Meeting With The Lords of the North

One of The Biggest Downsides to A Royal Progress was Having To Listen to Various Complaints from Countless Lords and Ladies, But In One Thing, Aegon Would Not Be Dissuaded.........

Aegon Sat Between His Hand, Lord Jon Connington, and His Aunt, Princess Daenerys, Listening to The Concerns of Various Northern Lords. When They had Finished, Aegon Spoke Up. ''My Lords, As House Stark says, Winter Is Coming! But Summer has Gone On Longer Than Ever Before In Recorded History, but Nowhere is this more apparent Than Here in the North, especially when Winter comes. Which is Why I Intend To Have Every Northern House Poole Their Coin Together, To Help The Crown Bring In More Grain for The Long Winter That is Surely Coming.'' Says Aegon to The Surprise of His Hand. ''But, There is Also The Matter of This So-Called King-Beyond-The-Wall, Mance Rayder. The Night's Watch is Severely Undermanned, not to mention Lacking even the most Basic Of Resources. Lord Manderly You Will Send Your Fastest Ship To Kingslanding, It will Carry a Letter Bearing My Personal Seal, Ordering My Master of Coin, Lord Tyrion Lannister, to Make The Necessary Arrangements, My Master of Whispers Lord Varys will be Directed to Ferrer out the Largest and Most Easily Acquired Stocks, My Ships, Will then Bring These stores to The North where will distribute them amongst the Northern Houses.'' Says Aegon to the Great applause of the Lords.

''Your Grace, Forgive Me, But You Haven't Exactly said what this has to do with the King-Beyond-The-Wall.'' Says Lord Stark Speaking Up. ''Indeed, I As King of Westeros Am Calling For The Great Houses of Westeros To Rally together and stamp out this threat to the Night's Watch before it begins. Lord Robert Baratheon! Step Forward.'' Says Aegon as He calls out His Father's Archenemy. ''Yes Your Grace?'' Asks Robert Barely Staying Civil to His King. ''Let me Make One Thing absolutely Clear, I Am Not My Father! But If You step out of Line With Me or House Targaryen Even Once, I Will have You Beheaded and Give Storms End To Lord Renly. However, The Realm Has A Small Council, On Which There is A Master of Ships and A Lord Commander of The Kingsguard. But No Leader of Troops. As of This Moment Forward, I am Creating A New Small Council Seat, The Master of War. You Will Fulfill This Role until Mance Rayder has been defeated. This is Not A Request. The Master of War Shall Lead Our Royal Armies, Plan our Strategies, and Maintain Our Royal Armies Arsenals and Numbers as Part of His Duty. I Am Also Dismissing My Uncle Viserys from The Small Council As Master Ships.'' Says Aegon as The Group of Northern Lords looks Shocked.

''One Last Thing, Lord Robert, if You Are willing, I Would also Name You Leader of The Vanguard to deal with Mance Rayder.'' Says Aegon. ''It'd Be an Honor Your Grace.'' Says Robert With an almost sincere voice. ''Excellant, Lord Connington, You Will Sail For Kingslanding Bearing My Letter. I Will Aldo Write To Lord Tyrell Asking Him To Begin Shipping Large Quantities of Grain and Food To Moat Callin. Lord Karstark Will Then Help Escort Them Here To Winterfell, Where Will Divide Them amongst The Northern Houses and Then Send the Rest to The Nights Watch. I'm also Giving The Order Then Hundreds of Newly Forged Weapons to Made which Will also be sent to The Watch. That Will Be All.'' Says Aegon as He Stands Up and Leaves the Room.

Aegon Had Written His Letters, and Sent His Uncle Oberyn with His Hand to Kingslanding. Now Though His Own Stay In The North Was Nearing its End. He Had Much of The Seven Kingdoms Left to Explore on His Progress. He Had Become Unsettled by His Uncle Viserys, and Had Written A Second Letter Detailing That If Viserys Spoke out About the Dismissal, Became Enraged, and Threatened Reprisal in any Way or Form, He was Banished Not Only From House Targaryen, But From Westeros. Varys would then see to it every person of import In Essos was Informed of this, and That Viserys was Mentally Unstable. He Simply Couldn't Trust Viserys Any More, The Man Was Getting More and More Unstable By The Day.

He Had Decided That To Ensure Peace Amongst House Targaryen, Viserys would have to Leave. He'd Never fully trust Viserys, so how would he be able to trust him to advise him as A Member of the Small Council. Aegon Began To consider Who would Be A Fitting replacement, He Could Offer It Lord Mace Tyrell, But Maybe A More Suitable Option would be Lord Victarion Greyjoy. Victarion Was A More Trustworthy Reaver amongst The House Greyjoy Men. But On The Other Hand, He Could Offer it To Lord Blackfish Tully.

Aegon Soon Pushed These Thoughts From his Mind, Because His Eye Was Caught By A Beautiful Fair Maiden, The Granddaughter Of Lord Wyman Manderly, Lady Wylla Was Unwed, Intelligent, Witty, Curious, and Nowhere Close To Ugly. She Was Descended From The Reach, and Naming Her Grandfather As Master Of Ships Would Give Him Cause To See Her Regularly. Plus, Aegon, Like Her, Was Unwed, and He Could Easily Take One Wife Before Taking Two, Few Would Object, Fewer Still Would Deny Him That. Taking A Chance Aegon Kept His Eyes On Wylla, Letting His Gaze Linger On Her Long Enough That She Would Feel It. Aegon Would Keep This Up From Time To Time, and Made It More Prominent In Lord Wyman's Presence.

Naturally One Would Approach Him Sooner Or Later, But Aegon Had Another Matter In That He Was Becoming Followed By Several Noble Girls, It Only Stopped When He Rode To Moles Town and Bedded The Redheaded Ros At The Brothel, Even Taking Back To Winterfell. Robert Had Bedded Her The Night Before and Aegon Could Easily Understand Why. Irregardless Aegon Was In The Godswood Looking At The Carved Face In The Weirwood Tree.

Aegon Was Tracing His Hand Over The Heart Tree's Face When He Heard A Twig Snap. In An Instant Aegon Had Whirled Around, Blade In Hand, Sword In The Other, Ready Strike Down Any Foe, But Found None. He Found None Other Than......................................