Editing Haunted forest (section)

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Mance's wilding host collapses after being defeated by Stannis and the Night's Watch. Those who are not captured at Castle Black flee throughout the regions [[beyond the Wall]],{{ref|ADWD|Prologue}}{{ref|ADWD|10}} but many free folk succumb to hunger, the cold, sickness, and [[wights]].{{ref|ADWD|Prologue}} [[Queen's men]] imprison "Mance", actually [[Rattleshirt]],{{ref|ADWD|31}} in a cage at Castle Black made from the forest's trees.{{ref|ADWD|10}}

Jon Snow, now Lord Commander, sometimes watches the forest from atop the Wall.{{ref|ADWD|7}} He sends three groups of rangers led by Ser [[Alliser Thorne]], [[Jack Bulwer|Black Jack Bulwer]], and [[Kedge Whiteye]] to scout north of the Wall;{{ref|ADWD|28}} Black Jack's group is killed by the [[Weeper]],{{ref|ADWD|31}} while nothing is known of the other two groups.

Jon leads recruits to swear their vows at the same [[weirwood grove]] where he swore his. Two of them, [[Jax]] and [[Leathers]], are wildlings who grew up in the forest. They find a small group of peaceful wildlings and the giant [[Wun Weg Wun Dar Wun]] at the grove.{{ref|ADWD|35}}

[[Val]] volunteers to search the forest for [[Tormund]],{{ref|ADWD|39}} and she eventually brings Tormund and his followers back to Castle Black.{{ref|ADWD|53}}{{ref|ADWD|58}} Tormund is to lead the Night's Watch in a ranging to rescue [[Cotter Pyke]] and the wildlings at [[Hardhome]]. Before they depart, however, Jon is attacked in the [[mutiny at Castle Black]].{{ref|ADWD|69}}

[[Bran Stark]] travels with his companions toward the [[cave of the three-eyed crow]], and he observes the stillness of the snowy forest. While Bran shelters in the longhall of an abandoned village, Coldhands kills the [[mutiny at Craster's Keep|mutineers]] from [[Craster's Keep]].{{ref|ADWD|4}} The party eventually arrives at the hillside cave, a cleft between weirwoods. Wights attack them as they climb, but they are saved by [[Leaf]].{{ref|ADWD|13}} While Bran learns from the [[three-eyed crow]], [[Jojen Reed]] sometimes spends hours looking out over the forest from the cave's mouth.{{ref|ADWD|34}} [[Summer]] finds no living game during his hunts.{{ref|ADWD|34}} As a [[skinchanger]], Bran enters a [[raven]] and flies over the hill.{{ref|ADWD|34}}