[Chapter Size: 3162 Words.]-------------------------------------------Jon Snow POV.North Kingdom, Unknown Lands, Glovers' Lands, 289 A.C., at this very moment.--------------------------------------------While Lord Stark was lost in his thoughts about the events of the past weeks, Jon was leading his group through the nds of the Glovers after leaving FrostRoar. They veered off the road as they ehe open fields to try to deceive any potential pursuers. Fortunately for them, it was already night, making it difficult for anyone orail to pursue them, opting to do so only the m, as Jon could easily trol his animals ahem.

  "We're getting close to WolfWoods," Jon said to William and Du after seeing through a owl he released. Caraxes wasn't very good with night vision, so Jon opted for another bird that easily bonded.

  "The horses are already tired. As much as they obey you, they still have a limit," Du said in the darkness.

  "I know, let's camp in this pce," Jon finally gave the order.

  The field en, but no threat would approach without beied with their owls monit after releasing four more cages in all dires.

  "You have a very useful skill," William ented with a hint of envy.

  "Anyway, let's prepare a fire, the wood in the wagons," Jon said, and Du went to get the firewood.

  "Leave it stacked, and I'll make the fire." The boy said as he grabbed the tents.

  After setting them up, Joo the pile of firewood, and in his hand, a fme appeared.

  "By the gods!" William said, watg this with a stunned Du by his side.

  "It's useful, but aside from lighting a fire, it's almost useless. It would hardly kill anyone in a battle with a small fme..." Jon mocked with that thought.

  He khat besides his magic reted to the old gods, like creating trees, warging, aics with a slight degree of healing, his ical fields couldn't grow, so he is limited to lighting a fire with fire magic, just as with wind magic, which is limited to keeping his arrows ued by the wind. It's useful in some cases, but nothiraordinary.

  Shrugging, Jon lit the fire, and they gathered around it to warm themselves.

  "It seems there's a group following us..." Jon ented suddenly as they ate.

  "How many and osition?" Du asked quickly while scratg the hilt of his sword.

  "One of the owls flew southeast, finding a group of 30 men. They're wearing mismatched clothes, but they are clearly Frotniid House men in disguise.

  "30 men? Isn't that dangerous?" William asked a little frightened.

  "It is, but they 't reach us tonight. We'll be safe when roach Wolfwoods." Jon was calm as he spoke. It's not the first time he's felt danger, so he's starting to get used to this kind of situation, especially since he knows that the group chasing them 't catch up with them during the night, not when they left the road many ho.

  His thinking was right, as some time ter the group passed the point where he left the road without realizing it. When they realize they lost the trail, they'll have to wait until dawn to pursue them again.

  "The's sleep, a bit." Du said, and everyoo rest ients.

  When the sun began to rise, everyone was headi. When they reached the edge of Wolfwoods, Johere roblem with the wagons. They would never make it through the dense forest.

  "Let's go north. I have a pn to shake off our pursuers," Jon said, and everyone followed. No one had difficulty accepting orders from this child, not after everything he could do.

  As the day passed, Jon headed north, and a group being monitored by Caraxes was ering the field as they picked up the wagon tracks. Due to their mistake the previous night, they were signifitly deyed in resuming the pursuit of the tracks. So, when they reached the edge of Wolfwoods, it was already past noon.

  -------------------------------------------**Captain Gyt -**North Kingdom, Unknown Lands, Glovers' Lands, 289 A.C., at this very moment.-------------------------------------------Gyt formed a search group with 29 more disguised men. They are hunting under Lord Frotniid's order, seeking revenge for the boy who harmed his son. When he learned of Du's betrayal in joining the boy, I demahat we close the gates and kill them right there. However, Lord Frotniid said it wouldn't be well-received to do that here when everyohe flict, and they're dealing with a son of House Stark, bastard or not. So, we're here chasing them, my desire to kill Du was as great as my men beside me; Du was always a tough ander and often meddled in our affairs. Our lords kept him as a leader because he could trol the soldiers and was skilled with a swaining fame after the war, but we were always dissatisfied with him. Now, with his betrayal, we finally get revenge, with me taking his position.

  When we reached the edge of Wolfwoods, I noticed the trail had shifted to the north. "So, they want to walk along the edge of the forest?" I said mogly. It was only three men against a hat exceeded us tenfold, whether that boy had sorcery or not, they stood no ce. We tio pursue them to the north; unfortunately, we lost the trail, so we are a bit behind, but there are no nearby towns or vilges. We'll catch them the day.

  As night began to fall, I ordered my men to set up camp; I won't make the same mistake when they are so close. ht was quiet, with men drinking and discussing how they would spend their money after bringing the heads of that group, whether in a brothel or buying a neon. When we finally went to rest, we could never imagine what would happen in the few hours...

  -------------------------------------------**Shadow -**North Kingdom, Unknown Lands, Glovers' Lands, 289 A.C., 3 hours ter.--------------------------------------------[Author here: I'll try to report the thoughts of a familiar, so I won't use the third person in this part]

  We were in darkness, but our eyes were those of hunters, and we were not limited by the night. Our masters, the ones with magical blood, anded us to fight against their ehere were four of us when we saw the human camp, but at this moment, I felt our master sharing his sciousness with me, something that had never happened before, as if we were just one being at this moment.

  I felt happy, happy to assist our masters alongside my panion and our siblings. I made a small noise, knowing that all our minds were united with the master at this moment, so we advaowards his enemies' camp. First, we ran to two awake men; I had the advantage of appearing as the night, so I attacked by sinking my teeth into their necks—the humans had no ce, just like the other humao them. My panion jumped on him without giving him a ce to scream.

  Our masters instructed us to elimihe sentinels without alerting the other humans; it was easy and quick. I could see the desperation on their faces, but it was their choice to bee our enemies. After that, the camp had no humao warn them; my other siblings came alongside the corpses.

  Our masters, Jon, instructed us to grab some branches ahem burn by throwing them into the tents, something we would never do normally, but with the master sharing our minds, we did. Each of us mao throw that branto the tents once or twice; there were six tents burning at this moment, while the humans screamed in a nguage we didn't quite know. Whearted ing out of the tents, we began to run around the burning camp to attack them. Their screams increased when they noticed us pierg their throats while they screamed even more with pain and fear.

  We didn't know how much time had passed sihe start of the fire, didn't know how many humans I had killed, but I knew I had to eliminate all threats to our master. They seemed to realize they couldn't defeat us; the camp was full of dead humans. Instead of a direct attack, we circled, killing humans alone as they tried to attack us, but without success.

  We mao block their path to the horses with the fmes; their le ons were all in that pce. They began to group, but there were far fewer humans now, less than half of the initial hey were trembling in fear; we could smell it, we were powerful, and all other species feared us; it was not an unfamiliar sight. The fire didn't help; my panion and my siblings had to be cautious with it, and the humans were suffering even more in the middle of the camp.

  They shouted, cursed us in that nguage; our master instructed us to appear on all sides of the group except the west. When they saw us, we bared our teeth with a growl, threatening to jump ohe humans were horrified by ht as we walked towards the group; there were about 12 of them still, all huddled together, but I was sure they were imagining their deaths here. When the first saw a clear path to the forest, he began to run out of the group; the human formation broke when the first left them, the sed followed soon after. When the group dispersed, all were running into the woods; we caught the st 4 before entering the forest.

  We could hear the desperation of the st 8 in the middle of the woods, but that was our territory. While our master instructed us to free the horses trapped to prevent them from burning in the spreading fire, my brother and I went to hunt the other 8 humans. It didn't take long to exterminate all of them; we won't leave any enemies of our master alive.

  -------------------------------------------**Jon Snow -**North Kingdom, Unknown Lands, Glovers' Lands, 289 A.C., at this very moment.--------------------------------------------"HMMM!" Jon choked in the middle of the night.*COF**COF*Jon rushed out of his tent and began to vomit in front of him."Jon? Are you okay?" Du, who was on watch, ran to where Jon was vomiting."I'm fine... it's just the horrible taste of blood..." He grumbled."Taste of what?!" Du was stunned by this."Fet it, I'm okay; you'll know more ter..." Jon said, affirming that he was fine now.

  Du returo keep wat the pce, and Jouro the tent with a grim expression.

  "That was not cool," Jon said to himself.

  He ehe minds of his animals to instruct them to hunt down the men who had uimated them. He avoided aion as his wolves killed, but when it was over, the taste of blood appeared in his mouth.

  With his group eliminated, it was safer to tinue his journey. He mao free the horses; now he was warging with 20 of them. He wasn't skilled enough to try to trol all 30, but 20 would be a great addition. The day, Du and William were stunned by 20 horses arriving shortly after sunrise in their camp. With all these horses, Jon could ehe Wolfwood with most of his belongings.

  First, he took the wagons to disassemble and make them smaller for the sand, while the horses would carry bags that Jon acquired from the city stores. Unfortunately, there was the anvil, which was extremely heavy, so they would leave it hidden at the edge of the woods until they picked it up again. Of the three remaining wagons, Johem with some horses to go north. If someone chased them again, they would be divided iering the Wolfwoods oing further north. Jon doubted they would want to ehe forest after seeing the state of the other camp, killed by gias.

  With all of this, they set off into the phenomenal forest, with half a dozen horses. It didn't take long for their wolves to appear while Du and William trembled at those gias, w how a man could withstand those jaws. But Jon praised them, rubbing his hands on the fiant wolves. The same went for the two dozen horses, but the boy did it mentally.

  They tihrough the forest, as they were much further north than from the gate, it took a few more days walkiween trees and camping by fires. Local animals avoided their group with the presence of the wolves, whily came out at night from their side to hunt something. With the vision in the sky with Caraxes and his owls and his wolves on the ground, he would never get lost here and easily found the route to the giants' camp.

  In these days, the sick bird started to recover. Jon healed all the beautiful bird's wounds with his magic, g it every day. He wao serve energy, so he couldn't use magic as he did with Lucas in Icehill. But now, the bck bird with red and some golden spots was getting familiar with Caraxes. Jon bonded with her on the same level as he did with his white eagle and asked him to take care of her, which made him happy with his new female panion.

  It took 5 days to reach the camp. As Jon didn't tell them about the giants, his new friends were stunned when they saw them for the first time.

  "BY THE GODS!" Poor William was the most hysterical.

  "Don't be too armed; they are my panions that I found in this pce. Let's share this space with their cooperation," Jon reassured them.

  "These are Wallyk, Wuual, Carruuyi, Tuuuxy, and Seryna!" Jon introduced in the on nguage.

  "These are William and Du!" Jon introduced the humans in the a nguage.

  The horses were relocated to a part of the camp as they began to unload their goods with the help of their giant friends, while Seryna ran after Jon after not seeing him in these days. With everything ready, Jon would stay stuck here while practig feng with Du every day, fixing the fe with William using the materials he bought iy. When the fe was ready, they would start their projects with the iron the giants could get from the mine. Jon would study alchemy as soon as he begaing gss with melted sand.

  Unfortunately, there was the anvil, which was extremely heavy, so they would leave it hidden at the edge of the woods until they picked it up again. Of the three remaining wagons, Johem with some horses to go north. If someone chased them again, they would be divided iering the Wolfwoods oing further north. Jon doubted they would want to ehe forest after seeing the state of the other camp, killed by gias.

  With all of this, they set off into the phenomenal forest, with half a dozen horses. It didn't take long for their wolves to appear while Du and William trembled at those gias, w how a man could withstand those jaws. But Jon praised them, rubbing his hands on the fiant wolves. The same went for the two dozen horses, but the boy did it mentally.

  They tihrough the forest, as they were much further north than from the gate, it took a few more days walkiween trees and camping by fires. Local animals avoided their group with the presence of the wolves, whily came out at night from their side to hunt something. With the vision in the sky with Caraxes and his owls and his wolves on the ground, he would never get lost here and easily found the route to the giants' camp.

  In these days, the sick bird started to recover. Jon healed all the beautiful bird's wounds with his magic, g it every day. He wao serve energy, so he couldn't use magic as he did with Lucas in Icehill. But now, the bck bird with red and some golden spots was getting familiar with Caraxes. Jon bonded with her on the same level as he did with his white eagle and asked him to take care of her, which made him happy with his new female panion.

  It took 5 days to reach the camp. As Jon didn't tell them about the giants, his new friends were stunned when they saw them for the first time.

  "BY THE GODS!" Poor William was the most hysterical.

  "Don't be too armed; they are my panions that I found in this pce. Let's share this space with their cooperation," Jon reassured them.

  "These are Wallyk, Wuual, with their children, Carruuyi, Tuuuxy. The others are Carruuyi, Tuuuxy, and Seryna!" Jon introduced in the on nguage.

  "These are William and Du!" Joed the humans in the a nguage.

  The horses were relocated to a part of the camp as they began to unload their goods with the help of their giant friends, while Seryna ran after Jon after not seeing him in these days. With everything ready, Jon would be stuck here while training swordsmanship with Du every day, fixing the fe with William using the materials he bought iy. When the fe was ready, they would start their projects with the iron the giants could get from the mine. Jon would study alchemy as soon as he begaing gss with melted sand.

  He would wait for the she-wolf, Bckarrow, to give birth to a new litter and be ready to tinue his journey because he was sure he would train all his new birds, horses, and wolves for the challehat would e. He easily ected with the 50 birds, but he didn't have full trol, but he would stre over time. His swordsmanship and his body would be strengthened in the ing moons with Du, and he was fident he could find a short-term solution to his young age with alchemy.

  And with William's help, he was sure he could arm them all. He would even try something that was on his mind, the magical runiowledge he acquired from the gods. It couldn't be as profound as the Roycers of the valley, but he could activate rune magic different from the a house. He would due experiments with the armor in the ing moons and could revolutiohe current craft knowledge. Now Jon is ready to seclude himself with all his pnned objectives.