There are outlaw corpses hanging everywhere. These are the bad outlaws who raided Saltpans and I am assuming they have been hung there by good outlaws led by Beric. "These are just the sort of fellows who are most improved by death," observes Ser Hyle.
Brienne and party arrive at the Inn at the crossroads, which is now a sort of orphanage. Septon Meribald provides food from his donkey for all the orphans. Brienne is planning to depart in some new direction with Pod before the others awake.
Brienne notices Gendry, now a follower of the Lord of Light and presumably Beric, who looks a lot like Renly and even more like Robert. She is about to tell him this when some of the bad outlaws turn up, including Biter and someone else Brienne recognises. She kills the leader but is set upon by Biter who overwhelms her and does her serious injury. During this fight I am wondering where Gendry has got to, with all his talk of being a knight. I forgot about Ser Hyle, who also turns up too late. It was an exciting fight, not least because you never know if the good guys will win.
But sadly Brienne is now added to the list of ambiguously probably about to die characters. And what is the deal with Biter's tongue?
Also what is it with inns? They seem pretty dangerous. Seemingly every time we visit an inn (usually the one at the crossroads or else the one where Lem took Arya) we learn that the previous innkeeper has been massacred, or else a fight of some sort breaks out. Who would be an innkeeper in Westeros? It seems even more dangerous than being a knight.
