Editing Arya Stark (section)

===''The Winds of Winter''===
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Theon convinces Jeyne that for her own safety she should continue impersonating Arya. Stannis orders Ser [[Justin Massey]] to bring the girl to Castle Black.<ref>''[[The Winds of Winter]]'', [[Theon I (The Winds of Winter)|Theon I]]</ref>

Under the identity of "Mercedene" or "Mercy", Arya is now a [[mummer]] at a playhouse called [[the Gate]], owned by Izembaro. She is still experiencing wolf dreams, the latest with a tree watching her.<ref name=Mercy/>

When Ser [[Harys Swyft]] arrives in Braavos on a mission to negotiate with the [[Iron Bank of Braavos]] on behalf of King [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I Baratheon]], the mummers of the Gate perform the play ''[[The Bloody Hand]]'' in which Arya plays a [[maiden]], presumably [[Shae]] or Sansa, who is raped by [[Tyrion Lannister]], played by a dwarf named [[Bobono]].<ref name=Mercy/>

However, as the play is about to begin, Arya notices that one of Harys's guards is [[Rafford]], also called Raff the Sweetling, one of the [[Mountain's men]]. She seduces him and takes him to her room. She tires him out by running there, and thus she is able to stab him in his thigh, cutting his femoral artery and rendering him unable to walk. Raff pleads to have him carried to a healer, but Arya replies: "Think so?" and stabs him in the throat, just as Raff did to the disabled [[Lommy]]. Arya throws his corpse in a canal and heads back to the Gate before she is due to come on stage.<ref name=Mercy/>