He Lives

Aegon had Woken, But His Chest Was Heavy, His Vision Clouded, and His Body Numbed and Sore. He Was Being Given Milk of The Poppy, and Every So Often Couldn't Take it in. He Was Healing, and His Body Though Pained Was Healing. Aegon Had Been Given A Cane TO Walk With Until he Was Fit To Walk Again Unaided. Aegon, For His part, Was Only Slightly Feeling Different. His Sexual Appetites Though Impaired By His Weakened State, Were However, No Less Dimmed. Already, Had He Seduced Lady Alys Karstark Into His Bed, and Taken Her Maidenhead With It. One By One, The Northern Ladies Were Speared by His Cock, Until Only Sansa, Arya, Myrcella, and The Old Or Married Ladies Remained. Every time Alys, Dacey, Talia, Jeyne, or Some Over Formerly Virgin Northern Girl He'd Fucked, Came To His Bedside, He'd Harden In Anticipation. He'd Found A Special Sexual Liking In Alys, Talia, and Jeyne.

It Was Relatively Simple To Bed Alys and Jeyne, and Though Talia Took More Convincing In Getting Into His Bed, it Was No Less Rewarding. Aegon Decided The Three Northern Girls Would Serve As His Royal Paramours, and While Talia Was Worried For Her Family, Aegon Promised Her He Would Ensure Their Safety in Her Absence, Even Promising To Take Her Brother Ethan As His Personal Page and Eventual Squire. And With Paramour's Now At His Bedside, All That Was Left Was For Him To Find A Lawful Wife.

Aegon Was Now More or Less Healed, and, At This Point, Was Having A Chess Game With Rob Stark. Aegon Had Explicitly Told Robb To Not To Hold Back, A Choice He Regretted In Hindsight As Robb Had Left Him With Three Pawns, A Rook, A Septon, and His Queen Protecting His King. Throughout The Game and Whenever A Piece Was Taken, Or At Risk Of Being Taken, Aegon Questioned Robb On The Significance Of Each Piece, The Sacrifice Made, and Importance of Name, Shape, and Duty. Aegon Did This In Part To Throw Robb's Concentration Off and To Impart Some Philosophical Wisdom.

Despite Several Opportunities Left, Aegon Chose To Cut His Losses, and Forfeited The Match. "Why'd You Forfeit The Match?" Asks Robb. "Pretend This Is Represented By The Baratheon Rebellion. Is It Not Wiser To Simply Lose When You Can, Rebuild Your Strength, and Then Strike When Your Foes Are Weakest?" Asks Aegon, As He Starts To Leave As He Is or Rather He Was Meant To Have Left Already. Aegon Wanted This Gane With Robb To See How Keen or Strong His Subject's Mind Was, and Suitably Satisfied, Left.

His Next Stop Was Casterly Rock, Where He Hoped For A Mutually Beneficial Favor From Lord Tywin. Aegon Also Had A Pair Of Potential Dealmaker's Should Tywin Not Agree At First. But Aegon Doubted He'd Need To Use Both Dealmaker's.

The Royal Progress Was Now In The Westerlands, and Was Making Fast Time To The Rock Of House Lannister.