Chapter 308

The wives and daughters of Castor had come out of their house by now and were watching the scene in silence apathy.

He had no idea what they felt for the man.

On one hand, the man was their husband and father. Both in a few cases. On the other hand, the man had no qualms against sacrificing any baby boy to the White Walkers and acted as a tyrant in his own home.

Baka brought the coffin and put it in front of Castor.

"You see. Me and my men were searching for a White Walkers in the True North for over a month." He said "When we finally found one, we found that the White Walker had a baby with him. The smell of the baby brought us here. And no I'm left wondering. Why would someone give away their baby to the White Walkers? What do you have to gain Castor?"

Castor coughed a few more times and spat on the ground. He looked up and then his eyes fell upon the bundle in Ygritte's arms and his eyes widened.

"What have you done?" he asked.

"See for yourself." He said and opened the lid of the coffin.

The temperature fell in an instant and a loud screech rang throughout the clearing.

Castor pissed his pants as he gazed at the White Walker kept inside the Dragonglass Coffin "That's… not possible."

He closed the lid and looked at Baka "Put it back inside." He said and turned to Castor once again.

"Now. Why don't you tell me why you sacrificed your children to the White Walkers?"

"What have you done… what have you done… They'll kill us all." The man looked at him, his expression a mixture of terror and rage "They'll kill us all!!!"

He sighed "This is taking too long."

He took Castor's face and forced him to look him in the eyes and whispered "Legilimens."

He came out of Castor's mind a few moments later and sighed.

"Bring me a block."

The men moved to follow his orders and brought a block and Castor on top of the Block.

"For the crime of Filicide and aiding the White Walkers. I, Lord Domeric Bolton sentence you to die."

Then he swung Lily and separated Castor's head from his shoulder.

There was silence in the courtyard.

He turned to Ygritte and said "Give the child back to his mother. And gather the women. I want to have a talk with them."

Ygritte nodded and left.

He took out his communication mirror from his pocket and called Lyra.

The call didn't connect and he remembered that the Wall blocked all magical connections.

"Tell them that I'll return in a minute." He said to Varko and left the clearing.

Once he was out of sight, he apparated to the top of the Wall.

He called Lyra once again.

She picked up after the first ring.

"My lord. What can I do for you?" she asked.

"Update me on the current situation." He said.

She nodded "Stannis Baratheon has gathered the Royal fleet and has left for the south. Probably to siege Storms End. Renly Baratheon has gathered about 80,000 men. 20,000 more will join him by the end of the week and then he'll start his war campaign. Ser Devan Lannister broke Ser Edmure's army and took him captive. Lord Tytos Blackwood retreated back to Riverrun and closed it's portcullis. Ser Devan Lannister has now put Rivverun in siege with 15,000 men. Lord Tywin Lannister has also crossed the Golden tooth with 25,000 men. The Mountain is still burning and pillaging villages with his 3000 men." She said "Last but not the least, Lord Stark has also left Winterfell with some 35,000 men."

"What of Kings Landing, Vale, Iron Islands and Dorne."

"Queen Regent Cersei is gathering the Crownlanders and mercenaries as well as conscripting men to defend Kings Landing. Sansa is not having a good time in the Red Keep but she'll survive. Vale has declared it's neutrality in this whole conflict. The Iron Islands have still not recovered from the last war. But they hold a great deal of resentment in their hearts. They don't have the men or the ships to do anything dangerous so they're out of the equation for now. As for Dorne, Prince Doran Martell has once again declared neutrality."

He nodded "I have a task for you Lyra."

"What is it my lord?"

"I want you to send Bran and Meera to Castor's Keep."

"Through portkey?" Lyra asked.

"No." He shook his head "I might reveal that I'm a wizard sooner or later but I'm not going to show my magical travel power to others. No. You'll send them to me with the Wyvern."

"Wyve… you want Varamyr to bring them to you on his Wyvern."

"Yes." He nodded "That would take the least amount of time. Though don't forget to give some warm magical clothes to Bran and Meera. I don't want them freezing up in the sky."

Lyra nodded "I'll talk with Varamyr and the kids. Those two have been staying in Dreadfort for a whole month and have started to become impatient."

"That'll be all Lyra." He said and cut the connection.

With no White Walkers in sight, it should be fairly safe for Varamyr to fly on his Wyvern and reach Castor's Keep within a day or two.

It was finally time for him to return the favor to Lord Bloodraven.

With another apparition he came back to the place he apparated from.

He went to where his men had gathered an saw that Ygritte was still talking with the women.

He turned to Walton "Have the men prepare their tents. We'll stay here for the next two days. And tell them to not touch the women. Any man who rapes a woman will get capital punishment."

With that, he left to talk with the women.

He knew that killing Castor essentially left these women defenseless so he wanted to take them South and give them homes of their own.

If they accept then good. If they don't, then he'll just have to use some compulsion charm to make them accept.

Because if they remain here then they'll die and he didn't want that on his conscience.