The Eyrie is being closed for the winter. Suddenly its impregnability does not seem like such a guarantee of safety. In the winter, and presumably during even a small siege, nothing can be brought up to it so its occupants will starve. Sansa has to coax the awful Robert out of bed. I want to hate him but he seemed to get more sympathetic towards the end of the chapter. I admire Sansa's patience, nonetheless.
On the way down the mountain she meets the amusing but dangerous Lady "call me Randa" Myranda Royce. Between gossip she shares the news that Riverrun (held by Sansa's uncle) has yielded but Dragonstone and Storm's End (Stannis') still hold. We know better about Dragonstone, but I am not sure whether Jaime really did win Riverrun first or whether the news just arrives to places like the Eyrie in the wrong order. Myranda also tells that Jon Snow is now commander of the Night's Watch. Sansa wishes she could see him but knows it will never be, so certain is she that she will be Alayne forever.
Myranda apparently had an affair with Marillion, and is a bit sorry about it since he turned out to be murderer. Except that Sansa knows he was not, and this is exactly the sort of secret that I suspect Myranda will be very good at extracting. Once again Sansa seems naive in comparison.
Petyr turns up with news that Sansa will be betrothed to Harrold "Harry the Heir" Hardyng, described by Myranda as Lady Waynwood's ward. Myranda wanted to marry him but Waynwood wouldn't have it, but now she thinks herself lucky considering he already has a bastard, and Petyr knows of a second bastard. It turns out that, via some complicated family connections, he is the heir of Little Lord Robert, who will probably die at some point. Petyr is hoping for Tyrion to die, Sansa to marry Harry, then reveal herself as Sansa and claim both the Eyrie and Winterfell. Quite where this leaves Petyr himself I'm not entirely sure, except that I am sure he would do well out of it somehow. One slight problem is that Cersei's inevitable downfall is happening faster than Petyr had planned, so he has to work fast.
