provided that the White Walkers don't kill them first.

"You don't need to worry Benjen. We'll reach our target soon enough."

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A week later

Well, he might have been a little wrong in his assumption that they would find the White Walkers quickly.

When he decided to work on the magical runes to enhance the range and power of the Valyrian Glass Candle, he knew that such a process might take him weeks so he had cast a charm around them that stopped the scattered Free Folk from Weeper's army from noticing them.

He and his men lost that advantage when they started to move once again.

And by that time they had been surrounded by Weeper's people from all sides.

Only, the Free Folk didn't knew about their presence so they were able to slip past most of the scattered groups.

Most, meaning that they still had to fight a few of them.

In hindsight, his tendency to gather the corpses and burn them might have been what led to them having to fight so many groups in the first place.

He had been over confident in his magical armors.

Thankfully, the magical armors did their job and no one died.

Unfortunately, because of his mistake, they had to fight a total of 28 small groups and kill over a thousands men and women before they were finally out of the area which the Weeper was using to forage for food.

By this time, the White Walkers had moved once again and he had to use the more evil of the Free Folk as sacrifice so that he could charge the petrified Dragon Egg once again which allowed him to use the Glass Candle to find the White Walkers once again.