S03Epilogue

## Season 3 Epilogue

### Summary:

The courtiers of House Glenbain, united with The Dread Company, travel east to Essos, though the trip does not go smoothly.

### Characters:

E'rybody

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## SEASON 3 EPILOGUE

Granted freedom but exile, The Dread Company and the Glenbain Courtiers were escorted to the docks of King's Landing.

They and their possessions were loaded onto two ships, the *Wise Rascal* and the *Dancer's Touch*. Each of them was greeted by Iqaq, captain of the Dancer's Touch and leader of the sailors. He had been well-paid by King Robert to take them to any of The Free Cities they would like to go.

## At Sea

After two days at sea, Iqaq invited the entire group to dine with him in his private cabin. He asked them where they would like to go. There was talk of one city or another. Clyde mentioned that he'd rather not go to Braavos. Fiyona suggested Lys, but Hamza disagreed.

"Oh, I think some of you are going to Lys," said Captain Iqaq. And he dashed away from the table, taking up arms with his men. The group, caught off guard and fighting expert slavers, were eventually subdued.

"I think I'll sell the ones I can to the Pleasure Houses of Lys," Iqaq said, "and the rest of you will have to go to the fighting pits of Tyrosh. Not nice, but it's the same profit for me."

Beaten, drugged, chained and caged, the two groups were sorted. Christor, Minerva, Torrhen and Wilfred were placed aboard the *Wise Rascal*, headed for Tyrosh. Alon, Clyde, Fiyona, Hamza, Rook and Whistler were kept on the *Dancer's Touch*, bound for Lys.

## Lost in the Storm

After a miserable day caged below decks, the sea became angry. The slavers attempted to lash the two ships together for stability, but they found themselves in a storm so fierce that their tethers broke. Water poured into the hold in a torrent. The slaves were up to their chests in water, trapped in their cages. Enormous black waves pounded and pounded on both of the ships.

The storm separated the two ships further and further. The last the crew of the *Dancer's Touch* saw of the *Wise Rascal* was that ship drifting into the horizon. The ship was leaning hard with water, already half-sunk.

When the weather cleared, Captain Iqaq and the *Dancer's Touch* could find no sign of the *Wise Rascal*. They judged the ship sunk and all hands lost.

## Lys

The *Dancer's Touch* arrived on the island of Lys. The most beautiful of the Free Cities, Lys was a warm and inviting place, a land of beautiful beaches and wild fruit trees. But Lys was also the world's capital in sex slavery, their famed Pleasure Houses served all manner of perversity. The group seemed doomed to a life of captivity and abuse.

But another slave's commotion on the docks made just enough distraction for the party to escape. Between Clyde, Hamza, Rook and Whistler, they were able to fight their way to freedom with their bare hands. They fled into the thick Lyseni forest with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

Fiyona said, "I have friends here."
Hamza replied, "I don't."

But the group felt it was worth the chance. They raced across the island to the Palace of Silk, a famous Pleasure House where Fiyona had learned her trade.

## Warning from a Friend

It took a great deal of skill and stealth, but they made their way to the Palace of Silk. But instead of finding help, Hesella the madame gave them a warning.

"Things have changed here," Hesella told Fiyona, "There is a slavemaster named Tregor Ormollen and he has usurped the Lyseni way. He has foreign money backing him. He is buying up brothels and mistreating his slaves. There is some group behind this that is looking for quick coin at any cost. You had best flee this place. I would, but I must try to protect my workers as best I can."

Hesella gave the group a small amount of money but told them she could never help them again. Their options exhausted, the party boarded a ship for Volantis, seeking the help of Zholos Rha and his wealthy family.

## Volantis

The party arrived in the Free City of Volantis. They were astonished by the size of it, at least double the size of King's Landing, with over a million inhabitants. The city was bustling with energy. The streets were filled with strange faces from all over the known world. Slaves, marked by tattoos on their faces, outnumbered free people by five to one.

They crossed the Long Bridge of Volantis, an entire town built atop a two-mile bridge, headed for the Old City and the home of House Rha. The Old City was ringed by an enormous black wall, two hundred feet high and made of fused black stone harder than steel. The guards at the gate laughed when they tried to enter. The Old City is only open to citizens of Volantis or people of Valyrian blood. Fiyona Riser, her dyed hair fading, explained that she not only had the old blood of Valyria, but they were friends of Zholos na Zholos Rha. They were soon allowed in.

The situation in Volantis was tense. Political conflict between the ruling Elephant Party and the Tiger Party were at a recent high. The Elephants represented the city's merchant class, advocating trade and cooperation with the other Free Cities. The Tigers represented the old Valyrian army, and sought to conquer the other Free Cities with hordes of sellswords.

## House Rha

Once the group were allowed into the Old City, they were taken to the home of Zholos na Zholos Zimdes Quesnohl aba Shogaz, matriarch and leader of House Rha. Zholos na Zholos listened intently and took pity on the weary travelers. She decided to promote Hamza Sand, granting him a small title within the city. Honouring the fallen Glenbains, Zholos na Zholas named Hamza's new House Gaz na Gaz Can Ta no Rey zin Westerosi ("Glenbain" is hard for speakers of Valyrian to pronounce.)

Zholos na Zholos introduced the group to her son, Zholos Rha (widower to the captured Katryna Glenbain) and Teesha Rha, his younger sister. They all wished that the Western savages would find comfort and purpose in their new home.

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