Chapter 545: Master's Moves (Part II)
"Commander-in-Chief...... Commander-in-chief, Miss Arya intends to assassinate the Queen, and the Unsullied are arrested!"
"Poof, what?" Egger was eating breakfast when he heard the news, and was so shocked that he even vomited half of the food in his mouth back on his plate, "When is it, where is she now?"
Robb is now heading to Winterfell with the armies of the four northern princes, intending to lead them to Daenerys to be a vassal at the latest, and will arrive the day after tomorrow at the latest, what will he do if he returns home and finds that his little sister has been imprisoned as an assassin?
This is no coincidence, it is precisely because of this that Varys saw this and planned this thing!
"Just now! You told us to be aware of the anomaly, so someone saw it and reported it to me immediately. Now it seems that he has been brought to His Majesty, in the guest room. β
"This damn dog eunuch. The flame of anger was ignited, Iger stood up suddenly, and when he got up, he clenched his fists and slammed the tabletop, shaking the wooden planks and dishes with a loud noise, startling the soldiers who were still eating breakfast around him, "Take me over!"
He strode towards the door, didn't even bother to put on his warm coat and pushed the door into the cold wind, this burning fire to rush to find someone quickly infected the other people in the restaurant, even the personnel who were not on duty today or even the guards at all put down the breakfast in their hands, picked up the guy and followed.
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Out of obedience to the monarch and fear of the two-stirring sticks of the world of ice and fire, Egg "bowed" down after taking Winterfell and welcoming Daenerys and his party, holding the arrogance he was accustomed to as the boss in his stomach. Both the Queen, Petyr, and Varys were restrained and cautious, for fear of giving the impression of arrogance or threat to the superiors and colleagues in the power core of the future new dynasty.
But this time, Varys's tactics blew him up.
No matter how low-key and amiable he is, the Land-giving Army with the Night's Watch as the core is the most powerful armed force in the Seven Kingdoms at the moment, and he is also the current de facto boss north of Neck. With the Black-Clad Legion actually controlling the entire Winterfell Castle and beyond, this eunuch dared to provoke him on his own territory with the lives of the people he cared about!
Is it tolerable or intolerable?
With Egger's temperament and good temper, it was actually a bit difficult to provoke him completely, but this time Varys succeeded.
He can use Arya to get insights into her father's latest thoughts, he can use Arya to fool her brother around, he can rip Arya's pants and spank her ass...... But everyone else, they can't touch half of this girl's hair!
There's no reason, it's just not going to work!
In order to prepare for the next ceremony of allegiance to Daenerys of the northern princes, he was busy until the middle of the night until the second half of the night before falling asleep in the morning. At breakfast just now, he was so sleepy that he almost couldn't take his eyes off. But at this moment, he was full of energy, rage, and murderous intent, and walked briskly towards the Queen's collapse in the center of the castle, completely leaving his calm and clumsy intentions behind...... I kept imagining the image of Varys chopped into pieces, so much so that it wasn't until he was pushed under his nose by the spear of the Unsullied that the situation was a little less pretty.
Forty or fifty men with swords and swords came straight to the queen's residence, and anyone who saw this scene would mistakenly think that it was a mutiny and forced the palace, and it was no wonder that the queen's guards guarding the door raised their weapons as if they were facing a great enemy.
"What are you doing?" Egg regained a trace of reason, frowned and turned around, and waved his hand behind his back: "If you are not on duty today, you will be disbanded immediately, you are not allowed to stay, and those on duty are waiting for me outside!"
After dispersing the soldiers who didn't know what he wanted to do but who were just enthusiastically following him, and ordered the guards to wait outside the house, the unsullied man who guarded the door put down his spear and let Egger enter the guest room building alone.
The 500-seat hall of Winterfell had been used as a camp for the land-granting army, and the largest room on the first floor of the guest room had been temporarily requisitioned by the queen to receive guests and attend business. When Egg entered, there were about twenty or thirty people, most of whom were Unsullied soldiers and Daenerys' attendants or court members, and due to their small size, they were already a little stuffy and crowded.
Daenerys sat calmly on the high chair at the front, Missandei and Varys standing beside her, one left and one right, while Arya stood in the middle of a small clearing surrounded by the crowd - exactly where the hapless bastards who had been whipped by Littlefinger the day before yesterday were standing, like an exhibit, in front of everyone's eyes. To Egg's relief, though, Petyr had already taken a step forward, and was now holding one of the girl's arms and standing beside her, most likely to prevent Arya from confronting the queen or talking nonsense with a hot head.
He squeezed into the crowd, forced his emotions to go to the arena and stood beside Arya, sandwiched her between her with Little Finger, left and right, and saluted the queen: "Good morning, Your Majesty...... Can anyone come and tell me what's going on here?"
"You don't need to pretend to be a good person!" the little she-wolf shouted subconsciously, apparently not yet able to come out of the awkwardness of Egger's betrayal of the North.
"Don't mess around!" Egger turned his head to glare at her, lowering his voice and snorting.
He actually yelled at himself, obviously more aggrieved and angry, but for some reason, the bastard's unquestionable tone and the ensuing majesty had a strange magic that made people's hearts tremble, and Arya was so frightened that her little heart fluttered, and not only could she not help but want to listen to him, but even the wounds on her ass and between her legs and the heart of her legs that were about to heal began to ache again.
After all, she wasn't stupid or couldn't think of it to the point of dying, knowing that she was in danger and that Egger was going to protect herself, she grunted angrily twice, pursed her lips and stopped talking.
So all eyes in the room were drawn to the new Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch - everyone had already known the queen's "new favorite", but Egger had always given everyone the impression that he was only "very good at business" and "very good at fighting", and it was the first time they discovered that this adult still had such a tough side. Standing in front of Miss Stark at the moment, he felt like a beast protecting its cubs, grinning and leaking a momentum of choosing people to devour.
After a moment of silence, Daenerys's little clerk, Missandei, got the Queen's nod and acquiesced: "Lord Egger, Miss Stark was just wandering around the castle with this sword, and when the guards found out, they invited her over and asked about the situation. β
Egger fixed his eyes and saw that what was in Missandei's hand was nothing else, but the small stabbing sword that he had confiscated and let Arya keep for herself, the "sewing needle".
Could it be that this crazy girl really had the stupid idea of assassinating Daenerys again?
As if hearing Egger's heart, the girl immediately cried out in annoyance: "What do you mean by loitering! I'm just in a bad mood, so I'm just going to the top of the library to blow the wind!"
Standing on the other side of the Queen, Varys shook his head with his trademark kind smile: "Miss Stark, may I say that it is not wise to walk around the castle with a sharp weapon at such a sensitive time......"
"Shut up, Lord Varys. After listening to this round of conversation, Egger already had an idea of what was going on, and as he settled down, his anger grew stronger and strongerβwith Arya's rectum, if she really wanted to assassinate the queen, she would never have been caught and denied it. He forcibly suppressed his killing intent and spoke, determined not to be gentle anymore, "Your Majesty, are the soldiers who 'invited' Miss Arya in the house, I have a few questions for you." β
With the exception of Robert Baratheon, no one had ever shut up Varys in the middle of his sentence. Egger's reckless and reckless behavior not only made the eunuch stunned on the spot, but also made Daenerys sit up straight with some amusement: "Here, Black Shell, you come to answer the question of the Commander-in-Chief." β
"Black Shell" is an ordinary Unsullied who, like their leader "Grey Bug", chose this strange name as his lifelong code name on the day he was liberated by Daenerys. He was the leader of the squad because he knew the lingua franca, and after hearing the Queen's order, he stood out from the crowd and nodded to Egger, waiting for his question.
"Hello, Black Shell. When you 'invited' Arya today, was she at the top of the Library Tower?"
"That's right. β
"The library tower is nearly two hundred feet away from the queen's apartment, and the two buildings are not interconnected, what makes you think that she is a threat to the queen?"
"From the top of the library tower overlooked the guest room, and the young lady was carrying a sword. β
"Hehe......" Iger sneered unceremoniously, looked up at Varys, who had recovered from his stunned streak, and stared at the eunuch like this, and asked the Unsullied one last question: "Your Excellency Black Shell, as the queen's guard, you should be on guard on the ground around the guest room, how could you find a girl on the top of the library tower above you in the distance, and you can see that she has a small sword?"
"I didn't find out, it was Yonezerdan who told me that he saw Miss Stark walking towards the library with her sword in hand. β
"This is my home! You can ...... where I want to go."
"Do I have to shut you up too?" Egg turned his head to glare at Arya again, stifling back the rest of her shouting.
As he expected, it was impossible for the Unsullied to get his hands dirty against the Starks for Varys. They are only loyal to Daenerys, and this time they are just using it as if they were being used by Petyr the day before yesterday - they were used as guns by someone with a heart.
Iger didn't know the "Yonezedan", but he was sure that even if he had asked the queen to summon him and ask him who had instructed him, he would only reply that he had happened to pass by and saw a girl with a sword, so he kindly reminded the guards and did not instruct the Unsullied to arrest her.
As the Queen's Guard responsible to Daenerys, the Unsullied are caught in the dilemma of responsibility: if someone reports information to them that is a suspected threat, even if they don't think it or even guess that it's a pitfall, they jump into it out of the principles of caution and procedural correctness.
Not to mention that Varys does everything without leakage, even Iger himself knows how to command remotely, so that others can't point the finger at himself who is behind the scenes.
He angrily scolded Varys just now and told him to shut up, and he secretly expected him to fight back, but unfortunately he didn't wait, it seems that he can't challenge this eunuch in public today. But it doesn't matter, the top priority is to protect Arya first, and how to deal with the enemy can be thought about later.
"Well, then, Your Majesty, I think things are already clear. Egg looked away from staring at Varys, tried to relax his fierce expression, and looked at Daenerys again, "I'm Arya's swordsmanship teacher, this little sword has grown up with her since she was a child, and she almost never leaves her, she only carries it with her out of habit, not because she has malicious intentions towards you;
"Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, you have misunderstood. "Missandei, as the Queen's personal lady-in-waiting, knows that it is time to appease Daenerys at this time," His Majesty did not suspect that Miss Stark was an assassin, nor did he deliberately embarrass her, but only made a slight inquiry out of caution. β
Iger didn't intend to accept this, but after the little black girl finished speaking, he continued to speak at the same speed and volume as before: "In addition, I would like to point out to you that Winterfell is the home of the Stark family, and although Your Majesty is their allegiance to the monarch, he is also a guest here. It was already a good ceremony for the master to vacate the entire large guest room as His Majesty's temporary residence, and it was impossible to overstate the strict security measures implemented by the Innocent Guards in and around this building, but they left this building...... As a member of the Stark family, Arya wants to carry a sword and a knife or a spear on her body, and whether she wants to wander around the library tower, the arsenal or the school yard, it is her right as the master of this place, and she is not obliged to report and explain to anyone! It is great arrogance and rudeness for a guest to 'invite' her master here for some reason and to 'question' like a prisoner. I hereby request Your Majesty to release Miss Arya immediately, and to have the Black Shell apologize to Miss Stark for causing this misunderstanding!"
Amid the sound of inhalation, silence returned to the room, and Iger heard the whispered reminder from Littlefinger beside him telling him to calm down, but chose to pretend not to hear.
Was he carried away by anger? a little, perhaps, but not to the point where he lost his mind and realized that the request was slightly overbearing and excessive, and would displease Daenerys.
But he decided to do it anyway.
Leading the Land-Grant Army to raid the North and take Winterfell overnight was a military victory that could go down in history, but politically, it made the "Northern Prestige" and "Stark Favorability" that he had spent years hard to brush up both zero and even negative. But now that Robb has honestly surrendered to Daenerys and begun to persuade the northern princes to take sides as a feudal lord, it is likely that Egger's plan to make the Stark family the core family in the "Northern Autonomy Plan" will most likely not change - the wolf family is all honest people, and honest people are better controlled, rather than changing people, it is better to let them stay in place.
And since it has been decided to let Stark continue to serve as the guardian of the North, it is natural for such a powerful family to seize every opportunity to regain its prestige and favorability.
Of course, if it is only for this consideration, taking the risk of losing the "Daenerys favorability" or even the "queen's favor value" to protect the cub in public, it is obviously suspected of picking sesame seeds and throwing watermelon. The bigger motivation that drove Iger to do this was that she didn't want Arya to suffer this grievance again.
This is one of the few people he really cares about and cares about in this unaccompanied world. Attacking Winterfell and bombarding the main fort had broken her heart, but it was a desperate move, but now that the battle between Petyr and Varys had affected the pond fish, it was a real disaster for her. Half a minute into the house, Egg realized that Daenerys didn't mean to make a big deal out of it, and that if he just wanted to save Arya's life, he could do nothing...... But Arya is his cheap apprentice and little lover, and he not only wants to make sure that she is safe today, but also wants to be willful and seek justice for her, and ask for an explanation!
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