Quote:I am not a lady...I'm a wolf.
In chapter 22 Arya is traveling with Gendry and members of the Brotherhood without Banners looking for Lord Beric. Everywhere they go people tell them he has been killed in one way or another Quote:"He's dead." The woman sounded sick. "The Mountain caught him, and drove a dagger through his eye... and Quote:The Lannisters caught Lord Beric near the Gods Eye. He was hanged. Everytime the Brothers say that the priest Thoros saved Beric in time, and that Beric is alive...they claim that he is a very difficult man to kill. To add to the general madness of the Riverlands, now the Karstarks are doing their part, wandering around looking for Jaime... One important passage of foreseeing happens in this chapter throug hthe eyes of a tiny little woman who lives on a high hill, and who shares her visions for a song... Quote:"The old gods stir and will not let me sleep," she heard the woman say. "I dreamt I saw a shadow with a burning heart butchering a golden stag, aye. I dreamt of a man without a face, waiting on a bridge that swayed and swung. On his shoulder perched a drowned crow with seaweed hanging from his wings. I dreamt of a roaring river and a woman that was a fish. Dead she drifted, with red tears on her cheeks, but when her eyes did open, oh, I woke from terror." I'm pretty sure that the first one talks of Renly and his murder by the shadow baby, and I think the last one refers to the Red Wedding's aftermath (I can't say more because I don't want to spoil) but what does that middle one refer to??? At the end of the chapter the Brothers take Arya to Acorn Keep and lady Smallwood, who bathes, dresses, and fusses over her, much to Arya's wolfly disgust. Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell ****Tavern Wench of DOGMA, the Defenders of George Martin's Art****<i></i>
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