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ASOIAF RARE PAIRS WEEK 2022

Day 7: Free choice/ Time Travel AU -> Nedrya for @atypical-asoiaf-pairs

Arya had been invited by Ned Dayne to come to Starfall and staying some days together.

One day while they were on a trip throughout the Torrentine, Arya and Ned found suddenly a strange man appeared behind a rock formation that was close to the riverside. The man seemed diorientid and confused, his cloak was white decorated with small green hands.

"He must be a Gardener, look at his cloak" Ned said.

Arya remembered a frew Maester Luwin's history about the Age of Heroes and the old kings of the Reach, Old Nan's tales about the legendary Garth Greenhand and his descendants like Brandon of the Bloody Blade, Rose of the Red Lake, Flores the Fox and Garth the Gardener...

"House Gardener ended with Aegon's conquest, it would be impossible to find a member of the family nor their bannermen "

"Maybe he's an actor from a play, I'll go and ask him"

"Ser, can we help you?

"I'm not a knight"

The man told that he was Rodrik and that he was member of the guard of Garth the Gardener and that he was on his way to Highgarden but he got lost and  he got surprised that he suddenly appeared in Dorne.

"I'm Arya Stark of Winterfell and he's Edric Dayne of Starfall, we're now in the river Torrentine, not far from Blackmont. I live in the North, but Edric knows this land very well" Arya thought that maybe neither Winterfell or Starfall existen yet if it was true that he was from the past, but she tried to introduce them to him and try to confort him.

"We were about going fishing, would you want to come with us, Rodrick?" Edric asked him. He was so sweet. Arya thought the same. We were thinking to say the same thing, just like she and Jon.

They sat by the river with Rodrik. He murmured something. Something about a witch who had brought him here. It was hard to understand him. A woman with dark hair and hazel eyes, he told.

All he remembered is that he was on a battlefield with Garth against the Casterlys, the woman told him that he could find a way to defeat them and he follow her, she told him to search information about the Age of Heroes in a great library, and the woman disappeared.

"Rodrik, come here, you got lost in your way, I can help you!

A woman whispered from afar.

"Garth needs you to be by his side for the next time, come with me"

The woman approached. At first Arya thought she might be the woman who had brought Rodrik here, but this one was blonde and had brown eyes.

"Are you another time wicht?"

"More or less, I guess the one who brought him here is an old friend of mine" She smiled. " Lady Stark, Lord Dayne , are you the ones that had been taking care of him? Thank you, sometimes it's difficult to locate an unexpected intrusion through the portals"

"What kind of portals are those?"

"I guess at this point I have to tell you the story" Arya and Ned listened with eyes wide opened.

"Centuries ago an old maester came to Sunspear offering Nymeria the spells he had been working during all his life, spells that create portals to travel through time.

'You can be the queen of time' Levy said.

"Levy spread his portals through Dorne, the rest of Westeros and even Essos, connecting all places and all times. And then Nymeria formed a secret guard to keep the portals safe."

"For people like me, it's our duty to keep everything as it was, I have to make sure that that man returns to his original period, so his intrusion doesn't interfere in the timeline. Time is what is.

We try to be discrete but sometimes we can't avoid that someone discovers by accident. You can join us or keep this as a secret. You choose, maybe now you're too young, but in the future both of you can be good recruits."

"Go to the Sandship and ask for Larra" she said, before she lead Rodrik where he  belonged.

Arya and Ned looked at each other.

"Maybe next time we can go on a trip to Sunspear" Arya asked later whrn they were gone.

"And adventure, it sounds great" Ned laughed.

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