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Arthur looked at his reflection seeing the two scars on his chest one from the lizard and he did not know where the other one came from. He looked at his head '𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒄𝒖𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒔𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅, 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒕𝒔 𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔;
Arthur was dressed in a small doublet that the maester bought for him when he answered all his questions about the free city's, Yi ti and sothoryos.
Arthur learned a lot from the maester, he learned the language of braavos And low valyrian he learned all that last year, and this year he's almost finished with the history of Old Valyria
Old Valyria intrigued Arthur a lot and but he was more interested in sothoryos, they mentioned monsters lurking in the jungles.
A few weeks ago he went to the moon pool and saw krofe fighting another man, It was beautiful their stances were flawless, But krofe found a weakness in the other man's defense and thrusted His sword puncturing the man's throat Killing him
He always liked blood, For he was born in it.
After that krofe went back inside the palace leaving the man there, arthur took the dead man's dagger Ever since then He's been practicing with it.
Arthur was stronger and faster than the other kids but he did not know. He was four feet at the age of four. The sealord recommended that he train with krofe but he rejected him. Arthur wanted knowledge.
Two days ago arthur wanted to know what was inside rats so he found one in the alley. grabbed it and slammed it on the wall knocking the rat out,
Arthur proceeded to gut the rat with his dagger and experimented with its body and organs.
After that, arthur went on gutting more,
the largest animal he gutted was a crippled cat.
After that Arthur found what he was searching He took notes On how the heart functioned the liver the lungs. Every organ he drew on his journal and wrote its function.
One day Meralyn found his notes and threw up on his bed. After that, she was disgusted with arthur She never confronted Him but He knew.
in a few days, it would be his name day and the unmasking of braavos.
He headed out the door seeing whores everywhere '𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒈𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒕𝒉;
Arthur never liked whores he despised them and his so-called mother, he never got the chance to confront her but he will on his name day.
Arthur headed out of the brothel looking like the child of a noble. He found a guard waiting to escort him to the palace when he was going to the harbor, every eye went on Arthur.
That made him uneasy, When they reached the harbor krofe was on the deck giving Arthur a warming welcome When they got on the deck krofe invited him inside the cabin And they ate
krofe was telling him about his journeys, his skills, and all the people he's fought,
krofe thought he enjoyed his stories and japes but he didn't know arthur was wearing a mask.
Arthur despised everyone, he viewed them as inferior because of his intellect. He used the maester to help him, He used to manipulate his mother for money that he would spend on ale or wine, sometimes he would steal money from her as well.
Arthur knew that she knew he was stealing but she was afraid to confront him, The boy she took under her wing was now a monster made by her own doing.
Arthur used everyone, he used the maester, the sealord his so-called mother, and all the kids to do his biddings. when they reached the palace the sealord personally met them at the docks.
A month ago the sealords wife had a miscarriage and ever since then He was warming up to arthur he reminded him of the son he could've had.
Arthur took control of the sealord emotions he had the lord in his grasp.
When they went inside the palace the sealord offered him, sweets, cakes, Ruby's, Amethysts, Sapphires, Anything he could to make Arthur happy but arthur didn't want those what could those possibly help him?
Arthur smiled but he tried not to show it, he loved it when they begged.
"Arthur are you sure you don't want to be a swordsman? you would make the perfect one " The sealord said desperately trying to convince arthur
"No m'lord I would like to study with maester Harwin and learn as much as I can from him then I'll learn water dancing"
"you are most prudent Arthur," Said the sealord in a wide smile.
"Yes he is most wise m'lord" the old maester caught arthur off-guard he looked behind seeing the old man, he had a long beard and a hunched back
"Arthur has learned things that would take any man Years to learn," said rorin as he came up from behind the maester he was wearing ringmail with a Byrnie over it
Rorin gave him a proud look
Arthur and the Maester went upstairs to study and the sealord, rorin, and krofe discussed things about finance.
Arthur always wondered why the maester wasn't wearing a chain one day he asked him and the maester replied saying that the citadel took his chain and after that, he came to braavos.
They were studying high valyrian Arthur was a quick learner but this language was always hard to learn. After they were done with his studying he would go to the menagerie he would see all the Animals thinking about how they function. The lizard that attacked arthur was killed and it's cage was replaced by some elephants.
Arthur sailed home and went on foot alone.
Nobody dared touch him because they thought he was an antaryon. But the kids especially the ones near the drowned town picked on arthur, Hitting him, kicking him. Arthur hated them but when they found where he lived they would always come by once or twice a week to pick on him. but they were here now and they took arthur unnoticed one of the boys shoved arthur into the nearby alley the other one grabbed his mouth making arthur unable to speak
And the third one he was the most dangerous one of them all, he was a boy of two and ten and was the group's leader he got off the floor and grinned at arthur he punched his stomach so hard He lost his balance and fell to the ground they surrounded him and began kicking.
After a few minutes, one of Arthur's teeth were broken and blood came out of his mouth.
Arthur was gasping for air until the third boy said said "Arthurs thirsty, Let's give him some water " The three boys grinned '𝒏𝒐. . .𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆; They unlaced their pants and pissed on arthur one of them was trying to hit his eye while the other one was trying to get it in his mouth. The third boy was pissing all over him. When they were done they gave him one last kick and headed off.