Wednesday, 9 January 2019

ASoS 39: Arya 529

Lord Beric and crew are out raiding. They find some Bloody Mummers taking some villagers hostage and fight them in a battle, and hold trials of the rest of them. Roose Bolton's septon is among them and he gets hung.

We get a bit of detail about the mechanics of how Thoros heals Beric. By breathing fire into him, apparently. Thoros was as surprised as anyone that it worked, but it gets harder each time he does it. And no, he can't revive Ned's headless corpse.

The previously released Hound turns up and asks for his gold back, then goes away again. I'm not sure what that was all about.

Arya is to be taken to Riverrun. Gendry has decided to stay behind to be Beric's blacksmith, much to her dismay. I expect she will reward him when she is on the Iron Throne, though! It also occurs to me that she isn't going to like going home all that much. A lot has changed, and her mother will probably want her to be ladylike, and she will probably get married off before long.