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[[Arya Stark|Arya]], [[Gendry]], [[Hot Pie]] and the wounded [[Lommy]] return the town the next night and find the town burned and everyone dead except the three lookouts in the tower. The poacher [[Kurz]], who was the only decent woodsman among them, dies from his wound and then [[Custjack]] and [[Tarber]] abandon the rest with much of the equipment. They find no one alive in any of the villages they pass until they come to this village where they see smoke from chimneys. Gendry wants to scount the village alone, but decides to take Arya, who is the quietest. Along the way Gendry reveals that he knows she is a girl and she reveals she is Arya of [[House Stark]]. Arya approaches the villages to see bodies hanging for a giblet and Lannister men. Then she sees that they have captured Gendry. She returns with Hot Pot only to be captured because of Hot Pot.
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On their way to scout a village, [[Gendry]] unmasks [[Arya Stark|Arya]] as a girl, forcing her to reveal her true identity. The village turns out to be occupied by Ser [[Gregor Clegane]] and his [[The Mountain's men|men]], and Gendry is captured. During a rescue attempt, [[Hot Pie]] panics, leading to Arya's capture as well. Later, [[Rafford|a spearman]] kills [[Lommy]] rather than carry him.
  
 
==Synopsis==
 
==Synopsis==
After their escape, [[Arya Stark|Arya]], [[Gendry]], [[Hot Pie]] and [[Lommy]] waited until the next night to steal back into the ruined village. Lommy was fearful did not want to return, but when they returned Ser [[Amory Lorch]] and his men have gone. Everyone in the village was dead, and wolves or dogs had been at the corpses. Arya refuses to leave until they find [[Yoren]]’s body—he man that was going to take her back to [[Winterfell]]—and bury him; there were too many bodies to bury everyone, including the bodies of the dead [[House Lannister|Lannisters]], but Arya insisted Yoren must have a grave. She wanted to cry but also to kick him, and wondered how many men he had taken down with four Lannisters around his corpse. The Lannisters had also tried to get to the lookout in the stone tower, but the Tower was inaccessible with the ladder pulled up and would not burn, so those inside were safe The poacher [[Kurz]] had taken an arrow in the shoulder pulling up the ladder, and he later died from the wound.
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From high in a tree, Arya can see a fishing village with some smoking chimneys. It is the first sign of life since they fled the [[Gods Eye town|holdfast]]; the [[House Lannister|Lannisters]] have burned or killed everything. The houses promise warmth and shelter, unless it is Ser [[Amory Lorch]] there. Arya watches for a long time, trying to be sure, but it is too far to see for certain.
  
The Poacher was the one in among them that knew the most about the woods; [[Tarber]] had tried to help him by packing mud and moss on the wound. With the loss of the poacher, they were left to find what they could to eat. They also had to help [[Lommy]] move because of the wound in his leg. Initially Gendry helped him limp on one leg but the wound got worse and they had to carry him in a litter. Eventually [[Custjack]] and Tarber abandoned them, taking all of Kurz’ possessions including his hunting bow and horn. Now they were mostly living on acorns and water, only Arya and [[Weasel]] had no problem eating the bugs; the worms were the worse.  
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Arya and the others waited until the next night to return to the burnt village. [[Hot Pie]] and [[Lommy]] were still afraid, but Lorch and his men were long gone. The holdfast was strewn with corpses from both sides, and scavengers had been at them. One look was enough for [[Gendry]], but Arya insisted they find [[Yoren]], telling herself he could not be dead. They found his body next to four Lannister men-at-arms, and Arya wondered how many men it took to bring the black brother down. There were too many bodies to bury everyone, but Arya insisted Yoren must have a grave, and as they dug part of her wanted to cry and part of her wanted to kick Yoren.
  
Arya would have loved a bath in the water of the [[Gods Eye]], but she dared not expose herself. She had finally thrown away her rotting shoes, and after blisters and cuts had healed; her soles had turned to leather.
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The only other survivors were [[Cutjack]], [[Kurz]], and [[Tarber]], who had been on look-out in the towerhouse. They came under attack as well, but the stone tower was inflammable and inaccessible with the ladder pulled up, so Lorch's men left them. When Kurz decided they would do better continuing north, Arya clung to the hope of still reaching [[Winterfell]], but Kurz took an arrow in the shoulder pulling up the towerhouse ladder and, despite Tarber treating it with mud and moss, the wound festered and killed him. Soon after, Tarber and Cutjack had taken the dead poacher's weapons and hunting horn when they abandoned them. Afterward, wanting no part of any roads, Arya and the others made their way up the muddy shore of the [[Gods Eye]], taking turns carrying Lommy on a makeshift litter, since the spear wound in his calf is now so bad he cannot walk.
  
Now Arya is high in a tree peering at a fishing village of Twenty-six thatch roofs and one slate and some smoking chimneys. This was the first sign of life; the Lannisters had burned and killed everything. These houses promised warmth and shelter.  She also spied swans in the lake and part of her wanted to be one, and part wanted to eat it. With the nimbleness of a [[Water Dancer]] she returns to the others on the ground to report. [[Hot Pie]] thought that they should go since where there are people there is food, sure that if they yielded they would not be killed. Gendry accuses Hot Pie of sounding like Lommy who still was telling them that if Yoren had surrendered things would be alright. Hot Pie immediately states that Yoren should have surrendered. Gendry tells them that knights and lordlings take each other captive, but don’t care about the lower classes. Hot Pie and Lommy start talking about looking for dead fish on the shore or cooking crow (Gendry tells them again no fires), and then Lommy states that if his leg was good he would hunt boar; Arya had seen her father hunt boar with a boar spear, horses and men. Gendry is meanwhile thinking, and finally states they will steal food that night, and that he will scout. Arya and Lommy both object saying that Arya should go since she is quieter, so Gendry states he and Arry with go. This raises concern from Hot Pie and Lommy about being left for the wolves they had been hearing. Lommy also wants them to find a potion for his leg. Gendry tells them that Lommy has his spear to protect them from the wolve, and they will return with a potion if they find one. He then walks off, wanting to get close to the village before dark.
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From her tree, Arya sees that the air over the village is full of crows, but thirty yards from shore three black swans glide serenely over the water, oblivious to the war. Part of Arya wants to be one of them, but the other part wants to eat one. She and the others have been living mostly on an awful-tasting acorn paste Kurz taught them to make, though Arya and [[Weasel]] (their new name for the crying girl) have also been eating bugs and worms. Arya even tried catching fish with her hands as [[Koss]] once did, but without success.
  
Arya catches up with the foot taller Gendry. She tells Gendry that they might find a maester and he replies that maesters are only in castles, and do not treat the likes of them—Arya is sure that Maester [[Luwin]] would have treated anyone. Gendry then says that Lommy is going the die and the sooner the better, in fact they should have left him—Loomy would have left one of them. He also complains about Weasel crying, and Arya tells him to leave her alone. Gendry continues with saying the Arya is the only one of the group that is useful even if she is a girl. Arya tries to object that she is a boy, but Gendry states that he is not stupid, and to prove him wrong she will have to pull out her cock. Arya agrees to tell Gendry about why [[Cersei Lannister|the queen]] wants her if he tells her why the queen wants him. He tells her he wishes he knew. Therefore Arya tells him she is Arya of [[House Stark]], and Gendry reponds that she is a high born lady, which she definitely does not now feel; nobody would know her. Gendry, realizing she is high born, is uncertain, and states calling her m’lady. Arya tells him that if he calls her that even Hot Pie will notice. When he calls her m’lady again, she slams into his chest and he falls, laughing. She then gives him a kick in the side which only makes him laugh louder. She leaves towards the village and Gendry hurries after.
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Beneath Arya's tree, Hot Pie barks like a dog to signal her, an old poacher's trick Kurz taught them. With the nimbleness of a [[water dancer]], Arya returns to the ground to report her findings. Hot Pie opines that they should go to the village and ask for food, convinced they will not be killed if they yield. Gendry accuses him of sounding like Lommy, who has talked of little else since they escaped from the holdfast. Lommy and Hot Pie insist Lorch would have left them alone if Yoren had yielded, but Gendry points out that knights and lordlings only take each other captive and do not care about the lower classes.  
  
As they close on the village the dead-man stink grows stronger. In the village they find a long gibbet with the dead hanging along it with crows and flies. Arya, remembering Fear cuts deeper than swords looked at each body. Beyond the gibbet stood two guards in mail and the standards of Lannister and Clegane in front of a low building. The two men turn to a shout from a third that arrives with Gendry in his helm. They shove Gendry through the heavy doors into the building. From the building Arya can hear sobs. Arya watches for hours as the armored men come go, as dinner is prepared and night falls, but she does not see an opportunity to free Gendry. Late at night she returns to Lommy and Hot Pie to apprise them of the situation. Hot Pie returns with Arya to attempt to free Gendry. As soon as they are close, a guard hears Hot Pie gasp when a crow lands on his back. The Guard booms out Who’s there, and Hot Pie immediately leaps to his feet and surrenders. Before Arya can do anything, they are surrounded, and her only sword slash is blocked by as steel arm. She takes several hard blows and her sword is wrenched away; the loss of the sword shames her for it was given to her by [[Jon Snow]] and [[Syrio Forel]] had taught her to use it.
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Hot Pie and Lommy start talking about searching for dead fish, cooking crows, and even hunting boars (which Arya knows they cannot do without boar spears, horses, and men) until Gendry proposes they steal food from the village after he scouts it out. Arya argues that she should go instead because she is stealthier, but Gendry only agrees that she can come with him. Hot Pie and Lommy worry about being left for the wolves, and Lommy whines that they should yield to whomever they find because he needs some potion for his wounded leg. Gendry reminds them that Lommy has a spear for the wolves and promises to bring back any leg potion they find, then dons his bull helm and walks off.
  
When she his yanked to her knees, she finds herself in front of the biggest man she has ever seen, and suddenly remembers the banner with the three dogs—Sansa had told her that it was the banner of the bother of [[Sandor Clegane]], [[Gregor Clegane]], bigger than [[Hodor]], the Mountain that Rides. The man tells them that they will lead them to the others, and walks off. As they walk back to where Lommy and Weasel are hiding, Hot Pie is telling the four guards that he will bake pies for them if they do not hurt him. When they arrive Lommy informs the guards that Weasel has run. Then a guard ask Lommy where they can find [[Beric Duondarrion]]. Lommy has never heard the name. One of the guards states that this lot knows no more than the cunts in the village. When they learn that Lommy cannot walk, a man casually drives a spear through his throat.  
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During their walk, Gendry stops and says he thinks Lommy is going to die. Arya is not surprised since she has felt Lommy's warm skin and smelled the stink off his leg. She suggests finding a [[maester]], but Gendry dismisses it as unlikely. He suggests they should abandon Lommy, since Lommy would do the same and he is sick of Lommy's talk of yielding, adding that Arya is the only one who's good for anything, even if she is a girl. Arya panics and insists she is not a girl, but Gendry insists he is not stupid and to prove him wrong she will have to pull out her cock. Desperate to escape the subject, Arya brings up the gold cloaks at the inn and says Gendry is also hiding something. Gendry insists he does not know why they wanted him and turns the question back on Arya, asking why she thought they were after her.
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Realizing her pretense is done, Arya decides she must kill Gendry or trust him and, after pleading that Lommy and Hot Pie cannot know, she admits she is Arya of [[House Stark]]. Gendry is so shocked by the revelation that Arya is a highborn lady that he becomes unsure how to act around her and begins calling her "m'lady" and begging her pardon for talking about cocks and for pissing in front of her. Unsure if he is mocking her, Arya orders him to stop it, since even Hot Pie will notice if he starts calling her that. When Gendry responds by calling her "m'lady" again, Arya slams into his chest and he falls down, laughing. Then she gives him a kick in the side (which only makes him laugh harder) and sets off for the village, leaving Gendry to hurry after.
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As they approach the village, they smell rotting flesh. Gendry decides to circle around to the west while Arya continues up the shore, slipping from bush to bush and stopping every few yards to listen. The smell gets worse as she gets closer and she begins to hear horses and men. Squirming through a gap in a bramble thicket on the edge of the village, Arya discovers a long gibbet full of corpses so decayed they hardly look like people. Arya forces herself to look at each one in turn, telling herself she is hard as a stone. Beyond the gibbet, two spearmen guard the doors of the slate-roofed warehouse by the water. Arya cannot make out the two limp banners nearby, but she knows the dead men must mean Lannisters.
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[[File:Gregor Clegane Nordheimer.jpg|thumb|280px|left|Ser Gregor Clegane and his men - by Nordheimer©]]
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The two guards turn toward a shout from a third man, who appears shoving along a prisoner Arya recognizes as Gendry by his bull helm. One of the guards snatches Gendry's helm and, after beating him around a little, they shove him through the heavy doors of the storehouse. From inside Arya hears sobbing and a loud shriek of pain. Then the wind flutters the banners and she makes out Lannister lion and three black dogs on a yellow field that she feels she should remember.
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Arya watches for hours as the armored men come and go, as dinner is prepared, and as night falls, but she does not see an opportunity to free Gendry. Late at night she returns to the others to insist Hot Pie help her free Gendry. Hot Pie insists they cannot fight twenty soldiers, but Arya argues they will only have to kill the two guards at the storehouse. Lommy suggests they should yield or just leave Gendry, but Arya points out they need his to help carry Lommy. When Arya insists she is going back to try, Hot Pie reluctantly agrees to come along.
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As they are crawling along under the gibbet, a crow lands on Hot Pie's back and the guards hear his gasp. Hot Pie immediately leaps up and shouts out that he yields. By the time Arya bounces up and draws [[Needle]], they are surrounded. She slashes at the nearest man, but he blocks her with a steel-clad arm and someone else knocks her to the ground. A third man wrenches Needle away and punches her with a armored fist when she tries to bite him. Disoriented, Arya lies hurting and shamed by the loss of Needle, which [[Jon Snow]] gave her and [[Syrio Forel]] taught her to use.
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When she is yanked to her knees, Arya finds herself facing the biggest man she has ever seen, and suddenly she remembers the banner with the three dogs: at the [[Hand's tourney]], Sansa told her it was the banner of [[Sandor Clegane|the Hound]]'s brother, Ser [[Gregor Clegane]], the Mountain that Rides, who is even bigger than [[Hodor]]. After Hot Pie yields some more and tells him about Lommy and Weasel, Ser Gregor orders them to lead his men there and walks off. As they walk back to where Lommy and Weasel are hiding, Hot Pie promises to make pies and tarts for the four soldiers if they do not hurt him.  
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When they arrive, Lommy immediately yields and explains that Weasel ran off when she heard them coming. The soldiers ask Lommy where they can find [[Beric Dondarrion]], but Lommy has never heard the name. One of the guards declares it a waste of time, since Arya's group do not know any more than the villagers. [[Rafford|A spearman]] drifts over to Lommy and asks if he can walk. When Lommy says they will have to carry him, the spearman replies "Think so?" and casually drives his spear through Lommy's soft throat.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 13:44, 19 February 2021

Arya V
A Clash of Kings chapter
AClashOfKings.jpg
POV Arya Stark
Place Village west of the Gods Eye
Page 212 UK HC (Other versions)
Chapter chronology (All)
Arya IV
Sansa II  ← Arya V →  Tyrion V

Arya VI

On their way to scout a village, Gendry unmasks Arya as a girl, forcing her to reveal her true identity. The village turns out to be occupied by Ser Gregor Clegane and his men, and Gendry is captured. During a rescue attempt, Hot Pie panics, leading to Arya's capture as well. Later, a spearman kills Lommy rather than carry him.

Synopsis

From high in a tree, Arya can see a fishing village with some smoking chimneys. It is the first sign of life since they fled the holdfast; the Lannisters have burned or killed everything. The houses promise warmth and shelter, unless it is Ser Amory Lorch there. Arya watches for a long time, trying to be sure, but it is too far to see for certain.

Arya and the others waited until the next night to return to the burnt village. Hot Pie and Lommy were still afraid, but Lorch and his men were long gone. The holdfast was strewn with corpses from both sides, and scavengers had been at them. One look was enough for Gendry, but Arya insisted they find Yoren, telling herself he could not be dead. They found his body next to four Lannister men-at-arms, and Arya wondered how many men it took to bring the black brother down. There were too many bodies to bury everyone, but Arya insisted Yoren must have a grave, and as they dug part of her wanted to cry and part of her wanted to kick Yoren.

The only other survivors were Cutjack, Kurz, and Tarber, who had been on look-out in the towerhouse. They came under attack as well, but the stone tower was inflammable and inaccessible with the ladder pulled up, so Lorch's men left them. When Kurz decided they would do better continuing north, Arya clung to the hope of still reaching Winterfell, but Kurz took an arrow in the shoulder pulling up the towerhouse ladder and, despite Tarber treating it with mud and moss, the wound festered and killed him. Soon after, Tarber and Cutjack had taken the dead poacher's weapons and hunting horn when they abandoned them. Afterward, wanting no part of any roads, Arya and the others made their way up the muddy shore of the Gods Eye, taking turns carrying Lommy on a makeshift litter, since the spear wound in his calf is now so bad he cannot walk.

From her tree, Arya sees that the air over the village is full of crows, but thirty yards from shore three black swans glide serenely over the water, oblivious to the war. Part of Arya wants to be one of them, but the other part wants to eat one. She and the others have been living mostly on an awful-tasting acorn paste Kurz taught them to make, though Arya and Weasel (their new name for the crying girl) have also been eating bugs and worms. Arya even tried catching fish with her hands as Koss once did, but without success.

Beneath Arya's tree, Hot Pie barks like a dog to signal her, an old poacher's trick Kurz taught them. With the nimbleness of a water dancer, Arya returns to the ground to report her findings. Hot Pie opines that they should go to the village and ask for food, convinced they will not be killed if they yield. Gendry accuses him of sounding like Lommy, who has talked of little else since they escaped from the holdfast. Lommy and Hot Pie insist Lorch would have left them alone if Yoren had yielded, but Gendry points out that knights and lordlings only take each other captive and do not care about the lower classes.

Hot Pie and Lommy start talking about searching for dead fish, cooking crows, and even hunting boars (which Arya knows they cannot do without boar spears, horses, and men) until Gendry proposes they steal food from the village after he scouts it out. Arya argues that she should go instead because she is stealthier, but Gendry only agrees that she can come with him. Hot Pie and Lommy worry about being left for the wolves, and Lommy whines that they should yield to whomever they find because he needs some potion for his wounded leg. Gendry reminds them that Lommy has a spear for the wolves and promises to bring back any leg potion they find, then dons his bull helm and walks off.

During their walk, Gendry stops and says he thinks Lommy is going to die. Arya is not surprised since she has felt Lommy's warm skin and smelled the stink off his leg. She suggests finding a maester, but Gendry dismisses it as unlikely. He suggests they should abandon Lommy, since Lommy would do the same and he is sick of Lommy's talk of yielding, adding that Arya is the only one who's good for anything, even if she is a girl. Arya panics and insists she is not a girl, but Gendry insists he is not stupid and to prove him wrong she will have to pull out her cock. Desperate to escape the subject, Arya brings up the gold cloaks at the inn and says Gendry is also hiding something. Gendry insists he does not know why they wanted him and turns the question back on Arya, asking why she thought they were after her.

Realizing her pretense is done, Arya decides she must kill Gendry or trust him and, after pleading that Lommy and Hot Pie cannot know, she admits she is Arya of House Stark. Gendry is so shocked by the revelation that Arya is a highborn lady that he becomes unsure how to act around her and begins calling her "m'lady" and begging her pardon for talking about cocks and for pissing in front of her. Unsure if he is mocking her, Arya orders him to stop it, since even Hot Pie will notice if he starts calling her that. When Gendry responds by calling her "m'lady" again, Arya slams into his chest and he falls down, laughing. Then she gives him a kick in the side (which only makes him laugh harder) and sets off for the village, leaving Gendry to hurry after.

As they approach the village, they smell rotting flesh. Gendry decides to circle around to the west while Arya continues up the shore, slipping from bush to bush and stopping every few yards to listen. The smell gets worse as she gets closer and she begins to hear horses and men. Squirming through a gap in a bramble thicket on the edge of the village, Arya discovers a long gibbet full of corpses so decayed they hardly look like people. Arya forces herself to look at each one in turn, telling herself she is hard as a stone. Beyond the gibbet, two spearmen guard the doors of the slate-roofed warehouse by the water. Arya cannot make out the two limp banners nearby, but she knows the dead men must mean Lannisters.

Ser Gregor Clegane and his men - by Nordheimer©

The two guards turn toward a shout from a third man, who appears shoving along a prisoner Arya recognizes as Gendry by his bull helm. One of the guards snatches Gendry's helm and, after beating him around a little, they shove him through the heavy doors of the storehouse. From inside Arya hears sobbing and a loud shriek of pain. Then the wind flutters the banners and she makes out Lannister lion and three black dogs on a yellow field that she feels she should remember.

Arya watches for hours as the armored men come and go, as dinner is prepared, and as night falls, but she does not see an opportunity to free Gendry. Late at night she returns to the others to insist Hot Pie help her free Gendry. Hot Pie insists they cannot fight twenty soldiers, but Arya argues they will only have to kill the two guards at the storehouse. Lommy suggests they should yield or just leave Gendry, but Arya points out they need his to help carry Lommy. When Arya insists she is going back to try, Hot Pie reluctantly agrees to come along.

As they are crawling along under the gibbet, a crow lands on Hot Pie's back and the guards hear his gasp. Hot Pie immediately leaps up and shouts out that he yields. By the time Arya bounces up and draws Needle, they are surrounded. She slashes at the nearest man, but he blocks her with a steel-clad arm and someone else knocks her to the ground. A third man wrenches Needle away and punches her with a armored fist when she tries to bite him. Disoriented, Arya lies hurting and shamed by the loss of Needle, which Jon Snow gave her and Syrio Forel taught her to use.

When she is yanked to her knees, Arya finds herself facing the biggest man she has ever seen, and suddenly she remembers the banner with the three dogs: at the Hand's tourney, Sansa told her it was the banner of the Hound's brother, Ser Gregor Clegane, the Mountain that Rides, who is even bigger than Hodor. After Hot Pie yields some more and tells him about Lommy and Weasel, Ser Gregor orders them to lead his men there and walks off. As they walk back to where Lommy and Weasel are hiding, Hot Pie promises to make pies and tarts for the four soldiers if they do not hurt him.

When they arrive, Lommy immediately yields and explains that Weasel ran off when she heard them coming. The soldiers ask Lommy where they can find Beric Dondarrion, but Lommy has never heard the name. One of the guards declares it a waste of time, since Arya's group do not know any more than the villagers. A spearman drifts over to Lommy and asks if he can walk. When Lommy says they will have to carry him, the spearman replies "Think so?" and casually drives his spear through Lommy's soft throat.

References and Notes