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[ENCAMPMENT OUTSIDE YUNKAI, NIGHT, DAENERYS'S TENT]

[MISSANDEI bathes DAENERYS in a tub by candlelight. The two talk about how MISSANDEI can talk in nineteen languages and about Daenerys' Dothraki and High Valyrian. MISSANDEI gasps and DAENERYS turns to see MISSANDEI held captive, her mouth covered and a knife at her throat. Her assailant, DAARIO, wears the uniform of the Unsullied.]

"Where are the guards?!" Rhaegar said with absolute outrage. Two Queensguard and that man still managed to sneak in!"

Daenerys stared in horror. She'd been so confident with her dragons and men around her. But now she was vulnerable, without them she was vulnerable. Was this where she died?

"Perhaps it would be better to pick up the sword as well, my dear " Elia whispered. "You need to be able to protect yourself. Thankfully you have the rewards to help you."

"I think that would be a good idea" Oberyn muttered, not a drop of playfulness in his tone.

Daenerys nods. She should be able to protect herself. Though she wasn't that worried as the rewards she got from here along with Jon's help in training she won't be scared like the Danerys on the screen.

[DAARIO leads MISSANDEI further into the tent. DAENERYS watches nervously, feeling vulnerable in her bath. DAARIO removes the knife from her throat and lifts off the Unsullied helmet. His eyes smile at DAENERYS. She is confused and angry.]

"What do you want?"

"You."

"Let her go."

"Don't scream, lovely girl."

[DAARIO releases MISSANDEI with a grand gesture. She scampers next to DAENERYS.]

"You were sent here to kill me?"

[DAARIO nods and chuckles.]

"So why haven't you?"

"I don't want to."

"That's... well that's nice of him I suppose" Robn muttered. He was relieved that Daenerys was safe. She seemed a good woman, and she was doing good. It would be a shame if she were to die before she could make meaningful changes.

"What do your captains have to say about that?"

[DAARIO removes his satchel and dumps its contents on the floor. The heads of MERO and PRENDAHL thud as they hit the floor.]

"You should ask them."

"He killed them?" Robb frowned. "So he's a turn cloak and backstabber.'

"He is" Oberyn nods, "but you get men like that when the leadership does not please. And I am assuming that he now holds the position of command" he adds.

"He is still a backstabber, foolish to trust," Robb said.

"It would be" Oberyn hummed. The Sellswords are meant to be armies of gold. They get paid to risk their lives. If they start to break their promises... what was there left for them?

"We had philosophical differences."

"Over what?"

"Your beauty. It meant more to me than it did to them."

"You're a strange man."

"I'm the simplest man you'll ever meet. I only do what I want to do."

"Simplest yet the most dangerous. If he ever wants something different, he'll abandon his commitments" Elia added with a frown.

"And this is supposed to impress me? Why would I trust a man who murders his comrades?"

"Good. Don't just go with his words" Rhaegar muttered.

"They ordered me to murder you. I told them I preferred not to. They told me I had no choice. I told them I am Daario Naharis. I always have a choice. They drew their swords and I drew mine."

"Hm... so he killed them because they attacked first."

"And they attacked because he refused an order. Gross mistake in an army for one man to not follow their superiors."

Daenerys chewed on the inside of her cheeks with a frown. She was certain that the man was going to pledge his sword and his company to her. But... could he be trusted?

[DAENERYS rises from her bath and steps to the floor. She stands naked before DAARIO, matching his confidence with her resolve.]

"Perhaps you shouldn't walk out naked before just anyone" Margaerys suggested with a smirk. "You never know what men would do to you if you do that."

Daenerys blushed.

[MISSANDEI steps behind her and slips her into a robe. DAENERYS walks to DAARIO.]

"Will you fight for me?"

[DAARIO nods]

"Swear to me."

[DAARIO unsheathes his sword and kneels, placing it across his knees.]

"The Second Sons are yours and so is Daario Naharis. My sword is yours, my life is yours, my heart is yours."

"Pretty words, but he's shown to be someone who does not follow orders, and openly rebels against those he serves. It would not be wise to trust him" Jon Arryn mutters with a frown.

"I don't think I have any other choice" Daenerys muttered. She needed the men.

Q. Who is the first known Man to kill a White Walker after 8000 years.

A) Jeor Mormont

B) Jon Snow

C) Samwell Tarly

D) Mance Ryder

E) Benjen Stark

"B) Jon Snow" Lyanna Stark said

"A) Jeor Mormont" Rickard Stark answers

"E) Benjen Stark " Brandon Stark the elder said

"C) Samwell Tarly" Jon Snow answers

"Do you really think a guy like Samwell Tarly can kill a white let alone a White Walker?" Robb asked

Jon shrugged his shoulders and said, "He does have the dragonlass which is usefull against the White Walkers"

[THE BROKEN FARMHOUSE, NIGHT, BEYOND THE WALL]

[The wind howls and whistles in the night, and crows caw outside. Inside the broken farmhouse, SAM tries to strike a fire with his flint stones. GILLY requests him to stop trying and join her under the Furs. SAM blinks rapidly, then sits next to GILLY. She spreads the furs over them both. SAM strikes up a conversation about how the baby winked at him before the talk moves on to naming the baby. After a while of talking, GILLY sets down the BABY and stacks the wood. She tries to strike the flint. Crows caw outside the broken barn. GILLY sits back down next to SAM once the fire is lit and blazing. The sounds of crows escalate into a chorus of relentless cawing. SAM and GILLY listen with fear. SAM nods at her with a slight smile and rises. SAM takes a burning torch from the fire. GILLY tells him to stay but SAM decides to check it out. SAM reaches the side of the barn and looks out. He grabs his sword as he exits. The godswood tree is swarmed by crows. They cry out in a cacophony. GILLY joins SAM outside, clutching her BABY. Every very branch of the godswood is covered by crows. There must be hundreds. Suddenly the crows fall silent. A growl comes out of the darkness beyond them. SAM looks into the woods and drops his torch. A lone figure walks towards them from the woods. SAM readies his sword, two-handed. The figure comes closer. It is a White Walker, approaching calmly.]

"It's come for the baby."

"Stay back!"

[The White Walker continues to approach. SAM extends his sword in front of him, an unconvincing threat. The White Walker is nearly upon SAM.]

"You stay back!"

"Oh, the boy has some courage after all" Olenna chuckled. Not many would have stood to fight that creature of the darkness.

[The White Walker grabs SAM's sword. It sounds a resonant ring and suddenly shatters in his grip. He levels SAM with an uppercut that sends him sprawling to the ground. He turns his attention to GILLY and her BABY. SAM draws the dragonglass knife from his furs. He lunges and plants the dragonglass knife in the shoulder blade of the White Walker. The ghoul screeches and turns to attack SAM. But the White Walker seizes up, howls, and falls to his knees, his Flesh hardening and cracking like ice. Suddenly, he shatters into tiny shards, practically vanishing into crystal dust.]

"The boy killed it!" Robert roared in approval, slamming his hands together for a thunderous applause. He was a warrior and he would always respect a show of bravery even in the face of certain death.

Ned's eyes though took it in with a critical look, as if he was absorbing information. His eyes then went to Jon.

Wrong answer by Lyanna Stark, Rickard Stark and Brandon Stark they lose the chance to answer the next two questions.

Congratulations to Jon Snow for the right answer he gains the fountain of youth. Anyone drinking from it becomes young again. It's been put inside your Pocket Dimension.

"Hisss.... Fountain of youth" Tyrion took a sharp breath as he head the prize, it's basically semi immortality as long as you aren't killed by someone you can remain young by drinking from it continuously.

Jon Arryn looked at his namesake Jon Snow and shook his head, "If he tries to come for the throne there is no way we could stop him now"

Jon Arryn knew many of his own bannermen will betray him for being able to drink from the fountain of youth and not only his even the lords of stormlands won't necessarily follow the Baratheon's if they could drink from the fountain of youth.

Jon Snow has now become an absolute figure who can't be killed or controlled, hopefully they could win something here allowing them to counter him.

"Dragonglass, you said Dragonglass kills them. What else?" Ned asked his son/nephew Jon Snow.

"Fire... and Valyrian Steel" Jon Snow said "After learning how to make it, I know it is made with dragonfire and thus it holds the fire's properties. It can kill a White Walker."

That was good for Ned. Because Jon knew how to make Valyrian Steel but who knows how difficult it is to produce.

But he knew Dragonglass worked now. He needed to start collecting them. Dragonstone was sure to have many... and perhaps he could reach out to Skaagos for more.

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