Editing A Clash of Kings-Chapter 28 (section)

==Synopsis==
[[Meera Reed|Meera]], armed with a three pronged frog spear and a net, is facing [[Summer]] in the [[godswood of Winterfell]]. Summer charges past the spear, but is entangled in the net as he slams into her. [[Bran Stark|Bran]] tells her that she loses, but [[Jojen Reed|Jojen]], whom [[Old Nan]] calls "little grandfather" because he is so somber, points out that Summer is entangled in the net. After disentangling the wolf, and Bran calling to him, she asks if Summer ever grows angry. Bran tells her not with him, and he has never drawn blood. Meera is still worried, but Bran assures her that he would not have drawn her blood; he knows and likes her. Bran thinks about how Meera is so like his sister [[Arya Stark|Arya]], and tells them that he wishes they were their wards instead of [[Walder Frey (son of Jammos)|Big Walder]] and [[Walder Frey (son of Merrett)|Little Walder]]. They have stayed after all the others have gone, and have become his constant companions. Bran tells Meera he has never heard of anyone fighting with a net, and asks if their master-at-arms taught her. She tells him her father taught her, and they have no [[knight]]s or [[raven]]s at [[Greywater Watch]]; the island moves so neither ravens nor enemies can find it. When Bran asks if he would be welcome at Greywater Watch after the hostilities end, they assure him that [[Howland Reed|their lord father]] would welcome him anytime, and that leaving [[Winterfell]] sooner rather than later would be good for him.

It is revealed that the [[Ramsay Snow|Bastard of Bolton]] has forcibly taken Lady [[Donella Hornwood|Hornwood]] as his wife after the [[harvest feast (299)|harvest feast]], that Lord [[Wyman Manderly|Manderly]] took her castle to protect it, and Ser [[Rodrik Cassel|Rodrik]] has gone east to settle the uprising and see that justice is done. Bran could ask Rodrik about visiting the Reeds when he returns.

Meera reveals that Jojen has the [[greensight]]; he has dreams of things that have not happened but sometimes do. Jojen corrects this by saying they always do. Bran asks to hear about the dreams, and is told that Jojen will, but only if Bran tells them about his own dreams. Bran denies he has dreams, saying that Maester [[Luwin]] gives him sleeping draughts, which he admits help only sometimes. Meera tells him that everyone in the castle hears him scream when he sleeps. Bran does not tell, but is interested in what dreams Jojen has had. Jojen thinks that Bran is the winged wolf bound to earth by chains. He also states that a crow is trying to peck through the chains, but his beak can only chip them. When asked if the crow has three eyes, Jojen nods. 

The [[three-eyed crow]] first came to Jojen when he almost died of [[greywater fever]], and to Bran after he fell. It told him he had to fly, but when Bran woke, he was broken and could not fly. After hearing this, Jojen is sure that Bran is the winged wolf, and they tell Bran that the three-eyed crow is not in Greywater Watch, but north, [[beyond the Wall]]. When their father heard Jojen's dream, he sent them to Winterfell. When Bran asks how he will break the chains he is told to open his eye, not the two that are opened, but the third one; when he opens his third eye he will be able to see south to the [[Summer Sea]] and north beyond the Wall.

Bran decides that he is tired of talking of crows, and wants to talk about something else, and then asks about [[lizard-lion]]s. However, Jojen keeps asking Bran about his dream, whether he has dreamed he was Summer, and then reveals that when he touched Summer the night of the harvest feast he felt Bran in Summer, and that he felt Bran fall. He then asks if falling scares Bran; Bran thinks of [[Jaime Lannister|the golden man]], and that he scares him. He has not been able to tell Ser Rodrik or Maester Luwin, so cannot tell the Reeds either. Jojen continues by asking if he falls every night, and there is a low rumbling growl from Summer. Meera puts herself between Summer and her brother and asks Bran to keep the wolf back. Bran claims that Jojen is making Summer angry, but Meera responds that it is him that Jojen is making angry, his fear. She tells Bran that he and Summer are part of each other.

[[Shaggydog]] arrives. The direwolf lunges and Meera tells Bran to call them off, but he does not know how, and Jojen tells Bran that Summer is reacting to his anger. Meera tells her brother to climb the tree. Jojen responds that it is not his day to die, but complies, and Meera follows.

Bran has been unable to call off the wolves, but remembers he is not alone and calls to [[Hodor]]. When Hodor appears, Bran tells him to chase the wolves away, which he gleefully does. When Jojen returns to the ground he never takes his eyes off Summer as he tells Bran that they will talk again. Bran only thinks that it was the wolves, not him, and tells Hodor to bring him to Maester Luwin.

When Bran is with Maester Luwin in [[Maester Luwin's turret|his turret]], he tells him that Meera said her brother has the greensight. Luwin explains that their wise men call such people [[greenseer]]s. He then tells Bran that nobody truly knows what it is, but that the [[First Men]] thought the greenseers could see through the eyes of the [[weirwood]]s, which is why the men cut down the trees, and that they have control over animals and fish. When asked, Bran tells the maester that Jojen only claims to have dreams that sometimes come true. The maester tells Bran that everyone has dreams that come true, like when he and Rickon dreamed [[Eddard Stark|their father]] was in the [[crypts of Winterfell]] before they knew he was dead. He then asks Bran whether he remembers the meaning of the metals of a maester's chain: black [[iron]] for [[raven]]ry, [[silver]] for healing, [[gold]] for sums. Luwin pulls his chain around his neck to reveal a link made of [[Valyrian steel]] and tells Bran that it signifies the study of the higher mysteries, [[magic]]; this is a study of small use that few maesters trouble with. He goes on to say that magic may have once been a mighty force but no longer: [[Valyria]] was its last ember, and [[dragon]]s, the [[children of the forest|children]], and [[giants]] are no more. Jojen does not have the greensight since no living man has that power.

Bran tells Meera what Luwin said when she comes to him at dusk, and that Summer should not have tried to hurt Jojen, but Jojen should not have made the comments about his dreams; the crow lied, and so did Jojen that Bran could fly. Meera suggests that the maester may be wrong, but Bran replies that he is not and that his father depended on him. She leaves him with another of Jojen's dreams, that one day soon Maester Luwin will serve him a king's cut off the roast at a great feast, but the portion he gives to the Walders will be grey and dead, yet they will like their meal better than he.

That night Bran is almost afraid to sit at supper, but everyone is served the same, and there is nothing wrong with the food served the Walders. Bran is relieved: nothing bad is coming to Winterfell, but he is disappointed also—so long as there is magic anything can happen. He will never walk, fly or be a knight.