a-maimed-man-and-bitter:
Jaime slung his leg over the horse, groaning with pain. It lanced sharply up his thigh and into his groin, bad enough that he almost threw up. he clung to the reins, hoping against hope that he didn’t pass out.
“Don’t let me fall,” he said. “I don’t intend to be the first Lannister to die tumbling off a horse.”
He felt her climb on behind him and then spurred the horse onward.
The blizzard was intense and thick, and with the trees in every direction it quickly became apparent that finding the wall was all but impossible. There were no landmarks he could navigate by, and visibility was so poor.
He turned a corner only to find himself back at the shelter again.
“We need to wait for a break in the weather,” he shouted. Trying to hide just how worried he was.
there was no way for them to see which way they were facing, and she sighed a little as she chewed on her bottom lip. “the wind hasn’t broken in hours, who knows when it will again,” she told him as she yelled over the wind, her heart pounding in her chest she felt like this might be it. would they die out here? this is what she’d signed up for wasn’t it? “We’ll take shelter in the trees, they block the wind with all the branches and we’ll be able to take shelter there,” she told him as her eyes darted around, she tightened the fabric around her face so only a sliver of skin showed so she could see. “Unless you’ve a better idea?”










