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Third Person POV.
Somewhere on North.
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Jon's walk continued south for more than four hours, moving away from the defeated group he had left behind after so many injured. But they would survive; after all, he had broken some arms and ribs but no legs, so they would have to make their way back to the Wall.
He saw smoke in the distance and knew that the area should be within the range of the Night's Watch, so he found it strange and supposed it could be another patrol group. He began to approach to investigate.
Jon didn't even need to go all the way to the location before encountering some men in that direction, who seemed to be checking something in the forest. They weren't from the Night's Watch and wore grayer clothing, distinguishing them from the wildlings. Jon then approached them without being noticed.
"Damn, Craster always asks us to check this side of the forest..." one of them complained.
"At least we don't have to go up north where those crows went. Do you still remember that roar? There's no animal we know that can make a sound like that..." the man said.
And before he could hear his companion's response, the man only saw his friend falling backward the next moment. Without words to describe what had just happened, he, too, felt his body being pressed before he could do anything.
'What is this?!' he thought, terrified.
Jon walked to the scene calmly, his fingers pointing at the man with a faint glow. He was overusing his telekinesis, but it was what he had now.
"Well, what do we have here?" he said, finding something interesting in the clothing of those men. Although common and gray, slightly unusual, they still didn't seem like wildlings or crows; it was more like something worn south of the Wall. Jon had just found something to help him.
"It might be a little tight for my size, but it'll be useful until I can get something better," Jon murmured, examining which of the men was the largest to take his clothes.
"Who are you?" the man trapped in his telekinesis looked at him as if Jon were some kind of monster, trying to reach for his sword but was paralyzed.
"Well, I just want some information. Tell me, and I'll be on my way..." Jon said calmly, and the man didn't resist, spilling everything he knew to this guy who could kill him right there, unable to do anything.
"Thanks for the information. Now, take off your clothes," Jon said.
"What?!" He fell to the ground, now freed, staring at the stranger with a frown.
"Your clothes, I want them. You can use these," Jon said, pulling out some wildling clothes from his space and throwing them at the man so he wouldn't freeze. "I don't need your undergarments, just the pants, shirt, and coat." He spoke, and the man nodded, terrified.
In the end, Jon let him go, as he was no longer useful, and continued on his way, pondering what he had heard after storing the man's clothes. There seemed to be some kind of fort ahead, led by a wildling named Craster, who apparently made a deal with the Night's Watch.
Jon had asked what they were doing there, and their lord had ordered them to check the forest as he always did from time to time. However, something was strange. Jon recognized one thing: there was a malevolent energy left there. Jon knew that magical signature very well, which made him wonder.
"What are the White Walkers doing here? They don't attack this Craster... and he seems to know that. But what is his connection to those icy beasts?" Jon murmured, looking around, but found nothing except some footprints. In any case, there was nothing more to be done now. His priority was to the south, and so he continued.
Two days later, the ice line finally began to appear in the distance on the horizon. The dragon was still following him but kept a bit of distance. She still seemed upset with Jon as he pressed on.
'I should avoid Castle Black. There's a path by the bay near Bear Island, but I don't think it's ideal to pass through there...' Jon thought. 'So, I'll do exactly what Val had told me.'
He grabbed some iron hooks. Val had said that the free folk sometimes climbed the Wall, which he found impressive. They used those hooks for it. She had given the hooks to Jon, who felt it was a challenge and wanted to do it, after all, who could say they had climbed the Wall?
Opening the map given to him by Ygritte as a gift, it was poorly drawn, but there was some sense of what that region was like. A map was rare among the free folk, so Ygritte had given him something very valuable. Identifying where Castle Black was, since the entire Night's Watch was concentrated there, he still headed to the westernmost region of the Wall, avoiding alerting the Night's Watch.
"And to think my uncle wanted me to join the Watch at any cost," Jon murmured, thinking about the current state of the order, remembering how his uncle had tried to convince him with the idea of honor in following the path of a night's watchman. Not that he disrespected it, since some were there because of their oath, but they were still the minority. Most were made up of bandits and condemned men who opted to wear the black instead of having a part of their body mutilated. So Jon concluded that the Watch had become something very different from what it was created to be. To begin with, they didn't even know about the real enemy north of the Wall.
Another day passed on that side. Jon camped in an uninhabited cave and finally, by mid-afternoon, he arrived at the Wall, looking up at its 210-meter height or, as they said, 700 feet.
His eyes quickly scanned the entire area for any signs of life, but it was completely empty, showing that the Night's Watch was no longer what it once was or what he had heard in stories as a child.
"Well, let's get to it," Jon murmured, taking his first step. But then a shadow appeared behind him. He saw the dragon land next to him with a thud, the ground cracking. It seemed less upset than in the last few days, as Jon saw it looking at him without anger.
"Hm? You're back to following me?" Jon commented while the dragon, with red eyes, just stared at him before snorting and pointing its head toward his back, making Jon raise an eyebrow.
"You want to take me to the other side of the Wall?" It seemed like the dragon wanted to rebuild the bond they had, like a woman seeking her husband after a fight, but Jon shook his head. "Well, I appreciate the offer." He smiled at the dragon. "But, even so, I want to do this on my own," Jon said, determined to continue, as he had declared that climbing the Wall would be a challenge for him.
The dragon merely snorted, seeming to understand his words but looked at him as if he were an idiot. Jon didn't mind and began walking toward the Wall, calmly stepping over the ice.
Reaching its edge a moment later, with the dragon standing on the ice, watching, Jon pulled the hooks from his dimensional space and began attaching them to the ice. One by one, he started lifting his body, quickly climbing a few meters. He continued for the next several minutes calmly, keeping a steady pace, breaking the ice with his hooks and climbing, as if he wasn't getting tired at all. He firmly lodged each hook into the ice of the Wall, chipping away at it as he went.
And so it went, as the sun began to set, giving way to darkness. Jon was almost at the top of the Wall when he felt a crack in front of him and saw blocks of ice starting to fall due to his constant strikes and cracks against the ice. He simply moved his hand, calmly making the ice shift away from him. Shrugging, he continued, finding it simple enough, and reached the top a moment later without any difficulty.
"Well, that wasn't much of a challenge," Jon muttered, now standing atop the Wall, already looking toward the next task, even though it was dark.
'Let's make this more interesting,' he thought, and instead of looking for a ladder on the edge, he simply threw himself off the south side of the Wall.
His body began to fall, but he quickly grabbed a hook and drove it into the ice, slowing his descent by using his strength to hold his body as he broke through the ice with the hook. Jon descended about 30 meters below the Wall's edge in just a few seconds before finally stopping. Once again, he released the hook and began to fall once more. He repeated this process until he finally reached the ground, leaving a groove along that side of the Wall and landing after a final 4-meter drop.
It had taken him 2 hours to climb the Wall on the other side, but only three minutes to descend on this side. He was lucky that his body had been strengthened; after all, no shoulder or joint could withstand the impact he had taken doing these superhuman feats.
"Well, let's find a place to camp..." he murmured as he looked ahead, beginning to walk. The terrain was completely flat, but this moment was perfect, as it was nighttime, and any scouts, whether from the Watch or any noble house to the south, would hardly spot him.
He continued until he entered one of the most fertile lands in the North, but at the same time, the most uninhabitable, due to the Night's Watch not being able to cultivate this area with the number of people the order housed.
There were forests and fields, which, in Jon's opinion, were a waste caused by a queen over 200 years ago, known as the good queen and wife of Jaehaerys, considered the best king of Westeros before Viserys, who later caused the Dance of the Dragons. Even so, despite them being his ancestors... he still criticized them openly, as an example of this was how the queen brought a foolish fate to the North if he thought like a king.
In any case, Jon found a place to camp, and the white dragon appeared shortly after, landing near him. He chose a spot to sleep, while the creature snorted, creating ice, as these lands no longer had snow like north of the Wall. It seemed displeased with the warmer climate to the south.
"You'll have to get used to it if you want to stay with me..." Jon commented, while the dragon just snorted as usual. Jon shook his head and went to sleep after putting out the fire.
The next morning, he dressed in the clothes he had taken from one of Craster's soldiers. "This will make things easier. At least I won't be branded a wildling the moment someone lays eyes on me," Jon said.
He glanced at the dragon, also waking up. "Now we have a pretty long walk to Winterfell," Jon murmured, as he had only covered a part of the journey, but still needed to cross half of the North. However, the dragon appeared at the sound of this, coming to his side and again pointing to its back with its snout.
"A ride... that's not bad," Jon had to admit as he looked at the dragon with a smile. "Alright then, I'll accept your ride. And with this, we'll save a lot of time," he said, stepping forward to climb onto the creature's back.
"You'll have to follow my instructions, even if you don't like them. Otherwise, we'll never reach our destination," Jon warned, though the dragon didn't respond. He knew the creature understood his words.
In the end, the dragon flapped its wings and soared into the sky, while Jon tried to remember the old maps from his memories more than 12 years ago, trying to navigate toward the heart of the North—Winterfell. The dragon gained altitude to avoid being seen, moving through the clouds toward the south.
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