Their cheering came to an abrupt end when the sound of a crying baby came from behind him.
A chill went down his back as he remembered all the horror movies in which he heard the crying of a baby and he slowly turned back to look at the bundle which the White Walker had carried with him.
He frowned at it.
Ygritte moved forward to check on the bundle he had took her arm and held her back.
"What?" she asked, confused.
"We don't know what it is." He said "Everyone. Back away from the bundle."
They followed his orders without question and he slowly moved toward the bundle and then removed the clothe covering it with his sword.
The crying became intense and he saw the face of a… real baby in front of him.
He was not fooled.
He took out his wand an cast a dozen charms on it to make sure that it was not a ice murder baby in human baby form.
The results told him that the baby was just that… a baby.
But… why the hell was the White Walker taking it with him.
Was there something special about the baby.
He cast a few more charms but found nothing special about it.
The baby had been crying this whole time and Ygritte's maternal instinct finally forced her to act.
She pushed him to the side and picked the baby from the ground "It's just a baby" she said.
He didn't stop her. It really was just an ordinary baby.
What he didn't understood was why was it carrying a baby.
Did the White Walkers plan on sacrificing babies for some kind of rituals?
Or maybe they knew of a way to turn a baby into a White Walker baby?
The questions kept coming to him and he had no answers.
He turned to Kalmyr, the best tracker in his team and asked "Can you find where the baby came from?"
Kalmyr bent down and sniffed the baby a few times before he looked up and nodded at him.
"I can." If a snow storm doesn't come and wipe away the smell then yes. It's doable.
"Do it then." He said.
Finding the White Walker took them a whole month. And even that was mostly luck.
He doubted that he would be able to find another White Walker any time soon. And the Banners had already gathered at Winterfell.
If he didn't want to be late to the war then he needed to hurry up.
This war was his only chance to build a reputation as a great battle commander among the people of the South.
But before that, he needed to investigate this baby.
The whole thing was far too fishy for him to let slide without any investigation.
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