WHO: Jorah and Daenerys . WHAT: Jorah reports to his Queen. WHERE: Daenerys' quarters in Winterfell. WHEN: Evening. WARNINGS: tbd.
It was no easy thing for Jorah Mormont to return to the North. Despite his great desire to see his homeland again he had always been aware of the consequences that awaited him were he to return, pardon or no pardon. The North remembers. Any piece of parchment would have done little to shield him from his fate especially after a new King had been claimed and what was a boy to do if not finish the work of his father? Jorah had no doubt of it much less what he deserved but when his Queen called for him he came, as surely as he had followed her through deserts of sea and grass, through sieges and some horrors that would haunt the both of them the rest of their lives. She called, and so he came.
His loyalty to his Queen was not great enough to mask how wrong it had felt to enter through the gates of Winterfell, the castle of the late Lord who would have had his head if he had not fled across the Narrow Sea first. Jorah had no pardon, he had given that up long ago to continue alongside Daenerys. Instead he came with the rest of her council ahead of an army and that, in the face of an inevitable undead incursion and the threat of another long night was the only thing, was likely the only thing that kept most of the northern men and women he encountered at bay. Still, Jorah was more than aware of their stares and hushed words.
Things would not alleviate for him but at least once he saw Daenerys his purpose would be before him again and the rest he could weather, as always. Striding along one of the battlements, his leather knee high boots leaving prints in his wake, Jorah adjusted his thick fur lined hood over his head. Although he had been with Daenerys since the beginning even he paused outside her temporary quarters before the Unsullied stationed at her door to identify himself.
"Jorah Mormont, to see her Grace", Jorah said, his breath crystallizing in the air before him as he took down his hood.