Chapter 58

As the Days continued to trickle by, nearly all of your concerns were slowly swept away by your Family while your Mind swiftly recovered from the built-up agitation and boredom, which returned some Colour to the World. Though while things were fortunately still going smoothly even with your current predicament of being stuck with your Mother, more so than should reasonably be possible, no new problems emerged to replace the solved ones which unnerved you to no end, for the World simply doesn't work like that. Perhaps the Gods had a Hand in it, but things were going so unnaturally smoothly that you couldn't help but worry a bit.

For very few issues not directly related to War could be solved in just one push, and even your Father should have some trouble playing the King as he apparently did to get what you proposed to him so long ago. Mayhaps the Targaryens are destined to fall, meaning no God is actually backing them up and that's why the King approached your Father so openly, or perhaps you simply did more Damage to the Man's Mind than you had anticipated you could from so far away.

But then again, your Father didn't hesitate to use the Situation, so it didn't really matter enough to get obsessed with you supposed, whatever issue might come up shouldn't stand a chance against your Father and the Hosts of the Rock even if they can't be deployed in full Strength after all. And while it was quite surprising that the King actually gave some Land of House Tyrell to your Family to make sure the Westerlands wouldn't come out of all this unharmed, you did deal with a Madman.

You guessed that enough random seeming Proposals delivered with crafty Words by the best Spies and Sympathisers serving House Lannister in the Capital did have a decent Chance to sooner or later plant the right Thoughts into him over the Years. Though despite how much Gold your Family invested to get it done, it still felt wrong that a King ruling a Continent would commit such a Blunder, it must be the Incest you guessed, even a crazed Mind wouldn't be enough for someone to be this inept.

That being said, you did make sure to sell giving more Lands to your Family as good as you could when the first Agents you sent asked you how they were supposed to accomplish their Mission. You were sure that the Troops would have their work cut out for them with all the Pointers you gave indirectly to the Crown, yet this also meant that you knew what you had to deal with for the most part. Which seeing as you never seriously thought this would actually work, wasn't all that much with how most of your Ideas that could do some genuine Damage never even crossed your Lips, you didn't have a Reason to make a List of Strategies against your own House after all.

Hence, a few hundred raided Armouries and four or five thousand deserted Troops striking from the few Forests in the Region should be all that will cause serious Attrition in the open Lands of the Reach. So a few thousand Losses at most was what you were expecting, enough to create the Illusion that the King's Decision was right and didn't need correcting. It showed that the Crown had truly no Idea just how much Strength your House had actually amassed in the Rock with how the Loyalists supporting the Crown still thought that a few thousand Losses would suffice to stop your Father's Ambitions, what a Joke.

If you disregarded how unnatural it all felt you would say that everything was going quite well, but with how you were still stuck in the embrace of your Mother for a bit, you were sure that you wouldn't be allowed to join the Hunt for the Enemies of your House. Well, it's not really the end of the World that your Father and his Men would have all the fun given the Situation and his Stress, but you won't give up just yet. There was still a Chance that if you asked your Mother nicely enough that you could send some Statues along with your Father, Hope is cheap after all, and you didn't want to waste more Men or time than was necessary.

Especially with how things were working out so nicely with the Ironborn and the Vale, you didn't want to risk that any Mistakes no matter how small would add up now that the Crown together with the Tyrells and the Starks managed to fully constrain the Ironborn to their own Waters once more. For you knew that with the Coasts secure, everyone could see that the Ironborn effectively lost any and all Chances they still had at winning their Rebellion, which would mean more Houses would begin supporting the Crown for a final push, but that was all things considered okay.

For in the light of everything that happened it was clear to you that it took the King far too long to still gain much from his Victory, there were of course still enough Factions and Houses in the Realm that welcomed the now guaranteed Victory to restore all the lost Strength to the Crown for the time being. But as long as your House didn't make any major moves for a few Years, that Support should bleed away once more, given that the King wouldn't trust a Lord joining him only now in the slightest.

You could imagine what happened to Lords the Crown didn't trust these Days, so yeah, you give the King two, no, three Years at most for the Realm to break again once the War is finished, depending on the long term Reaction from House Tyrell. If they see merit in weakening the Westerlands for supporting the Ironborn with Ships, there's naturally a good Chance that the Peace will last a full three Years, but you seriously doubt that they would have the Strength to hold the Reach together that long. But for now you simply decide to focus on convincing your Mother to allow you to send some Statues as well, she surely wouldn't be against additional Protection for Jaime as he joins your Father in his Journey to the Reach, right?