They had ridden for several days, only stopping for a day or two before riding again. When they were at the Neck of the North, they stopped. They were camped near the place where Robert Baratheon and Rhaegar Targaryen fought and where the Dragon Prince was killed. It's a pretty remarkable place in history.
Raya loved the History of Westeros, especially the war that is called 'Robert's Rebellion' the war that wiped out the Targaryens. Raya always wondered what happened to the Mad Kings last two children; a boy of seven named Viserys who should be Twenty-Four years of age now and a baby girl that was named Daenerys who should be Raya's age now. She wondered if they are alive...
Raya was snapped out of her thoughts by Sansa who was standing in front of her, "Raya!" she asked again for the third time and this time, she got her older sister's attention. Sansa sighed in relief.
"What is it, Sansa?" Raya asked looking at the girl.
"The Queen invited us to ride in their carriage," Sansa answered looking excited, "I was sent to tell you and Arya."
"Where is Arya?" Raya asked as she looked around for their wild little sister.
"I don't know, I was hoping she was with you," Sansa shrugged.
"Knowing her, she is out riding or something wild like that," Raya said as she faced Sansa, "when are we supposed to go on this carriage ride?" she asked.
"In 30 minutes time," Sansa answered.
"Okay, we should get going then, right?" Raya wiped her outfit clean and went to go but Sansa stopped her, "what?"
"Wearing that?" Sansa asked and Raya gave her sister a look, "I'm just saying. It's not very ladylike." she told her.
"Fine, I'll go change into a dress, will that make you happy?" Raya asked and Sansa nodded happily, "okay, let's go."
Raya walked over to her tent while Sansa followed her, as they went into her tent, she saw Raven laying there asleep, Raya just shrugged as she looked at Sansa.
"Where is Lady?" Raya asked her.
"Oh, I'll go get her," Sansa said as she turned and left before Raya could argue, Raya knew that Sansa was like that, always trying to be her older sister's favorite. She is jealous that Arya gets along better with Raya than her...
Raya dressed in one of her only loose dresses, one that doesn't need a corset. She'll be in corsets soon enough. Just not now. She had made the dress herself, she added the patch on the side of the belt and the ends of the sleeves made of fabrics. She loved how the dress turned out.
Raya stepped outside, Raven had woken up and now was following her, as she stepped outside, she saw Sansa walking this way with Lady who was on a leash. Raya had to restrain herself from yelling at her sister for doing that. Their Direwolves are very loyal...
"Wow," Sansa said as she looked at her older sister, "you look... Beautiful." Sansa couldn't help but feel jealous. Raya was so beautiful, way more beautiful than her. Even though she is the one marrying Joffrey, she couldn't help but feel like anyone would choose Raya over her.
"Do I look good?" Raya asked as she twirled around.
Raya's hair was in an up-down, half of it was in a northern braid and the other half was down on her shoulders. Sansa has always tried to copy her sister's looks or at least her hair, she had her hair in the same do.
"You do," Sansa nodded with a smile, "we should get going."
Raya nodded as she wrapped her arm with Sansa's and they walked together where their direwolves were next to each other as well...
They had gone to the Queen but one of the Queen's handmaidens told the Stark girls that the Queen had to cancel. Sansa was so disappointed but Raya had seen this coming. Queen Cersei didn't exactly like Starks.
"I'm going to go find our wild sister, do you want to come?" Raya asked.
"Not really..." Sansa answered still feeling down from the Queen's canceling.
"Don't be so down, Sansa," Raya made Sansa look at her, "there is always a second chance, we are moving into Kingslanding." she told her.
"You're right," Sansa smiled, "thank you, Raya."
"Just doing my job," Raya informed her before walking away, Raven following her as she walked, she sent her direwolf a smile as they walked.
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After looking for Arya everywhere, she finally found her, she was training at swordsmanship with sticks with the butcher's boy from the village that they are camped nearby, Raya met him once yesterday, his name is Mycah. The two were pretty in sync and Raya smiled at that. Arya is actually pretty good at it.
Raya sat down in a nearby patch of grass that had a clear view of Arya and Mycah, she looked over to Raven who laid down next to her and laid her head on Raya's lap. She started to pet Raven's head as they sat there.
That was when she heard a familiar girl's yell...
"ARYA!"
Raya stood up and realized who it was, "oh no..." She went down the hill, but, not soon enough... She saw Sansa standing there with Prince Joffrey.
"Leave him alone," Arya hissed as Joffrey put his sword up to Mycah.
"Arya, stay out of this," Sansa warned.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt him... Much." Joffrey began to cut Mycah's cheek just as Raya came up to them but she wasn't fast enough because Arya raised her stick and hit Joffrey over the back!
That was the start of it, both Joffrey and Arya started to fight or at least Joffrey was swinging his sword at Arya while Arya dodged it and then she fell and Joffrey pointed his sword at Arya as if he was going to hurt her!
"I'll gut you, you little cunt!" Joffrey yelled at her.
"That's enough!" Raya's voice boomed and all three of them looked at her but not soon enough because right then Nymeria ran out and bit into the Prince's arm!
"NO!" Sansa yelled.
"ARYA, STOP HER!" Raya ordered.
"NYMERIA!" Arya yelled as she stood up and tried to stop Nymeria who was very focused on tearing into the Prince's arm.
Raya groaned as she gave a glance at Raven who got the message and snapped at her Littermate who stopped immediately when she did that.
Raya went to step towards them when Arya picked up the Prince's sword and pointed it at the Prince.
"Please no..." Joffrey pleaded like a little girl.
"Arya, leave him alone!" Sansa ordered.
But Raya knew that Arya wouldn't listen to Sansa, "Arya, that is enough!" Raya told her and Arya just groaned as she went over to the lake and threw the sword into it. Arya turned around to face Raya.
"I'm sorry," Arya apologized.
Raya stepped to pull Arya into a hug but Arya shook her head and ran into the woods with Nymeria quick on her heels...
Sansa didn't care about Arya, she ran to the Prince's side. Raya gulped as she realized she had a choice, help the Prince who was clearly in the wrong or help Arya who was just protecting her friend.
"Raya, what do I do?" Sansa asked her older sister with panicked eyes.
"Go get help," Raya ordered.
Sansa nodded before looking at her betrothed, "I'm going to go for help," Sansa told him as she tried to touch his face but he looked away from him.
"Then go," Joffrey hissed, "and don't touch me."
Sansa looked down as she stood up with tears in her eyes, she ran off to go get help. Raya glanced at Raven, "go with Sansa, protect her," she ordered and Raven slightly nodded her head as an answer before running after Sansa.
Raya stepped towards the Prince. "You won't get away with this," Raya told him and he looked at her with shock, "I promise to the Old Gods and the New."
And with that, Raya ran into the woods to go get Arya...
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Raya finally found Arya, but, when she did... Nymeria was nowhere to be found.
"Arya," Raya spoke up making Arya look up at her with teary eyes, "where is Nymeria?" she asked.
"She's gone," Arya's voice cracked when she spoke.
Raya frowned as she knew what she meant, they would have killed Nymeria and Arya knew it, so she let Nymeria go... "Come here," she said as she pulled Arya into a hug and Arya cried into Raya's arms.
"It's getting dark, we need to get back," Raya told her.
"Okay, okay, okay," Arya repeated the word okay for a minute showing her nervousness and Raya hugged her once again before they started walking...
They walked until they found the trail, they started walking on it when they both heard riders...
"There they are!" A man yelled and Raya looked over and saw it was Lannister man, she tensed, she was hoping it'd be a Stark man who'd find them...
One of the riders came up to them, "the Queen wants to see you both," the man said gruffly as he looked at the two Stark girls.
Raya had Arya a little bit behind her protectively, she did not trust Lannisters, "we'll walk," Raya told him.
That was when Arya screamed, Raya turned on her heel as she saw a Lannister man picked Arya up and put her on a Horse before getting on as well.
"Put my sister down, you Lannister asshole-" Raya went to protest when someone stopped her.
"You will ride," Raya turned towards the voice and saw it was Jaime Lannister, he had his own horse, he put out his hand for her to take. "Don't make this harder than it needs to be, Raya."
Raya just clenched her teeth, restraining herself from cursing at him as she took his hand and help her onto the horse, she almost fell so she had no choice but to wrap her arms around Jaime's waist.
"Let's go," Jaime ordered the other rider and they began to ride towards the camp...
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
The ride to the camp wasn't that long and once they got there, Jaime got off the Horse first before helping Raya down even though she was going to protest that she could do it herself, he did it anyway.
As for the other rider, he just pushed Arya off, she almost hit the ground but Raya caught her before she could. That was when she saw Raven run up to her, Raya took a sigh of relief, Sansa got there safely.
"We need to get inside," Jaime told her, "my sister's waiting."
"Very well," Raya looked back at Raven "stay here, Raven. I don't think you want to be in there," she ordered her direwolf.
And with that, they went inside to see the King, sitting there and the Queen next to him who looked furious and the Prince who had a bandaged arm around them was the party that the King had with them but what Raya didn't see was her Father...