A Game of Thrones-Chapter 16

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Eddard III
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Sansa I  ← Eddard III →  Bran III

Eddard IV

Arya has been found and dragged before the King who has both Arya and Joffrey tell their very different stories, and then Sansa states everything happened so fast she does not remember. The king orders Eddard to discipline his daughter. The queen is not satisfied, and demands the death of the direwolf. Since Nymeria has fled, Lady is sentenced to death. Sandor Clegane finds and murders the butcher’s boy.

Synopsis

After four days, Vayon Poole comes to Lord Eddard with the news that Arya has been found unharmed. Eddard is relieved that it was Jory Cassel who found her, not the queen’s men. Unfortunately, the Lannister guards at the gate and informed the queen who had her brought directly before the king and queen. Eddard heads for the audience chamber himself, asking for Sansa to be brought as well.

Eddard rushes to the audience chamber in a local castle which provided chambers for their unwanted guests of the King’s party. He arrives to find way more people in the chamber than he would have liked. If he could have gotten the king alone he could have settled the matter amicably. He goes to Arya's side in the center of the room with Jory. She profusely apologizes as she cries. After reassuring her, he notes that the crowd is not the best for the Starks, the only conciliation being that Jaime Lannister and Sandor Clegane were both missing. He turns angrily to the king, demanding why Arya was not brought to him at once. Cersei bridles at his tone, but Robert apologizes, saying he just wanted to get the business over with quickly. Eddard asks what business this is and the queen answers that justice to be done for Arya, and the butcher boy beating Joffrey with clubs and the wolf tried to tear of his arm. Joffrey replies that this is correct, and Arya calls Joffrey a liar. The king wants to hear Arya’s story first, then will hear Joffrey. After Arya’s story, Remly starts snikering, and is ordered out of the chamber by the king. Before he leaves he asks how a 9 year old girl the size of a wet rat managed to disarm him with a broom handle and throw it in the lake. Then Joffrey presents a very different story. The king is exasperated because the stories are so different. Eddard then tells the king that there was another at the scene, and tells Sansa to tell her story. She says she that everything happened so fast that she doesn't remember. This infuriates Arya who immediately lunges at Sansa, and it is Jory that pulls her off Sansa. Cersei uses this as an example of how wild Arya is, and tells Robert she wants Arya punished. This further exasperates the king who points out she is only a girl. The king tells Eddard to discipline his daughter and he would discipline his son. The queen then asks about punishing the wolf. Robert was not happy about this being brought up, having forgotten about the wolf. He is relieved when he is told that there was no sign found of the direwolf. The queen immediately offers 100 golden dragons for the skin. Robert tells her she can buy the pelt with Lannister gold and Cersei responded that she thought the king she married would of laid a skin across her bed before the sun went down. The king points out that there was no wolf, and Cersei responds that they have a wolf. Eddard tries to get the king to change his mind, but he tells Eddard that direwolves are dangerous to get the girl a dog, she would be happier. Sansa finally realizes that they are talking about Lady. With Sansa crying in his lap, he begs the king again. When the king refuses, Eddard asks him to do it himself, and the king leaves. Eddard refuses to let Ilyn Payne do the task, and states he will. Cersei is suspicious and asks why. Eddard replies that the wolf is from the north and deserves better than a butcher.

With his daughter’s cries wailing in his ears, Eddard goes to Lady. He sits beside her considering the names that his children had chosen, and considering the wolf, believes his daughter had chosen well. He looks into her eyes and ruffles her fur. Jory brings him Ice, and when it is over commands that 4 men take her to the north to be buried at Winterfell, answering Jory’s question on why all that way with the answer that the Lannister woman never have this skin.

He is returning to the tower when Sandor and his riders came back from the hunt. Sandor states that they didn't find Arya, but they found her pet. He drops a corpse at Eddard's feet, which turns out to be not Nymeria, but Mycah. He had been cut down from above. Eddard states Sandor cut him down from behind, and Sandor responds that he ran.

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