Arya Stark - Game of Thrones - Barways

[mm_dyna]

Winter is Coming.

Those are the words of her House.

Not until now has she realized how important those words really are. There's the oncoming danger and enemies wishing them ill, like her father said. And the need to protect each other.

Even Sansa.

Even if her big sister was horrible sometimes.

Still, it's nothing to get too worried about.

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[likeaneedle]

Arya knows that voice.

She's about to blurt out, 'You're the Imp!', but it seems her septa's lessons in manners have finally paid off - at least when it counts.

Mostly.

Instead, she stares at him and says, "I thought you were supposed to be in the North."

She remembers him not being one of the party traveling to King's Landing.

[likeaneedle]

"You're helping Bran?"

She can't help but feel at least some warmth towards the Queen's brother for doing something like that.

"And - and how is Jon?"

[likeaneedle]

Arya wishes she could visit the Night's Watch. Or maybe Jon could come to King's Landing. Either way, she's glad to hear he's all right.

She doesn't say any of this aloud.

"Thank you for helping Bran, anyway," she says.

[likeaneedle]

It is a statement. Arya doesn't even feel like she has to respond to it, because it's a fact of life.

As to the next, she nods.

"I know that," she says a little fiercely. Though it may not (quite) occur to her that knowing is a little different from knowing. "But my uncle Benjen visited us. I don't see why Jon couldn't later."