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Blood dripped down his arm where Shaggydog had shredded the wool of his sleeve and the flesh beneath. Ofttimes the birds are lost, child, the maester had told him. My sister Lysa believes the Lannisters murdered her husband, Lord Arryn, the Hand of the King, Catelyn told them. Yet there it stood, immense and beautiful, the great horses framing the distant purple mountain beyond.

but he could die like one. The drawbridge was up and the portcullis down, but Catelyn saw lights burning in the gatehouse and spilling from the windows of the square towers beyond. Ser Donnel promised to send birds ahead to the Eyrie and the Gates of the Moon with the word of their coming. He did not seem to hear.