8 Boudin noir

Today is a very special day as maester has allowed me to eat meat. Don't get me wrong I am not complaining about breast milk but once in a while your body demands some change.

My excitement was however short-lived as the maester tried to spoon-feed me in the great hall of the castle, I protested and refused to be fed. I cannot bear such insult to be fed by anyone, especially an old man, I would have at least considered if it was a beautiful woman. As my plea was unheard, for the first time I felt angry. I was tolerating him every time he violated my privacy by touching and pinching me without asking with the excuse of checking my health. I know I am a bit unreasonable but he should do that after I can speak at least.

My eagerness to eat the broth with lamb meatballs and my longstanding irritation for being unable to use my hands for a long time merged with my anger for maester. I shouted at the top of my voice " Unhand me this second or I will kill you the first chance I get I promise you this maester"

The whole of the great hall became eerily quiet. The whites of my eyes turned completely red due to my anger and my lungs working at full power. With sky-blue pupils in the background of blood red and a scowl full of hatred on my handsome face, I was looking downright terrifying. The invisible pressure realized from my powerful soul suffocated everyone in the great hall.

Maester as the target of my anger was completely frozen in place, after a second of silence where even the howls of wind in the castle were momentarily stopped the whole hall was frozen in time. As the trembling maester dropped his spoon everyone came back to their senses. The maester hurriedly removed the furs tying my body.

As soon as I was freed I stood up on the dining table where I was placed. Before anyone could react I formed a tight fist with my thumb up and using all my power I stuck my thumb into maester's eye. I knew my muscle power was insufficient and my finger bones and joints fragile. Hence I used my thumb and as I leaned completely to use all my body weight into the thrust.

With a loud shriek from maester, everyone was shocked to find blood and fluid running down my hand and my thumb knuckle deep into maester's eye. The maester shrieked like a banshee. While everyone was processing the scene before them I as my final act twisted my thumbs eliciting another loud shriek from the maester.

This woke everyone up from their stupor as a guard sitting close to me was the first to reach us. As he was about to touch me, I looked at him and said "Touch me without my permission and I'll see to it that your whole family flies through the moon door". He stood stunned at his place as the guard arriving after him wisely pulled the maester off without touching me.

As his shriek died down and everyone was huddled close I spoke in a very firm but low voice like a whisper, "The next time you cross me I will make death seem stranger's blessing to you". Everyone looked at me with a mix of fear and incredulity.

I turned and sat down breathing heavily. As I was gathering enough air for myself and trying to calm my beating heart which was beating like it would explode any second. Jon Arryn who was shaken by the scene was shocked and as he came to his senses he started scolding Altair.

" Altair contain your anger, don't be unreasonable, my boy. You cannot do such gruesome and unhonourable acts against a servant of our house who merely wished to feed you. You have just learned to form a full sentence and yet you brandish threats like swords, I will have no…."

As my breathing eased I interrupted him directly and shouted, "Shut up, you honourable fool". As the great hall again descended into strange silence everyone looked at me with bewildered gaze. I didn't even give them a second glance and sat down on the table.

as there was no spoon, I started eating with my hands and grabbed a meatball. touching the lamb meatball resulted in the activation of Something within me, and this made me freeze for a few seconds. Meanwhile, my Father, who came back from his daze, started a new round of scolding. As he kept babbling and scolding, I came back to my senses and started furiously devouring all the meatballs.

my father seeing that I was ignoring him and eating my food. He asked the servants to take the maesters to his study, where he could treat himself. He then asked all the people to take their respective seats.

The dinner resumed in strange silence, while eating I was focused and thinking about my newfound abilities.