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"Robb, with your father dead, you are now Lord of the North," said Catelyn. "And thus your every action is important. You are right--we cannot refuse this royal order without appearing suspect. However, we may follow the order in such a way so as to keep an advantage for ourselves."

Robb nodded. "I was thinking I could march south, in strength. With my armies behind me..."

"No! No!" hissed Catelyn. "This young King would take this as defiance. No, there is a more subtle path of gathering allies. Your cousin Robin is in the same position as you--a young man, now a Lord Paramount, his father newly dead. If we go see him and my sister in the Vale of Arryn, we can gather allies even as we follow the King's orders. By taking one fast ship in White's Harbor, we can be in Gullstown and then the Eyrie in a week. And even if the King suspected us of plotting he could not prove it."

Robb considered things. On the one hand, there was a certain truth in what his mother was saying. On the other, what faint rumors he'd heard of his cousin, Robin Arryn, suggested that he was a sickly young man, with a childish mind, despite being only a little younger than Robb...