Blood And Iron (ASOIAF/GoT)

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POV of Varys

I was so focused on training new little birds to restore my spy network in the reach, that I did not pay attention to what was happening in the capital.

In the last few weeks, there has been an increase in the crimes of robbery, smuggling, but above all violence among the population, there have been many disappearances of golden cloaks, although I doubt that they have simply disappeared, they must be dead, but the most painful thing is that many of my little birds have disappeared, their beautiful songs have stopped reaching my ears leaving me almost blind inside the city.

Every day that passes more and more guards and birds disappear and this is no longer a coincidence, we have enemies among us and extremely skilled, so far they have not left even the slightest proof of their actions, the gold cloaks have not found anything so far about the deaths of their comrades.

This made me start checking everyone we have hired for castle service, something quite difficult, because with the speed with which servants are burned alive requires me to be on the lookout every day for new servants, as the mad king can only be calmed when he speaks to his son

But now that Rhaegar has concentrated on preparing the army to fight Robert, the mad king's madness has been unleashed, every day servants and nobles alike are burned, but when I began to review the past of the servants I found a big problem, one of the servants caught my attention because of his peculiar features

Asten, was a servant of the kitchens, who lives alone in his home near the flea bottom, but with the passage of time has begun to take another type of attributions within the duties to the castle, as it has shown an ability to have his head down when necessary but high for promotions and awards

This servant upon seeing him gives me the same feeling as the king's new hand, something rather gloomy, because this man has proven to be an expert in diverting the gaze of the mad king to others, showing that he knew how to survive in the court of a madman

But what made me focus on him is that he tends to disappear from the castle, there are times when he finishes his work at an impressive speed and then he would disappear from the castle for all the rest of the time he had saved by working quickly

I tried to follow him, but this man was incredibly fast and if I lost sight of him for a few seconds he would simply vanish into thin air, if I didn't see him with my own eyes I would never have been able to believe it, no matter how much I followed him or how many servants I put to watch him, he always found a way to disappear.

He was elusive and spoke scarcely, everything told me that he was a spy, but until now I have nothing to incriminate him, I know that if I only tell the mad king, he will kill him, but if the king finds out that we have spies it could worsen his paranoia and I decided to finish him personally, for the good of the kingdom that man must die.

When I decided that it was time to finish with this possible spy, I decided to poison his drink with belladonna, a common poison, but that should get rid of this problem once and for all and I can concentrate on the other problems that plague the city, because the fear among the population is beginning to spread among the population because they are not only rumors of the disappearance of gold cloaks, they are true facts.

Making sure that the cup from which Asten drinks water, had a good dose of nightshade, I retired to my quarters to coordinate with my little birds about the information we have about the bandits that are causing chaos in the city.

The next day I met with the commander of the city guard in order to coordinate with him on how we can put an end to the damn thieves who have dedicated themselves to kill or make the guards disappear, before the city guard collapses, as there have been several complaints within the guard that this situation continues the guards could mutiny.

Rhaegar has taken almost all of the men fit to serve in the army, the rest are either too sick or physically weak to serve and with the shortage of grain since the loss of the reach it will not do much good to have an untrained army as we cannot guarantee food stability, but equally the guard was accepting all that could be received as they had lost many of their members in the last few weeks since the disappearances and deaths began

The quality of the men recruited was pretty bad, skinny and short men, but luckily a group of men had arrived in the city from the north of the crown lands who were quite tall and strong and have proven themselves very skilled to help against the problems we are facing.

''Lord Varys, thank you for coming, everything seems to be getting worse, not long ago 2 patrols were ambushed more than twenty dead today, we have to do something, almost no one wants to sign up for the gold cloaks recruitment and we are having desertions within our members, they are terrified of being next'' said the commander of the guard very distressed.

''I know the troubles you are going through my lord, my little birds are looking for nests and when they find them their songs will come and we will find the culprits of these abominable acts'' I said with a serene tone.

''Yes that's great that, but we must take drastic measures, as I said we have desertions within the guards, yesterday more than fifteen guards left their cloak and I think they abandoned the city'' said the commander looking at me with a frightened face

''that is quite serious my lord, but we are busy with what is happening in the south, could you give me a report of where these bandits that torment you so much usually attack''I said looking at the commander

''Well, lord Varys, the attacks are usually carried out in the secondary streets of the city, places with few witnesses, but in some cases there have been ambushes in other areas of the city, the street of silk, inside the commercial sector and near the port even in the sept of baelor there are usually large attacks where they seek to ambush the patrols, they are no longer afraid, they are becoming more daring with their actions'' said the commander.

''As soon as we don't send patrols the cases of robberies shoot up and all the merchants begin to complain about this, nobody knows who robbed them, they only know that at one moment someone cut their bag, where they keep the coins, in some stores they say that they stole the day's earnings and an owner of a brothel on Silk Street said that they stole the earnings of a whole moon at night'' said the commander wiping his sweat.

''Thank you for the information I will coordinate with the men of the noble houses to start accompanying their men in their patrols'' I said trying to calm the commander of the guard down.

A guard entered our room interrupting our conversation

''Commander I have information about the bandits'' said a rather tall guard.

''Ah, captain Duncan tell me what happened today'' said the commander rather nervously

''We found one of the bandits' hideouts, we found city guard armor in some of the crates they had hidden, during the fight in the hold we lost four guards and we managed to kill a group of twelve bandits'' said the guard

''Did you find anything else?'', said the commander.

''Yes, we found this map, I think this is where they meet'' said the guard handing the map to the commander.

''Tell me, Duncan, were you not able to capture any of them alive?'', I said with an intriguing tone.

''M'lord I regret to tell you that bandits do not cooperate with being captured, some prefer to cut their own throats to avoid being captured'' said the guard.

''Oh, too bad I'd like to hear what those men say, be sure to capture some for next time'' I said looking at the guard

''Yes m'lord, with your permission, I must retire, I must get back to guarding the streets'' said the guard as he left the room

''Curious this map, should we investigate?'', said the commander looking at me

''Yes we should investigate, but we must act fast, if the bandits find out about this they might leave this place, so I recommend you to go with a big group of your men to finish them'' I said looking at the commander.

after discussing for a few minutes I decided to go back to the castle, as I needed to hear the songs of my little birds.

but the first thing I noticed when I arrived at the castle, was the image of Asten cleaning the floors.

'He should be dead, I poisoned him, how come he is still working?'

I continued walking to my room and when I entered, I immediately checked the poison vial.

It can't be, he didn't drink the poison, no, he drank the water, it wasn't enough'.

'That man must die, it is clear that he is a spy'.

I took a glass and put some wine in it and put a good amount of poison in the wine to make sure that this time this servant would die.

I left my room and went to look for a servant.

''Hello, could you call Asten to my room, I need him to clean up something I spilled something in my room'' I said with my serene tone.

''Yes m'lord I will let him know right away'' said the servant as she started to leave the corridors.

I stood there patiently waiting for Asten to arrive

When I heard a knock at the door I prepared myself.

"Come in" I said in a calm tone.

Asten came in and looked at me

''M'lord Varys what can I do for you'' Asten said looking at the floor.

''I needed to speak with you Asten'' I said looking at the servant.

''I thought I needed to clean something m' lord''' said the servant

''Yes, but I wanted to talk to you about something, but first you accompany me with a glass of wine''' I said while showing him the glass

''m'lord, I can't drink while I work, I could be punished for being drunk'' said Asten

''I insist if anyone asks tell them I asked for it'' I said insisting him to drink the wine.

''Aye, you're the boss m'lord'' said Asten as he started to drink the wine.

''All of it Asten'' I said for him to finish drinking all the contents of the glass.

When he drank all the contents and put the glass on the table

''What is it you wanted to talk to me about, m'lord Varys'' said Asten

''I think you are a spy Asten'' I said looking into his eyes to see his reaction.

''Me a spy?, m'lord Varys, I've lived in the capital since I was born, I've always been loyal to the Targaryen'' Asten said a little worried.

''What do you do when you disappear after you finish your work, I have seen you and you finish your work extremely fast and you disappear, no one knows where you are'' I said looking at the servant

''Well, m'lord, if I'm honest, I meet together with one of princess Ellia martell's servants, we have a relationship that we have kept secret, I know it seems suspicious, but it's the truth m'lord'' said Asten rather scared

''Interesting, I will confirm your story, Asten, you may leave'' I said as I watched the nervous servant leave my room.

When the servant came out, I went to confirm his story and to my surprise it was true, he had as a lover one of the maidens of the princess of Dorne and she confirmed that they met frequently, to have warm conversations, but if this is true I think that I poisoned an innocent person.