Editing A Clash of Kings-Chapter 47 (section)

==Synopsis==
[[Arya Stark|Arya]] and [[Hot Pie]] are eating tarts in the [[kitchens of Harrenhal]]. Arya tells her friend that she thinks they can escape, but Hot Pie prefers the stability of the castle over living in the woods.

The [[Brave Companions|Bloody Mummers]] return, this time with about a hundred [[northmen]] as prisoners, along with their lord commander, [[Robett Glover]], and [[Aenys Frey]]. [[Vargo Hoat]] claims that Lord [[Roose Bolton]] fled with his host after the battle. Ser [[Amory Lorch]] has the men imprisoned in a cell beneath the [[Widow's Tower]].

Arya tries to convince [[Gendry]] to help her free the northmen, but the apprentice smith is happy enough where he is and wants no part of it.

Arya goes to the [[godswood of Harrenhal]] and practices her swordsmanship with a hidden wooden sword made from a broom. When she decides to pray before the [[heart tree]], she is interrupted by [[Jaqen H'ghar]]. The [[Lorath]]i tells her he would have done with his promise, and asks her to name a third. He also knows her to be Arya Stark, and tells her that some people have many names. She asks him to help her free the northmen, but Jaqen reminds her that she has only one name left. When Arya asks if she could name anybody, even [[Joffrey Baratheon|the king]], Jaqen tells her, "Speak the name, and death will come. On the morrow, at the turn of the moon, a year from this day, it will come. A man does not fly…but one foot moves and then another and one day a man is there, and a king dies." Arya whispers "''Jaqen H'ghar''", and stuns the man. But Jaqen is unafraid, and a dagger appears in his hand, telling her she would lose her only friend. Arya says that a friend would help her, and Jaqen agrees to help her if she names another name. Jaqen tells her, "The hungry gods will feast on blood tonight, if a man would do this thing", but Arya is resolute.

Jaqen brings Arya along, and has her demand several kettles of hot soup from the cooks in the kitchens. The chief cook sends Arya to the buttery, as [[Pia]] is to bring butter and [[cheese]] to Vargo. 

The broth is still being prepared when Arya returns to the kitchens. Jaqen soon arrives with [[Rorge]] and [[Biter]]. Arya helps Jaqen carry one of the heavy kettles, Rorge carries one by himself, and Biter is able to carry two. When they reach the dungeons beneath the Widow's Tower, the three men splash the kettles against the guards. Boiling soup flies everywhere as the guards are dispatched, and when Rorge unlocks the door to the cells, Robett Glover thanks them and asks if they are from the Brave Companions. Arya is confused, but has no time to ask him what he meant when fighting breaks out in the great castle as the Bloody Mummers and the freed northmen attack the unsuspecting [[westermen]] as they eat or as they sleep. Jaqen wipes blood from his sword on Arya's shift, telling her this is her work.

Arya takes back Jaqen's name and asks if she still can name a third, but Jaqen responds that she has gotten far more than three deaths. As she watches, Jaqen tells her the debt is paid and that he must die, and his features change as he passes a hand over his face. Arya asks who he is and if she could learn to do the same, but Jaqen tells her she would need to go with him across the [[narrow sea]]. He leaves her with a coin, of great value in the right place, and tells her that if she ever needs to find him again, she should give the coin to any man from [[Braavos]], and say ''"[[valar morghulis]]"''. Jaqen, who claims his name is as dead as Arry, then disappears into the night.

Lord Roose Bolton arrives at evenfall the next day in the aftermath of the [[fall of Harrenhal]], and Vargo Hoat turns the castle over to him. The prisoners were all a ruse to begin with, and apparently Roose had bought the services of the [[Qohor]]ik sellsword. As Lord Bolton takes control of the castle, [[Shagwell]] grabs Arya and presents her to her brother [[Robb Stark|Robb's]] bannerman as the weasel who made the soup. Roose asks her name, and Arya tells him [[Nymeria (direwolf)|Nymeria]], or "Nan" for short. The [[Lord of the Dreadfort]] then asks if she is afraid of [[leech]]es, for he claims that a man must purge himself of bad blood. When Arya tells him she is not afraid, Roose names her his cupbearer.

The banners over the gatehouse are changed to the flayed man of the [[Dreadfort]] and the [[direwolf]] of the [[House Stark|Starks]]. Arya watches as the Bloody Mummers parade Ser Amory around naked, then feed him to a caged [[bear]], and she realizes the bear is all in black, "like [[Yoren]]".