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"You flatter me," he said smirking while cuddling her.

She only chuckled at his comment, thinking to herself that he in return made her actually happy in return. Looking at Minha, making sure she wouldn´t tease John again she gave her a lecturing look to make her leave them for a bit so they could enjoy the last moments before they had to seperate again for an unknown time.

"Sending the hawk to stand guard?" John joked. "That's a good hawk." He moved Naerys closer to him, holding his arms around her and kissed her gently on her cheek.

Naerys laughed hard at his continueing gentle attitude though clinging tighter on him. "Oh if your crows would see us now, or any of the free folk. They surely would think we are are lovers. Are you always like that with women though or is it just me?"

"If my men indeed had seen us, then they would have been furious." That was true, therefor he had to be careful to not let them see him with her. He was the commander and had broken his sworn oath. But he didn't feel guilt about, it felt so good. He kissed her lips softly.

"Actually I´m almost sad they will never see. I´m sure their facial expression would look hilarious." She said smirking until she started to laugh. Kissing him passionately back for a while now she backed off and let go of him to stand up. As much as she would have loved to stay with him longer and even do more with him than kissing it was time they eventually seperate. After all though she was sure that she would see him again, even alone so it didn´t pain her too much yet.

"Me too, but if they did see us, then both of us would be dead!" After they had kissed for a while it was time to separate, even though he didn't want to. John got up on Thunderstruck and waved to Naerys before he started to ride with haste, only that Thunderstruck suddenly stopped.

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John was scraped up and dirty once he came back to the wall. One of the stableboys widened his eyes once he saw the commander. "What happened to you?" he asked. "My horse stopped!" John said after a while with a flat voice. "And you didn't?"