Chapter 15

You got done with creating the Gems you wanted to trade a few moments before you actually opened the Casket you had chosen for the Occasion, and so you quickly decide that there would be little in the way of reason to stick around, if you want to continue with your Plan. So with your Knights in tow you make your way out of the Rock proper towards your Home's Harbor just a bit deeper, so as to take a Ship, which would be the fastest way to really secure your little Excursion, even if your absence was noticed the moment you will have left the Rock.

For when you decide to do something you would prefer if it was indeed done right, and being interrupted wouldn't do, even in such trivial things as going to Lannisport, especially seeing as it could cost you quite a bit more than merely a few Hours or Days of your time. It could cost you your Father's trust instead, if you just screwed up badly enough, though you can hardly believe that it would truly come to it, with how little resistance you're currently facing, and you being you, on top of that.

Mayhaps, everything will go just fine, or perhaps everything will go terribly wrong, but you immediately decide you would enjoy the Town, so that's what you will do, it will be entertaining at the very least, even if the aftermath might be the opposite. And so you were holding unto that Thought while you enjoyed the Sea for a bit, it has been a rather long time, which you do admit is more clear to you now than it was in your last Life.

But admiring Nature takes time, and that was something no one you ever met had truly enough of, yet you're reminded of why it can also be very beneficial if one is in the right State of Mind, which you were if only for the few Minutes the Ship took to bring you and your Companions into the Harbor. Two rather interesting Ideas manifested and then further developed in your Mind while you looked around for the nearest Merchant-guild, but you're unsure if you really should put in the effort to create a Ship made out of Stone, seeing as that would bring a good amount of Negative Attention to the Westerlands.

On the other Hand, you can't help but wonder if it could really weaken the Position of your House that much, but you soon focus on the little White Cub sitting on your left shoulder. So yes, while that Idea is rather amusing it doesn't seem like it would be of much use, so for the time being you drop the Thought, seeing as you can't really make the Ship look like a stuffed Animal to hide what it really is. Then again having absolute Naval Superiority would help with the Logistic pressure, and the Iron Islands could be taken easily if one can stop them from fishing, or so you guess, who knows, mayhaps they would just eat their Thralls.

You of course didn't just stop walking while you pondered the Advantages of holding the Sea in the coming Wars, so you weren't surprised to find yourself before the greatest Building the Port of Lannisport houses, and even less so to find yourself going through the Streets with two-thousand Gold Dragons shortly after exiting. For you were sure that your Gems would be quite valuable after you made them with the help of your Father's Book, though having to actually point out that you would put them all to the Sword if you later learned that they had tried to trick you was still a bit irritating, how could someone dare to even consider scamming the House that protects them, shouldn't they know their Place a bit better?

Choosing to ignore the greedy Sheep, you instead look around the Town in an effort to see if there was indeed something of use, but there was nothing you could find, though you doubted you would have any success at the first Day anyway. So you soon chose to order your Knights to buy you an Inn to stay in, while you will look if the greater Merchants deeper in the Town own anything that might be of Value to you, as to not end the first Day empty-handed.

You continue your stroll through Lannisport deep into the Night, so as to see if the remaining Merchants are a bit more interesting than the ones you looked at for the better half of the Day, though that hope soon leaves you, and you have to realise that it's just a normal City. It of course makes some Sense that your Home is the Place that's abnormal, yet you truly hoped that Lannisport as one of the Continent's largest Cities would hold something of interest. Quite literally anything would have done, but you can't be lucky all the time, so you decide that it's still fine for your first Day in the City.

You thought that as one of the greatest Realms on the Continent the Westerlands should be able to bring forth the best in the Human Race, yet even after searching for Hours the Capital of the Westerlands if you would even call it that as it is, has you left disappointed. The Term Smallfolk makes a lot more Sense now, and while you're fine with not finding anything of Value, finding that mess doesn't sit right with you, at all, for this isn't how a Human Being should live, you have seen Refugees that had it better than some of those poor Souls you found.

Once you do lie down to sleep, you quickly decide to change your Mission, for you genuinely feel for those People, but then you would have to fix the Lands of your Family before you can move on to the World anyway, so you guess helping out a few thousand Sheep, even if they remain such wouldn't be a total waste of time. And who knows, mayhaps your Luck will return in the coming Week, so as to allow you to get some decent Presents for your Siblings, and even if nothing changes, you can always invest a bit more hope, it's quite cheap after all.