Lost Lion {Daemon}

Alice is at home, she collects wood for heat tonight. She must stand on her own when Arthur is in town. She sings and removes of her neck a gold necklace engraved with a lion. She found it in the attic with a pram. Thinking it was her mother jewelry she took it. A noise in the bushes took her out of her dream. She scans the area, loose wood and walking slowly to take a fork. They do better as a weapon but she has nothing better to hand ..."Show Yourself !" A man appears in front of her, she points to the fork. "I know why you're here! Let us quiet at the end!" Another man grabbed her from behind. "Let go me animal !" She screams his lungs, struggling like hell. She managed to reach over and further before hitting something and fall to the ground, she looks at the man in front of her. "Please sir, help me ..." Maybe the man with the other two, but she does not reach other choice but to ask for help.

Daemon was just on the way to Lannisport to pay his favorite places there a visit when he suddenly heard someone screaming. A high pitched voice, the voice of a little girl! He made his horse turn and walk further into the forest. There she was, a little blonde girl screaming and shrugging like hell and two men trying to grab her. Immediately he got up from his horse and walked quickly over where the scene was happening.

When he got there the girl seemed to have been able to get a bit away from them only to hit Daemon and fall on the ground. He screamed to the two. "Leave the girl alone." Making a step closer to them he slowly got his sword out. One of the awefully few ones with a golden lion head on the handle. Daemon might not wear his familys colors that often but the sword was always very close to him, showing his enemies easily better to back off and run away. It took a few moments but then the men finally realised to run away and leave the girl alone if they want to live.

As soon as they were gone Daemon put the sword back to it´s sheath and reached down to the girl to offer her a hand. "Don´t worry young lady you should be safe now. I´m not here to harm you."

Alice watches the scene with surprise. She is relieved when the men leave. She sees the lion on the sword and looks at her necklace briefly. Then she looks at the Lord face it hesitates, then grabbed his hand to get up. "Thank you sir, I do not know what I would have done without you." She curtsied. "Can I invite you to eat something? We do not have much ... But I really want to thank you." She hesitates a moment, writhing fingers. "Sir ... This lion on your sword ... It is an emblem? Or a decoration?" Maybe was it a fashionable decoration, she rarely went to town she did not know it was the emblem of Lannister. "Excuse me for ask this ... but..." She took her necklace and look it, hesitating to show him.

He smiled at the young girl and helped her up. "No need to thank me, as a noble man it is my duty to help such lovely young ladies like you but if you intend to do so I´d gladly accept your invitation."

When the girl spoke about the sword he looked back at it and pulled it a bit out so she was able to see the lion better. "Yes it is indeed an emblem." He slightly bowed for the girl. "If I may introduce my self, my name is Daemon Lannister. Son of Tyrion Lannister and cousin of Phoebus Lannister out current head of the house."

Seeing her showing her necklace to Daemon he was quite suprised. It was more than rare to see someone having jewlery like this neclace without being a known part of the family. He took a closer look at her and indeed some features in her face seemed slightly familiar but of course there was a chance he could be wrong in his suggestions.

"May I ask where you got this from?"

"Thanx for the compliment, but i'm a basic girl" she smile to him "oh ... I did not think being in the presence of someone so important ..." She bowed again. "I'm Alice Snow um ... twin sister of Arthur Snow ..." She blushed having nothing else to say, she had no title, not even a name. "Lannister .... as the city Lannisport? Sorry for my lack of knowledge my Lord, but I'm rarely in town, and I have not learned the names of the great families .... it's an honor Sir "She did not meet someone so important in his woods. "that?" She shows her necklace. "I found it in our attic, in a pram, probably that of my brother and me when we were little ... I thought it was my mother's jewelry ...."

"So you don´t leave your home that often do you? Where do you live?" When the girl continued to talk about her necklace the situation seemed to get more and more mysterious. "Could you tell me more about your family?"

"No ... my brother across town to work, but he does not want me to go too far away from home ..." She looks and shows a direction. "I live in the house you see there." She licks his lips, thinking. "Our father was a soldier, he already had a family but my mother did not know. He left when she fell pregnant ... That's what she said to ... that's why we call it Snow .. . "She looks at the man," but between you and me ... I think our mother lied about our father ... She always avoided the subject, and could not give a description of him ... and I can not get an answer now she's gone. "Alice seems sad at once, thinking back to the death of his adoptive mother.

"Hmmm I see." Of course it was quite common for some children to be bastards or not knowing about their parents at all but it always made Daemon a bit sad. He knew from his fathers that parents can be very terrible to you but in the end it is always better to know about your family as much as possible.

He kneed down to the girl so they could see each other directly in the eyes. "So you and your brother are on your own aren´t you?"

She looks at the man out of his thoughts. "Hm ... yes My brother often work in town, and I make jams and some remedy I learned in books ... I sell them at the market ... Before our mother worked as a maid but for three years we're alone ... "She looks at the sky becomes cloudy. "If you do not mind we could go ... The weather is cloudy and always keep my invitation." She smiled shyly.

He nooded at her words, showing her that he had listened carefully and understood. "I´d gratefully accepting your offer but I have my horse near by which would need some place too. If your home has enough space we could go there but otherwise I could also bring you to your brother since Lannisport isn´t too far away by horse."

"ah yes your horse" it seems pensive for a moment, she is reluctant to leave the house. Arthur still several days of work she did not want a pop ... but it does there was no place where the horse daemon could stay. "Let's go see Arthur then I miss him I can not wait to see him again." She smiled at Daemon, happy to see her twins earlier.