At first I was, like, "yay! Brienne is still alive!" But now I'm all, "hey, GRRM, stop trying to kill Brienne all the time!" This is the second Brienne chapter in a row where she's left ambiguously-probably dead at the end.
It turns out Biter's sword-like tongue was actually a sword, or at least Gendry's spear, which is, duh, obvious now. And it's good that Gendry finally joined the fight. But now Brienne has been captured by Beric's men, and the trouble with that is they are really Catelyn's men, since it seems like Beric probably died bringing her back to life. He ought to have known, I think Thoros was warning him about his draining life-force last time we read about him, right before Arya escaped into the clutches of the Hound.
Oh, Lem Lemoncloak is now the new Hound, since he has the helmet now, having taken it from Rorge, who was wearing it when he massacred Saltpans. And of course Biter was at Saltpans; that should have been obvious from the descriptions of some of the atrocities there.
Anyway Brienne's reunion with Catelyn was not the happy affair I might have hoped for. It turns out Catelyn thinks Brienne is now on the Lannister's side, and I can see how it looks like that. She's talking about Jaime in her sleep, has his sword and his letter and Tyrion's squire, and Catelyn is supposed to believe Jaime really does have Sansa's best interests at heart? Even I am doubting that, now.
But they can't all just be hung, can they? Brienne screams a word. What word could save her?
