A Clash of Kings-Chapter 30

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Arya VII
A Clash of Kings chapter
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POV Arya
Page 334 UK HC (Other versions)
Chapter chronology (All)
Arya VI
Tyrion VII  ← Arya VII →  Catelyn III

Arya VIII

Synopsis

Arya wonders what King Harren Hoare had meant to name the five towers of Harrenhal, but they were now known as the Tower of Dread, the Widow's Tower, the Wailing Tower, the Tower of Ghosts, and Kingspyre Tower. Hot Pie was assigned to the kitchens, and Gendry to the forge, but Arya worked for the understeward running chores. Arya hates Weese and adds him to her list of names. She overhears a serving girl of Lord Tywin’s maester talk of a letter that the Lord ordered burnt declaring that Joffrey was not King Robert’s true son, and that Lord Tywin commanded that such filth should not be spread. Arya later sees the Bloody Mummers enter Harrenhal for the first time, and notes their odd dress and mounts, and their slobbering leader Vargo Hoat. Arya learns that Roose Bolton may attempt to cross the Ruby Ford of the Trident, and that her brother’s army was nearby at Riverrun. She also knows of captives from Lord Bolton’s host, but doesn’t know any of them save Lord Medger Cerwyn, who dies before Arya can speak to him. Two Freys came to ransom their three brothers and bastard brother, but no one came for the other captives.

Arya later hears that Lord Tywin sent Ser Gregor and Vargo Hoat to destroy Roose Bolton’s host. Eventually, Ser Amory Lorch arrives at Harrenhal, and amongst his men, Arya spots Rorge, Biter and Jaqen H'ghar. That night as Arya is asleep, Jaqen comes to her, and promises her three lives in exchange for the three the Red God lost when Arya saved them from the fire. Jaqen tells her, "Say the names, and a man will do the rest." Arya is unsure if she can trust Jaqen, but one night she hears one of Ser Gregor’s men, Chiswyck, tell the others a horrifying tale of gang rape of a young tavern girl at the hands of Ser Gregor and his men, and they all laugh at the story. Arya then whispers Chiswyck’s name to Jaqen the next night at dinner, and three days later she learns that Chiswyck fell from a tower and broke his neck, and some of the servants believe it was a ghost. But Arya knows she is the ghost in Harrenhal, and she scratches one name off her list.

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