As we rejoin Bran and his small entourage, he is running in the mind and heart of Summer, his great direwolf. He/they refer to him/themselved as the prince in their intermingled thoughts. Unlike his physical existence in his broken body, while intertwined in Summer, Bran can run free, hunt, and even fight with his smaller wolf cousins. To Bran and Summer, Summer is the Prince of the Green, Prince of the Wolfwood and Bran is the Prince of Winterfell, heir to House Stark, and trueborn heir to the Kings of the North.
Bran, his faithful servant Hodor, and the two Reed kids are staying in a ruined tower, hiding from enemies. Bran is trying to learn how to better use his warg powers, but being in the mind of Summer is so exhilirating to him, that he goes along with Summer, rather than trying to control him. And as Summer, he can feel the rest of his pack!Quote:His angry brother with the hot green eyes was near, the prince felt, though he had not seen him for many hunts. Yet with every sun that set he was more distant, and he had been the last. The others were far scattered, like leaves blown by the wild wind. Sometimes he could sense them, though, as if they were still with him, only hidden from his sight by a boulder or a strand of trees. He could not smell them, nor hear their howls by night, yet he felt their presence at his back...all but the sister they had lost. His tail drooped when he remembered her. Four now, not five. Four and one more, the white one who has no voice.
Jojen Reed is worried because Bran has great potential power as a warg. he sees Bran as a winged wolf chained to the earth, who must learn how to fly, but feels that he, as a dreamer of true dreams, is not the right teacher for Bran, a potential greenseer. He worries because Bran loses himself inside Summer's mind rather than learning to control him. Jojen wants Bran to go north, to find the Three Eyed Crow he has dreamed of, and let the crow become the powerful teacher that Bran needs.
The Reeds decide to let Bran, their prince, make the decision of where they should go -- north of the Wall to find his teacher or else go forth to find safety with some of King Robb's allies. In the end, with tears in his eyes, Prince Bran decides Quote:"I want to fly," he told them."Please. Take me to the crow." Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell<i>Edited by: Duchess of Malfi at: 4/3/03 11:20:02 pm </i>
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