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"Will, stay at the foot of the mountain. Tyrion said.

"I'm going up to meet Lady Leaves. ”

"You go up, and we won't see her. ”

"With Marellian here, we can see her. Will said lightly.

He saw Tyrion's eyes flicker.

Because of the ghosts of the Children of the Forest, the natives are reluctant to get close to the noble heart. - That's why the trees here are so tall and dense that if the Vale Eagle's Nest is located on the Giant's Spear, then the Noble Heart is a Giant's Sword.

The Giant's Sword is surrounded by dense and tall trees, and the children of the forest can go up and down at will—and the trees are their way. Although Will didn't know that the thoughtful Tyrion wanted to test his abilities, Will went to see Lady Leaf and had his own questions to ask.

As the new man in black, Tyrion can only do everything he does.

Although the oath had little effect on Tyrion, Cersei Lannister was at least a different story when he was still in Will's hands. - Jaime, still his closest relative.

Arya took her wolf, and Bolon, and Angay waited at the foot of the mountain.

The path of the noble heart is very difficult, the mountain is steep, until noon, overlooking from the top of the mountain, the group is still at the foot of the mountain.

The Giant's Spear has a path carved out by hand, but the noble heart has no way up the mountain.

Three days later, Will and his party finally reached the tip of the Giant's Sword.

It is a straight and steep mountain.

The summit is surrounded by dozens of huge fishbeams and wooden stumps, each wide enough for an adult like Will to sleep in bed. These ancient trees were cut down by an Andal king named Errig. Like the rest of the Andal kings, he cut down any fish and trees he could see, slaughtered any child of the forest who could be caught, the sacred mountain of the children of the forest—the noble heart was used as a bloody slaughterhouse by Errig, and all the sons of the forest who held on to the noble heart were slaughtered.

For thousands of years, there have been legends about the ghosts of the Children of the Forest.

Will and the others stood on the top of the mountain, with a panoramic view of the surrounding plains, as long as there was an army, no matter which direction they attacked, they could not escape the surveillance of the people on the top of the mountain.

"I've heard that if you go to the top of a hill inside a tree stump, you're protected here. The stumps of these fish beams are still there, and the fish beams outside the stumps have all grown into towering trees, and the will of the old gods has not left here. Will said.

But when man becomes weak, God's will becomes unreliable. Tyrion spoke sharply, "If the old gods of the noble heart had a spirit and protected the children of the forest, then in the noble heart, there would not have been a bloody incident of Errig slaughtering the children of the forest, and all these ancient trees of fish beams and trees would not have been cut down." ”

Clenn and Fred went to count them, and the huge stumps surrounding the top of the hill were, and sure enough, as Will said, thirty-one.

Tyrion said, "Lord Will, you come up the mountain, and Lady Leaf doesn't show up. ”

Will said lightly, "Tyrion, Lady Leaf is watching us from the treehouse of a tree right now. Maririan, please sit down and play a song of Janine from Rock. ”

"Yes, my lord!" Marellian's delicate garment had become dirty, and his handsome face had lost its luster. After three days of trekking, he walked a way up a steep mountain with no road, and he was so tired that his whole body ached, and there were blood blisters on the soles of his feet and on his hands—the marks left by pulling vines up the mountain.

Marellian played and sang, and before he could finish the song, an old woman with white hair appeared on the top of the mountain. She silently came to Marellian's side, sat down, closed her eyes, and was completely absorbed in the song.

After a song, the old woman was still unsatisfied.

"Young man, play it for me again, please. The old woman said.

Marellian's hair was numb, but he didn't dare to disobey, so he played it again. This time, the singing stopped for a long time before the old woman broke away from it: "Tyrion, give me wine." ”

Tyrion hurriedly handed her the wine he had prepared.

This old woman is, of course, the Lady of Leaves that Tyrion is talking about. Tyrion was already short, but the old woman was half his height, half of a man, and she sat on the small wooden stool she had brought with her, looking up at Tyrion.

Madame Leaf drank a good amount of wine, and after she had drunk a bag of wine, she pitifully begged Marellian to play for her the wedding of Jenny and Duncan, and Marellian sang all the love songs about Jenny and Duncan. This time, Madame Leaf drinks while listening to the song, and finally, she falls asleep to the sound of Marella's song.

Will looked at Lady Leaves, her long white hair dragging on the ground, at least three of her heights. Dressed in coarse cloth clothes, his eyes were blood-red, like two shining rubies. It made her look very uncomfortable. Her short stature is also beyond everyone's imagination.

She fell asleep leaning on Marielian's calf, her hands still clutching the wine bag.

Tyrion knelt down and looked at Lady Leaf's face with many wrinkles, loose skin cascading on her neck.

"She's had a hard time, Lord Will. Tyrion's voice was strange. The soft part of the little devil's heart was touched. Looking at Madame Leaf's craving for wine, you can see how difficult her life was.

Fading away from the mystery of the Children of the Forest, she is a humanoid life who does not know her age, living alone on the top of a high mountain, and becoming a ghost passed down by word of mouth of the human race.

"She can go down the mountain and live with us if she wants to. I have no shortage of golden dragons, I can invite singers for her, and I can buy fine wine for her. She misses Jenny and Duncan, and I can also invite an artist for her to draw the most beautiful Jane and Duncan in her heart according to her description. Will said softly. He crouched down, as tall as Lady Leaf.

Marellian resisted the discomfort in his heart and did not dare to move. Because Lady Leaf is sleeping on his calf. Killer Clen and Tomahawk Fred looked at Lady Leaf with respect, their eyes moistened.

The Sons of the Forest are living a difficult and endangered life, but in this continent of Westeros, where there is a glimmer of space, there is their unyielding figure—resilient and desolate. - Mrs. Leaf is the epitome of the life of this race.

Madame Leaf slept all night, and when Marellian awoke from his slumber, he heard voices in the distance—for it was quiet on the top of the mountain, and it was early morning, and even from a distance he could hear the faint voices of speech.

Marellian simply went further, he didn't want to get in trouble. It's a bunch of people he can't understand, and there's weirdness everywhere: the men in black, the gnomes, the ghosts of the noble heart love to listen to the songs of Jenny and Duncan......

"I won't leave here!" said Lady Leaf to Will, "I can't see through you, you belong to the shadows of the sun, you are outside the will of God. She turned to Tyrion, "Coca Beater, you are not wrong to follow him, I can see a shining crown." ”

Tyrion said, "Lady Leaves, don't you want to listen to Marellian's songs? ”

Lady Leaf's red pupils flickered red.

"Madam, in the north of the Great Wall of Desperation, there are also fish beams. In Winterfell, there are 10,000-year-old fish beams in the Stark family's sacred wood forest, your friends, everywhere. I am a Terran, and I am a friend of you and your people. ”

"You want Tyrion to join the Inquisition?" said Lady Leaf.

"Yes, there is only the Holy Judgment in the face of all strife and sin. The Inquisition has a prince of the sons of the forest, and it is more able to protect the people of the sons of the forest. In the northern forests, there are more children of the forest, and they need a true royal leader. The cold gods are ready to move, and we are all facing extinction again. ”

Lady Leaf's red eyes stared at Will, and Will faced it calmly, his gaze not instantaneous.

"Lord Will, I want the best wine and the best singer, that young man, who has a good voice, but sings, with fear, I want a really good singer to sing Jane for me. ”

"As you wish, ma'am. Will knelt down on one knee, took Lady Leaf's hand lightly, and kissed the cold back of her hand, "Madame, the Terrans and the children of the forest, born equal, should have been friendly and harmonious. I swear to protect the peace of the Terrans and the children of the forest, and I swear to protect me with my life, ma'am, come down the mountain with us!"