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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ibram Gaunt" data-source="post: 2796239" data-attributes="member: 13720">In the yard....Master Egen dismisses Creighton with a wave of his hand and walks away grumbling under his breath.  About halfway across the yard he stops and turns to watch two riders enter through the gatehouse in a cloud of dust.  Their tabards bearing the Redfort, they dismount and talk quietly with the stableboys that come to take their lathered mounts.  Captain Costen pulls his gaze away from the newcomers to address the young Redfort.  My lord, we will take this up at another time, but I urge you to practice.  You'll can overcome your frusteration with dedication and love of the blade.  Your father wishes me to make a true knight of you but I'm afraid that at this pace, he will be sorely disappointed."Summoning Josef, Costen starts across the yard to meet the newcomers but turns back at the last instant.  Furrowing his brow he addresses Rhin Snow, your taunts do nothing to help matters, either make a contribution to his training or take your jabs elsewhere."_______________________Lady Opel's SolarMelyssa searces Lady Opel's eyes and manner for any sort of deception or ulterior motive but finds that she cannot so easily read the Dornish woman.  Later, Melyssa makes the rounds of the fortress speaking to this person and that in Lady Opel's houshold.  After some time Melyssa runs across the wetnurse, Hilda in the kitchens.  Over a cup of cider she relates how Lord Horton came to marry her.  My lady was just widowed after Edwyn died in King's Landing during the sacking.  She too along with all of us in her household were set upon by Lannister men when Lord Horton came along with his riders.  He spared us from certain shame and death but it was very clear from the start that things were amiss.  It was almost as if Lady Opel owed a debt to him for his gallantry.  Soon after the lady became very quiet and reclusive and the two were married soon after. "Hilda also speaks of their consumation and how afterward there was a problem but she seems very reluctant to speak of it. ___________________________Back in the yard....Jasper having just come from the keep sees a welcome scene before him.  Men sparring in the yard, watchmen about their duties and the smell of horse from the stables all come togther to invigorate the young heir.  Upon seeing Jasper Captain Costen comes over with a young man wearing the Redfort colors in his train.  His clothes are coated in a layer of dust from a hard ride.  Costen turns to gesture to the young man This is Ser Rycen McFaddyn, he is an outrider for your father and he has welcome news!  Lord Horton is much more ahead of schedule than we thought.  He will be here on the morrow! Ser Rycen here was a man of your fathers many years ago and has recently come back into his service at Dragonstone."After the pleasantries Costen excuses himself to make ready the guard leaving Rhin, Creighton, Jasper and Ser Rycen in the yard._____________________________The Maester's StudyMycha rifles through the old books and papers and happens upon a very old book which appears to be a stained, leather bound book with rotted and dogeared pages.  The writing is smudged in many places and there are holes in some of the pages where insects and mice have eaten away at it.  It's cover reads "A History of the Redforts and a lineage of the Clan".  Which seems odd for the term 'Clan' isn't normally used when referring to a Noble House.</blockquote>

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