JON SNOW APPRECIATION MONTH 2022 Day 14: Arya Stark

JON SNOW APPRECIATION MONTH 2022   ↳  Day 14: Arya Stark

She still had one brother left. Jon will want me, even if no one else does. He’ll call me “little sister” and muss my hair.

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And Arya… he missed her even more than Robb, skinny little thing that she was, all scraped knees and tangled hair and torn clothes, so fierce and willful. Arya never seemed to fit, no more than he had… yet she could always make Jon smile. He would give anything to be with her now, to muss up her hair once more and watch her make a face, to hear her finish a sentence with him.

Brandon was fostered at Barrowton with old Lord Dustin, the father of the one I’d later wed, but he spent most of his time riding the Rills. He loved to ride. His little sister took after him in that. A pair of centaurs, those two.

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“You ride like a northman, milady,“ Harwin said when he’d drawn them to a halt. “Your aunt was the same. Lady Lyanna.”

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Horses… the boy was mad for horses, Lady Dustin will tell you. Not even Lord Rickard’s daughter could outrace him, and that one was half a horse herself.

“M’lady,” Ser Lothor said, “you’d best know. Mya didn’t come up alone. Lady Myranda’s with her.”

The Vale trio for @reaperofpyke

theon appreciation month 2022 day one • favourite quotes, moments, chapters or arcs

Favourite Theon arc: rescuing Jeyne Poole

The crossbow snapped. A bolt passed within a foot of him, shattering the crust of frozen snow that had plugged the closest crenel. Of Abel, Rowan, Squirrel, and the others there was no sign. He and the girl were alone. If they take us alive, they will deliver us to Ramsay.

Theon grabbed Jeyne about the waist and jumped.

That morning he called it first. “I’m Lord of Winterfell!” he cried, as he had a hundred times before. Only this time, this time, Robb had answered, “You can’t be Lord of Winterfell, you’re bastard-born. My lady mother says you can’t ever be the Lord of Winterfell.”

— Jon XII, A Storm of Swords

I seek passage to Meereen for myself and two servants.