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| Alias | The crying girl[1] |
| Culture | Rivermen |
| Born | 296 AC or 297 AC[2] |
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Weasel, also known as the crying girl,[3][1] is a girl from the riverlands found by Yoren on his march north from King's Landing. Her real name is unknown.
Appearance and Character
No older than two,[3] Weasel is a young child with matted hair.[4] Lommy Greenhands gives her the name because he thinks she looks like the animal.[4]
Weasel often cries, and she never speaks a word after she is rescued. She is stubborn and resilient, but has a bad habit of eating mud.[4]
Recent Events
A Clash of Kings
While Yoren and his band of Night's Watch recruits travel north from King's Landing, they come across a village and holdfast which has been raided during the War of the Five Kings. Yoren, Murch, and Cutjack investigate the ruins and emerge with a little girl and a one-armed woman who dies soon after.[3] Arya Stark hopes that Shella Whent, Lady of Harrenhal, might be able to care for the child.[1]
At an unnamed Gods Eye town, the girl eagerly eats goose given to her by Hot Pie.[1] When the settlement comes under attack by Ser Amory Lorch and his band of westermen, Arya and Gendry help the traumatized girl through a secret tunnel to escape the fight at the holdfast.[1]
The crying girl stops whimpering, so Lommy Greenhands starts calling her Weasel because of her appearance.[4] The girl is unafraid of eating bugs, and she kicks Hot Pie.[4] When the youths are discovered by the Mountain's men, Weasel hears the soldiers coming and runs off into the woods. She is not found again.[4]
While imprisoned and forced to serve at Harrenhal by House Lannister, Arya takes the name "Weasel" for her own.[5] Under this name, Arya initiates and, along with Jaqen H'ghar, Rorge, and Biter, takes part in a plot in which they splash boiling soup onto Amory Lorch's men during the fall of Harrenhal to Lord Roose Bolton. Afterwards, Shagwell, the fool of the Brave Companions, grabs Arya and presents her to Roose as the weasel who made the soup, referring to it as "weasel soup".[6] As a reward for their actions with the "weasel soup", the cook at Harrenhal is spared, while Arya is elevated from a servant drudge to Roose's cupbearer.[6][7]
A Storm of Swords
When Edric Dayne tells Arya that he has never killed anyone, Arya thinks about the guard, the stableboy, and the men who died because of her "weasel soup".[8]
A Feast for Crows
At the House of Black and White in Braavos, the big eyes and hollow face of the waif remind Arya of Weasel.[9]
The Inn at the crossroads, where Gendry now works as a smith, has become a refuge for orphan children, including Ben, Pate, Jon Penny, Tansy, Wat, and Will;[10] Weasel, an orphan, might be among them, under the protection of Gendry.
Quotes
The girl was no older than two and she cried all the time, a whimpery sound, like something was caught in her throat. Either she couldn't talk yet or she had forgotten how.[3]
—thoughts of Arya Stark
Gendry: Lommy's no use to anyone. That crying girl's no use either.
Arya: You leave Weasel alone, she's just scared and hungry is all.[4]—Gendry and Arya Stark
And Arya thought, Run, Weasel, run as far as you can, run and hide and never come back.[4]
—thoughts of Arya Stark
Bloody Mummer: What did you die of?
Shagwell: Hot weasel soup.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 14, Arya IV.
- ↑ See the Weasel calculation.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 9, Arya III.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 19, Arya V.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 26, Arya VI.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 47, Arya IX.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 64, Arya X.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 43, Arya VIII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 22, Arya II.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 37, Brienne VII.