Eagle of the Valley of Ice and Fire

The cold dagger was pressed against his erect neck. The approach of death always made people afraid. Littlefinger had tasted this feeling before. When he was young and ignorant, he challenged the northern wolf Brandon Stark. He still recalled the fear that made him unable to escape no matter how hard he struggled.

The wolf was dead, but this feeling was rediscovered on a young eagle.

Littlefinger put down the dagger. He had been planning since his dear Lysa gave birth to the Prime Minister's youngest son, Little Robin. His ambition to pursue power reached its peak when the Prime Minister's eldest son Artis first arrived in King's Landing.

"That young eagle must die!" Littlefinger thought to himself under the Prime Minister's tower at that time.

He prepared for this for several years.

Littlefinger was used to taking risks when he attacked. Whether it was his contact with Lysa or his investigation of the situation of the lords of the Vale, these would leave traces, but Littlefinger would always give these traces appropriate reasons or erase them secretly.

The eldest son of the Arryn family was protected by the Royce family in the traditional and rigid Runestone City and basically never came out. Just seeing the contemptuous look of Bronze Jon would awaken Littlefinger's deep inferiority complex. What's more terrible is that this young eagle just returned from King's Landing and traveled around the Vale for several times, and Littlefinger didn't know where he flew to.

The territory of the Vale is often divided into small pieces. For example, the peninsula where Runestone City and Seagull Town are located is one of the few flat lands in the Vale. The rest of the territory is surrounded by the Moon Mountains. It is very difficult to communicate with each other. Even the ravens flying to the Eyrie are specially trained by the maesters. This information is not known to ordinary people.

He tried to find loopholes in the ancient and closed valley. It was difficult to find out the basic situation in this closed terrain and relatively closed culture, the demands of each lord, the ambitions of each noble, the friction between them, and the role of the mountain clan in the valley.

Littlefinger could only start from one place, that is, the third largest city in Westeros, Seagull Town, where the customs were managed by the Minister of Finance. This was one of the few places where the lords of the valley often gathered and crossed, and trade was prosperous. Because the valley attached great importance to coastal defense, almost all military nobles and even knights would bring their children or family members to observe the coastal defense, ports and fleets here.

It was there that Littlefinger met Harlan, the youngest son of the Hunter family, and learned of his ambitions.

"Love breeds hate. The foolish old Earl Hunter left his love to the youngest son Harlan and left the truly valuable power to his two elder brothers. How could there not be trouble?" Littlefinger thought to himself.

Longbow Hall is very close to the Five Fingers Peninsula. As a native noble of the Five Fingers Peninsula, he was called "Little Finger" by the ignorant and ridiculous Edmure Tully because he came from the smallest thumb of the Five Fingers Peninsula.

The hopelessness of the class made him strive forward, and the meticulous plan took shape in his hands.

The relationship in the free trade city-state allowed him to establish contact with a group of strange assassins, a group of killers who would say "I'm sorry" before killing, the regretful guests of Qarth.

As a long-term customs trader, it is impossible for him not to pay generous tolls to the greedy pirates on the narrow sea. Even under the long-term supervision of Stannis's Dragonstone Fleet, Littlefinger actually left room for some pirate leaders to survive, which also facilitated Littlefinger.

The ambition of Harlan Hunter in Longbow Hall, the relationship between pirate leaders, and the regretful guests of Qarth. Little Finger only blamed Harlan for doing so much. He could have lured his second brother Eustace and Attis into the city and then taken action when they came to the table. Harlan's confidants in the city and the pirates outside the city were ready to move. It would have been no problem to kill the hundreds of cavalrymen brought by Attis.

Harlan could have detained all the horses in advance and then taken action, or even arranged for Attis to have a separate room and then sent out the last link of the Regret Guest. He had to be smart and wanted to take action at the moment when people entered the city. They were fully armed cavalrymen. The pirates outside the city and the personal soldiers in the city could not take down all the hundreds of valley cavalrymen even if they tried their best.

Even if Eustace and Attis were killed at that time, it would be useless. Harlan could not continue to deceive. What he faced next was the pursuit of tens of thousands of valley knights.

Fortunately, he asked the Regret Guest to poison Harlan at the right time in advance, otherwise he might have been exposed.

If this thing succeeded, at least it would not affect him, but he did not expect that the eyes of this young eagle were so sharp that he could see through loyalty, treachery, good and evil at a glance.

When he looked into his eyes at the tournament and the banquet, the fear that Brandon Stark had brought to him reappeared.

This time, it was not from bravery, but from wisdom, which inevitably made Littlefinger feel a sense of crisis.

"This young eagle must die!" Littlefinger thought again in his heart. This time it was not entirely because of the plan, but there was a sense of self-protection.

Littlefinger put down the dagger in his hand, and his mouth curled slightly. People's attention always has a difference between before and after. As long as.

A new plan is quietly unfolding.

Sea Minister Stannis got rid of the endless echoes at the banquet. He sat on the bed with his eyes closed, and Littlefinger's words rang in his ears.

"Look at our Prince Joffrey, with golden hair, he looks more and more like our beautiful Queen Cersei." Littlefinger said drunkenly while drinking red wine.

Stannis ignored him at the time and drank by himself. His eyes were always wandering outside the banquet. He was thinking about whether the Dragonstone Fleet had any results in capturing the smuggling ship. How could he listen to Littlefinger's nonsense.

"Our Prince Tommen and the lovely Princess Myrcella, ha, both have golden hair like lions, and they look more and more like their dear uncle," Littlefinger lowered his head, his eyes blurred with drunkenness. "Twins, hiccups!" Littlefinger leaned on the table as if he was asleep.

Stannis wanted to leave the drunkard immediately, but a clue formed in his mind like a snowball. In an instant, his pupils widened and he looked at Joffrey and Cersei in the distance in shock, as well as the Kingslayer standing by and smiling at Joffrey.

A terrible idea formed in his mind, and he wanted to tell his elder brother about this doubt immediately, but he immediately extinguished this idea. Robert never listened to his advice, any advice!

"I need evidence," Stannis murmured.

Jon Arryn, the Prime Minister, he can convince Robert.

Stannis made up his mind and then lay down on the bed, trying to fall asleep, but he couldn't fall asleep. He knew what the consequences would be if he investigated the matter thoroughly. Lannister and Baratheon might even go to war, destroying the hard-won peace of the kingdom, but Stannis was not interested in this. Peace cannot be built on lies and incest.

And if the truth is really like that, the four alliances of the Deer Family in the Stormlands and the King's Territory, the Wolf Family in the North, the Eagle Family in the Vale, and the Fish Family in the Riverlands are still there. No matter how strong the Lannisters are, they can't resist this powerful force.

By then, it will be the rainy season of Casterly Rock, not Castamere!

Stannis even thought about who Robert should marry after Cersei was deposed. Thinking of himself and the possible changes in the future, his heart couldn't help but ripple.

Eddard Stark of the North led his troops in a proper manner. Brinton Tully of the Fish family was still there. Robert would definitely lead the army in person. Bronze Jon of the Vale and even the Eagle, the champion of the tournament, could be brought out to gain experience and feel the confrontation and command of a large army, rather than a simple battle of Longbow Hall.

Although Stannis was impressed by Artis's martial arts, the miraculous suppression of the Longbow Hall was just a small fight in his eyes. I guess Artis was also suspected of seeking fame.

At this time, Artis was soaking his body in the hot water of the wooden barrel, enjoying the rare pleasure.

In his heart, he was sorting out the information he got from Robert and his father. The information was not complicated and pointed to one person, that is, Lord Petyr Baelish, the little finger of the Vale.

If he had the ability to bring the Regret Guest from Qarth to the Vale, at least he would have people in the customs and coastal defense. Thinking of this, Attis frowned slightly. What if it was King's Landing, which he was more familiar with and had run for a long time?

Littlefinger became the Minister of Finance on the recommendation of Lysa. His relationship with Lady Lysa when he was young is still used by the Vale lords to ridicule his father behind his back. His father also admitted that Lysa often influenced his decision-making. Attis couldn't help but worry about his father's safety in King's Landing.

Evidence must be obtained as soon as possible to destroy Littlefinger's power in one fell swoop.

Littlefinger manages the finances of the Seven Kingdoms, the people who have contact with Qarth, and the customs officers of Seagull Town

But didn't Varys report to the customs that there was no suspicion of contact with Qarth? Attis closed his eyes and thought, lies are sometimes made up of truths, and incomplete truths are more harmful than pure lies. Maybe Varys reported a little less, maybe Varys and Littlefinger are in the same group?

Attis didn't dare to think about it. If so, he might not survive the venom of the octopus spider.

The blue-cloaked guards of the Arryn family remained vigilant even at night. The patrol, alert, and shift change procedures were strictly implemented. This was his father's trump card in King's Landing.

Gold Cloak Guards, Attis has not yet met the military commander of King's Landing. If his father also has the support of this team, the threat will be reduced a lot

But this is still not as close as the intimate poison of close people.

Thinking of Lysa's past madness, Attis's heart, which belongs to the ancient traditional stability psychology of the Vale, once again aroused a sense of crisis. Littlefinger must have left traces. He must find the answer quickly. In King's Landing, such an investigation will definitely not be hidden from Littlefinger and Varys, who have many followers. The best way is to return the bell to the place where it was tied, Littlefinger's power in the Vale, Seagull Town.

The idea also took shape in Attis' mind. His father, who is familiar with the situation in King's Landing, must understand the game of power in King's Landing better than himself. He cannot act rashly, and in the Vale, it is the sky of eagles.

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