If there's nothing else...
There is another matter, your Grace. Something so urgent I couldn't trust the words to a raven. You once charged me with finding Arya Stark. To my shame, I failed you. But I have found Sansa Stark. Alive and well. At home again. Living at Winterfell.
That's not possible!
My sources are well placed. They tell me Roose Bolton plans to marry her to his son Ramsay, a bastard recently legitimized by King Tommen.
Roose Bolton is Warden of the North by the grace of my father.
Indeed. His reward for stabbing his own king in the heart.
We were fools to trust a turncloak.
Marrying his son to the last of the Starks gives him more legitimacy in the North than an alliance with a hated southern house.
I will skin him and his bastard like that wretch on their bloody sigil!
I would counsel patience, your Grace.
Patience!? Sansa helped murder my son, Roose Bolton is a traitor!
Stannis Baratheon is also a traitor, marching with his army on Winterfell. Let Stannis and Roose battle. Let the enemies of the Throne slaughter each other, and when they're done, seize Winterfell from whichever thief survives.
Winterfell is a thousand miles away from here. The weather has already begun to turn.
That is why it is critical to strike soon while the victor still licks his wounds. Surely, your uncle Kevan could muster a force.
My uncle Kevan has all the courage of a kitchen mouse.
Ser Jaime then.
Jaime is away on a sensitive diplomatic mission. I have no idea when he'll be back.
Perhaps I can help. The knights of the Vale are some of the best fighters in Westeros. Trained to battle in the ice and the snow.
Forgive me, Lord Baelish, your reputation is a moneylender and profit-keeper, not a military man.
You wouldn't risk a single Lannister soldier or a single coin from the royal treasury. What do you have to lose? A brothelkeeper?
And if you succeed?
Name me Warden of the North?
I'll speak to the King this evening. Have an issue of royal decree.
I'll not rest until the lion flies over Winterfell.
And I'll know you're a man of your word when I see Sansa Stark's head on a spike.
As I said, I live to serve.
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