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A/N: Sorry for the longer delay between chapters this time around. I had been busier than usual these past few weeks. Regardless, I hope you enjoy this chapter.

"Lady Stark," Sansa read aloud, "We have never met but I am writing this letter to you on behalf of your brother Jon Snow. As I am sure you must have realized by now based on what your brother has told you, I used my warging abilities to guide the raven I sent to your camp with this message. Apologies if that...supernatural action frightened some of your men but it was the fastest way I could think of to send word of recent events, given that last I heard none of you were staying in a castle."

The redhead paused for a moment and looked around, realizing she had been right in her earlier assessment as the others stared at the letter with increasing interest.

"At any rate," She went on, "I am writing this letter to let you know that Jon Snow managed to make his way to the North Grove with the giant Wun Wun and succeeded and convincing our forces and those of the gathered giants to join his cause..."

"Wait, the North Grove?!" Lyanna Mormont interrupted with wide eyes. "That place beyond the Wall is actually real?"

"And Giants?!" Owen, her sworn Captain, said in shock. "As in, many of them?"

Sansa smiled lightly at that, pleased at being in the know. "Yes. And yes. Jon told me about it before we parted ways on our respective missions. He wanted to make sure he could recruit the remaining Giants before the White Walkers could overwhelm them. Or at least get them to safety south of the Wall even if they wouldn't fight so that their enormous corpses would be denied to the Army of the Dead. And it seems he succeeded in bringing them to our side."

"Hmph," Lady Mormont hummed in deep thought. "We may still be quite outnumbered by the combined forces under House Bolton but having an allied battalion of giants would be a game-changer if half the stories I have heard about them are true."

"Let's hope so," Davos Seaworth commented. "Anything else of note on that letter, my Lady?"

Sansa turned back down to read the words and continued. "You should also be aware that now that I know where your camp is due to the raven's eyes, we are marching to your location to bolster your forces. And to be clear, we are not just heading there with giants and their large herds of mammoths," She added loudly, "But also with a little over 500 spearwives lead by Princess Val..."

"Val is alive?!" Tormund said in surprise before a wide smile crossed his features.

"That is good to hear," He stated, clearly in a better mood, "especially since now we can also count on her forces."

"Who is she?" Sansa asked, realizing that she hadn't heard that name before.

"Val is the younger sister of the deceased wife of Mance Ryder, our last King Beyond the Wall. She is a fierce fighter herself and had become more involved in organizing and leading our various spearwives before the Battle of Castle Black," The large man explained. "She wanted to fight on the night of our attack back then but Mance wanted to keep her forces in reserve for the second day of fighting. For what is worth, she is well respected among many in the various tribes and clans and while I can't say for sure, it has been suspected by some of us that ever since Mance's wife and her baby died in childbirth, that he has been trying to groom Val to be in a good position to gain our favor and arise as Queen Beyond the Wall in case he died before he could bring us south of the frontier. That's why some of us have started calling her princess. I guess the title stuck among her spearwife followers."

Then he frowned. "If that part is true, then I imagine she went to the North Grove with the Giants to regroup but why she couldn't then fulfill Mance's instructions I can't say."

"The letter may shed some light into that," Lyanna Mormont said. "But before you continue, may I ask what are spearwives?"

"Oh, that is just what we call the women among the Free Folk that are also warriors," Tormund explained. "And if I recall correctly, the ones under Val were some of or best fighters, women or not."

"Huh," The ruler of Bear island said with a lot of interest evident in his tone. "I would like to meet Val and some of her spearwife friends one day then."

Sansa gasped at that moment, prompting the others to look at her. "That might happen sooner than you think," She said in surprise.

Then, she held the letter in her hands more tightly and went on.

"And just so you know, we are actually close by," The redhead said, to the shock of everyone in the room. "Normally, it would have taken us a couple of weeks to make it to your location even with the gates of Castle Black wide open for once but as I am sure you must have suspected by now, there were more powers at work when that Red priestess I have heard about used the magic of her religion to successfully revive your brother. And now his own powers begun to grow to the point that he can tap to the Weirdwood root network of trees that the Children of the Forest of old first connected in ways that have not been done since the early Dawn Age, back when their magic was at its height: to use his own supernatural might to transport an army at lightning speed through the root network from one weirwood tree to another. And the closest one we found to your camp's location on Jon's map was less than a league from you; in one of the mountains close to the coastline."

There was a very, very long moment of silence in the tent as everyone digested that piece of information. In the end, Sansa continued, since it seems they didn't know what to say to that and her own reaction was more subdued as she actually knew that her brother had become a god.

"So, you can expect us soon and know we have come to join your cause. I hope we can get along when we meet in person," She said aloud, her face frowning suddenly which was probably not left unnoticed by the others. "Signed by Josera Snow, bastard of Lord Gregor from House Forrester and Warg Guardian of the North Grove."

Before they could even comment about the relation between that man and the House under siege that they had been discussing not so long ago, they started hearing a commotion outside. Having an idea of what to expect after the contents of the letter were revealed to them, Sansa headed outside of the tent with the others close behind. And then she smiled at the horizon beyond the camp. The giants had truly arrived to reinforce them.

Just as her beloved brother had assured her.

A/N: Some fans of Game of Thrones had said online in a joking fashion that certain characters gained the power of teleportation off-screen due to how fast they traveled from one point to another in the last few seasons despite the vast geographic distances. Well, here is an in-universe explanation/cover story for said teleportation powers XD

Oh and for those that have read the books, remember that since the show is essentially an alternate universe to the book's canon in George R. R. Martin's own words and my thread's launch point started there, my version of Val is a bit different. Partially due to this being a parallel version and also because of the changes I made to compensate for her lack of appearances in the TV show before bringing her in here.

I hope you enjoyed this!