Weasel
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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.
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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 have 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] The settlement comes under attack by Ser Amory Lorch and his band of westermen, and 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]
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.[6]
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
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.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 22, Arya II.