The Iron Throne of Ice and Fire

Green turned his head to look at Brienne, who was trying his best to hide her nervousness. The corners of his lips curved slightly, and his voice was slightly joking: "Thank you for your concern, Miss Tarth."

Brienne's lips trembled slightly: "This is my duty, my lord."

Green nodded with a smile, reached out and patted Brienne's strong arm, then moved his eyes to the Tengshi River again, paused, and said as if with emotion: "I don't know why, I suddenly remembered a lot of things from the past. …Unknowingly…”

Seeing that Green didn't seem to notice her "mistake", Brienne's nervousness quickly dissipated.

She looked at Green: "Want to drink?"

Green paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "Okay, let's drink together."

The blood-like setting sun gradually set in the west, and its afterglow dyed the sky a brilliant orange-red.

Brienne quickly brought the silver flagon and goblet. Being tall, she used the battlement as a table and placed them on it.

Crash---

Green took the wine glass and took a sip, while Brienne picked up the wine glass, tasted it briefly, and then put it down.

Green drank silently while looking at the sun that was about to sink into the horizon. When he was about to finish the glass of wine, he suddenly said: "Brenne, take a trip to the Stormlands for me to meet your father and his friends."

Brienne paused and said, "Lord Green, my duty is to protect your safety."

"Yes, out of trust in you, you are responsible for my protection."

Green is very patient with his loyal cronies: "I am about to leave for King's Landing. If I consider the actual benefits, the place I should go to is the West or the Stormlands."

As he spoke, Green took a sip of wine. Brienne saw that his glass was empty, and then picked up the flagon and poured wine.

Green continued: "There are Dick, Sir Mason and Duke Brynden on the other side of the West, and on the other side of the Stormland, I also need to send one of my people there."

He shrugged: "I only have you. I need you to tell Earl of Tarth that I will promote him to the governor of Stormland and let him stabilize the situation there."

Brienne stared at Greene with her clear blue eyes for a while, then said, "My lord, do I...need to do anything else?"

Green nodded slightly: "You still need to meet with Earl Tars's friends on my behalf."

Seeing Bree's eyes widen, he chuckled: "You only need to stand next to Count Tarth with the ice sword, and leave the rest to your father. He is a wise lord who knows very well what he should do. How to do it.”

Brienne lowered her face, and then raised it again after a while: "Lord Green, when will I set off, and then... when can I... come back?"

"Get ready tomorrow and set off the day after tomorrow. I will select the accompanying knights and squires for you."

After taking a sip of Tully's wine, he added: "I asked your father to prepare a list before. Get it and you can return to King's Landing at any time after meeting the friendly Stormland lords and knights."

Brienne nodded and asked, "Who will be responsible for your protection during my absence?"

"Leave it to An Gai."

"As you command, I will go find him tonight."

Late night, study.

The micromanager lord Greenknot read the letters sent from all over the Riverlands, looked at the map, and finally... breathed a sigh of relief.

Although time was short, Kleib established basic rule in the Riverlands through the wealthy knights he personally conferred.

As his dominance further expanded and deepened, Green chose to pause, because this was the limit of what Kleb could do at the moment.

After returning to King's Landing, Green will leave at least 8,000 elite garrison troops on the Crab Claw Peninsula in the Riverlands to protect the wealthy knights of the Clay family who have taken over the task of collecting refugees and restoring farmland.

army………

Vale, Riverlands, King's Landing...

Green has mobilized more than 30,000 troops in the Crab Claw Peninsula, which has a population of only a few hundred thousand. If he mobilizes more troops...

Green rubbed his brows. He needed enough troops this time to intimidate all the forces in King's Landing, including the Golden Rose.

His fingers tapped on the table, and his eyes slowly scanned the map spread on the table...

Then, he rubbed his eyebrows again.

The candlelight flickered, and Green's eyes stared at the map motionlessly. After a while, he reached out and pulled out a blank piece of parchment.

He picked up the quill and dipped it in ink. The soldier could still squeeze out some.

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Arianne Nameros Martell orchestrated the assassination of Kevan Lannister, leaving the operation to her cousins, and as the heir to Sunspear, she did not appear out of caution.

They succeeded, and they finally used the blood of Lannister to vent the fire of revenge that Martell had suppressed for more than ten years.

However, as soon as Arianne returned to Sunspear, she was placed under house arrest by her father in an overly comfortable room, and Tyene Sand, who returned with her, was directly locked in a cell by her father.

She was taken care of by servants, but no one dared to talk to her. She knew that this was her father's order. She could only wait obediently in the dull and dark room for Prince Doran's reception.

Their assassination was successful and their identity was not exposed. Why did he treat his daughter like this instead? Was he afraid again?

Arianne was more worried about Tyene's situation than herself. How would her father treat her sister?

Arianne seemed peaceful as she drank red wine, read and slept in the house, but in fact she was filled with fear inside.

Yes, although his father is in a wheelchair and has limited mobility, he is still the master of Dorne. He can decide the fate of every Dornish person, including her as the heir.

This feeling became even stronger after the birth of her younger brother, Quentin Martell (five years younger than Alien).

Later, her mother gave birth to another younger brother for her father - Tristan Martell (eleven years younger than Bialeen)... She could clearly feel that her father's attention to her had decreased again.

The younger brothers grew up healthily under their father's favor, so Arianne had hoped to marry a powerful man since she was a child and consolidate her position as heir.

He envied the freedom of marriage that Uncle Oberyn had given his bastard daughters, but she knew that she was the legal heir of Sunspear, and she must accept a loveless husband.

The person she fell in love with for the first time was an illegitimate son from the City of Divine Grace. He was considered one of the best swordsmen in Dorne. However, her father objected and told her that her husband was not needed. It's Dornish.

Later, Lord Hoster Tully invited her to Riverrun to meet his heir, Edmure Tully, but her father once again expressed opposition.

Later, King Robert's brother Renly Baratheon visited Sunspear City. His father did not express any objection this time. As a young girl, she took the initiative to express her love to Renly, but...he... Indifferent.

Later, she even proposed to her father to marry Willas Tyrell, even though he was disabled, but this time her father once again expressed opposition.

Impulsively, she tried to elope with the help of her cousins, but was captured by men sent by her father.

At that time, she learned to kneel under her father's wheelchair, admit her mistakes, and beg him for forgiveness with tears.

In the same year, Prince Doran planned to marry her to the Earl of Beehive City in the Reach. That man was an eighty-year-old little lord who could not see his eyes and had no teeth.

Fortunately, the Earl of Beehive City died a few years ago, making her current situation a little better...

But what made her despair was that her father chose another old man for him, the Marquis of Twins City--Old Walder, who had many wives.

Luck struck again, and before his father could choose a messenger, Old Walder died. Although Robb Stark trampled on the rights of guests, she had to thank the Young Wolf Lord. When she learned of his death, she lit candles for him in front of the statues of the gods to show her gratitude.

Uncle Oberyn expressed great dissatisfaction with his father's behavior of choosing old husbands for her one after another. Before he went to King's Landing as an envoy, he expressed to them... He helped her choose a new husband--the man with the past. Thousands of soldiers conquered the upstart of the valley, Green Clay.

She saw the look on her father's face when she told him that she wanted to pursue Renly, neither agreeing nor objecting.

...Her dear uncle was killed by Lannister, and the famous general already had a fiancée.

Arianne, who had drank several bottles of Summer Red, lay drowsily on the lounge chair. She suddenly grinned. Her marriage was really full of difficulties.

Arianne vaguely heard the sound of the door opening, and then a rough hand shook her shoulder, waking her up.

"Your Royal Highness, the prince has summoned you."

Arianne opened her eyes. This man was her old friend and her father's guard captain.

She pulled down the thin blanket to slightly cover her body, smiled sleepily, and said, "You have to wait, at least let me wear some clothes."

She climbed out of the lounge chair, holding the blanket with one hand, stroking her long, shiny black hair with the other hand, and said, "Do I have time to take a bath? This is out of my respect for the prince."

The gray-haired guard captain shrugged and said, "I'll wait for you outside, Your Highness."

After the guard captain left, two maids came in to prepare bath water and wash Arianne.

No matter how her father considered her assassination of Kevan Lannister, she didn't want it to be a reason for him to choose a dying old man for him again.

She couldn't understand her father's thoughts. Out of caution, after getting familiar with it, she chose a simple ivory cloth robe with vines and purple grapes embroidered on the sleeves and upper body.

To show the modesty of an heiress, she wore no jewelry.

By the time Arianne walked out of the room, dusk had fallen.

Prince's study.

Arianne saw Prince Doran Martell sitting behind the chess table. He was playing with an elephant carved from agate, turning it over in his hands.

His face was pale and swollen, his hands were red and swollen, and his health was much worse than before she left.

She suppressed her distressed emotions and saluted respectfully: "Father."

Her father looked up at her, his black eyes blurred with pain: "Where are Obaya and Nymeria (the Sand Snakes who followed Arianne to King's Landing, Chapter 386)?"