Chapter 9 - Sealord

After they got out of the sept meralyn brought arthur home, she poured water into the wooden tub and began bathing him

When she scrubbed the blood off his body she moved on to his face "Close your eyes arthur"

She scrubbed his face,

then the lips. . . his lips disgusted her and now it was her chance to get rid of it.

she scrubbed his lips hard but the blood did not come off she tried again but nothing. When she tried again, she scrubbed too hard and arthur let out a small whimper.

" Arthur did he-he touch you" arthur didn't answer

meralyn thought the priest did touch him, 'it's my fault; She thought, she picked Arthur up, dressed him, and laid him on the bed, and headed out the door

in his dream, his skin was as red as blood and in front of him was arthur he went and grabbed his neck strangling him "No if you. . . kill...me" he was struggling to breathe "you. . . .will. . . loose." *Crunch he broke Arthurs's neck and in front of him was marelyn, his mother "What have you done" she said

arthur got up from the dead body and grabbed his mothers head "have you no love for me?" she said

Arthur remembered the love he had for his mother,

how she would take care of him,

help him, tell him stories. how she fed him

"And left you to the priest," a voice inside of him said

"NO! you mustn't," another voice said

he remembered the dead priest's white face and his wide-open mouth " Kill her" the priest whispered,

arthur tilted his mother's head up and bit down on her throat and breaking her apple, blood ran down his chin.

"I loved you," the dead mother said

arthur shoved her aside and went forward he saw nymera in the distance on her knees "Arthur please" she begged "Arthur I've loved you more than my sister, I would've never left you with the priest" Arthur grabbed her head and shoved his thumbs into her eyes she was screaming for him to stop but he didn't hear.

arthur had a sword in his hand, he moved forward seeing a thin woman with bright blue eyes, Slim jaws, and her hair was black with silver streaks running down. "please" she said softly but he shoved the cold steel right into her gut and she fell. . .

Arthur opened his eyes and slowly got up

he felt something missing inside of him but he didn't know what,

he broke his fast when marelyn came with a platter filled with cheese, bread, eggs, and crisp bacon..

when he was eating

meralyn placed his head on her chest, giving comfort and love to him, But arthur did not any have any love for her

nymera came inside "There here sister," she said meralyn nodded "Arthur we must go now, the sealord has invited us to his palace" she picked up Arthur and they headed out

when they got out of the brothel arthur saw two men

one was wearing a black jerkin with hard-boiled leather underneath and the other was rorin, he was wearing the same byrnie from yesterday and a new coif for his head the man in the jerkin said something and rorin nodded.

They followed the men to ragmans harbor and went into a ship with purple sails, when arthur got onto the deck he looked behind for his mother, but she was gone '𝑨𝒔 𝒊 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕;

They departed northeast for the palace when he was heading there he saw a few interesting places, he saw the titan it was so tall only the legs could be seen, for the rest of the body had been above the fogs,

he saw the arsenal surrounded with boats and men in armor,

he saw the drowned town with boys swimming from one house to another.

then he saw it, the sealords palace,

it was made of domes and towers, one of the towers had a golden thunderbolt on top of it

"amazing innit?" Arthur looked behind it was the man with the jerkin "my names krofe the sword of braavos" He said proudly "what's yours"

"Arthur," he said

Arthur looked at the sword in krofes belt it was thin and it had a tight handle with a round guard

rorin told him something and after that krofe didn't speak with him again.

they got out of the deck and went inside the palace,

it was beautiful, the walls had color like gold the curtains were like golden silk and the paintings were the best he'd ever seen "Whos that" Arthur asked krofe while looking at a painting "uthero zalyne the man who did the unmasking of braavos" he said "When he became the sealord he commanded forth all his men to sail to every part of the world letting them know the existence of braavos". . .

Finally, they reached the sea lord who sat on his chair

to his right was faro the priest's brother. . . .

{Ferrego antaryon}

Yesterday I heard one of my cousins had been murdered and the only witness was a boy of two

'𝑨 𝒃𝒐𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒘𝒐, 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌, 𝒇𝒂𝒓𝒐 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝒎𝒆 𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒂 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒌𝒂𝒓𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒔𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆; I guess I'll have to see for my self

"I'm telling you m'lord he can talk"

"Enough!" when he arrives we will see. . .

and soon enough he came

a bald boy hardly taller than my forearm his lips dark red, and his left eye was as black as the night and the other. . . was the color of an opaque gemstone '𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒈;

"Tell me, boy, What is your name?"

"Arthur!!" blurted out faro

"I didn't ask you did I faro?" Ferregon gave him a look and faro lowered his eyes

"Can ya talk Arthur?" he asked the boy

the boy looked up "yes m'lord"

'𝑺𝒐 𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒉.; ferregon got up and knelt in front of the boy, but he had to bend his back a little for him to see eye to eye "did you kill him?"

the boy tried saying something but he couldn't

"my guards found you in a hidden stairway which led to a room, what business had you there?"

the boy's eyes came to life with fear

"H-He was going t-t" the boy paused, the words caught in his tongue

ferregon knew what he was trying to say '𝑺𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖,𝒅𝒂𝒎𝒏 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒊 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅'𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕; "maester"

"yes m'lord," said the old maester

"take arthur out to the menagerie"

"yes m'lord" the maester grabbed Arthurs hand leading him out

ferregon looked back at faro who was in disbelief

ferregon rubbed his hands and said "So let's talk about your brother, ..faro". . . . .