A Storm of Swords-Epilogue

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Epilogue
A Storm of Swords chapter
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POV Merrett Frey
Page 915 UK HC (Other versions)
Chapter chronology (All)
Sansa VII  ← Epilogue →  Prologue

Synopsis

Merrett Frey is approaching the ruins of Oldstones with the ransom for his half-brother's (Stevron Frey's) grandson Petyr Pimple. He is considering all the ill luck throughout his life, starting with his captivity in the Kingswood as a squire, and how a pox he caught before the battle against the Kingswood Brotherhood left him unable to reach knighthood. His father had always mocked him as "Merrett Muttonhead", and all he was good for during the Red Wedding was to drink the Greatjon under the table.

Merrett recollects how his father had ordered the massacre of the Starks at Edmure Tully’s wedding, but it had been Lame Lothar and Roose Bolton who had masterminded the whole affair. He considers how things at the Twins will turn even worse when his father dies, as Ryman stands to inherit, and his sons Edwyn and Black Walder after him. Merrett felt that if he could accomplish this task, maybe his luck would change for the better, considering that Petyr was Ser Ryman’s son. However, he failed at everything in his life, including his role in keeping the Greatjon too drunk to fight. The man had killed or maimed four men, and it took eight to finally get him in chains.

When he reaches the site of King Tristifer’s sepulcher, he finds the outlaws who had captured Petyr. They surround him and take the gold he carried for the ransom. Merrett demands to see Beric Dondarrion, but Lem and Tom inform him that the Lightning Lord was needed elsewhere. They lead him to the tree from which Petyr Pimple hung, and then Lem ties a noose around Merrett’s neck. Sick with fear after they had lied about the ransom and now meant to hang him, Merrett pleads that he had nothing to do with the Red Wedding, and that they have no witness. However, Tom Sevenstrings steps aside to reveal a woman with grey skin and a hideous scar across her neck, a woman Merrett knew to be dead, having seen his brothers slit her throat and dump her naked body in the river. Her eyes are terrible to behold: they saw him, and they hated. Lem tells him that she can’t speak, but she nods when Lem asks if Merrett were involved. Merrett opened his mouth to plead, but the noose choked off his words…

References and Notes

  • The synopsis was copied from Aol member vbkorik27 previously at[1]