The protagonist, a hunter of escaped males, finally ends up in their settlement and falls for the leader. Jaime protests that they don’t have sufficient manpower to defeat the Dothraki, much much less the help of the opposite noble houses, however Cersei counters that she’s obtained a new mortgage from the Iron Bank and employed the twenty thousand men, horses and elephants of the Golden Company. As Jon and Daenerys finally act on their mutual attraction, Bran notes that Rhaegar and Lyanna’s marriage implies that Jon, because the trueborn son of Lyanna and Rhaegar, is the true heir to the Iron Throne. Absence of Evidence: Daenerys brings her dragons to the meeting, but since she’s down to 2, Cersei instantly notices and deduces that one thing will need to have occurred to the third, since Daenerys introduced the entire relaxation of her army as a present of strength and would have introduced all three if she may.
When Jaime snarks that maybe the third was guarding the Targaryen fleet, Cersei correctly points out that Dany introduced all of the Unsullied and Dothraki inside sight of King’s Landing as a show of energy; she by no means would have introduced solely two dragons if she nonetheless had three. For it to be Littlefinger in the present raises the logistical question of how Baelish got word of Bran’s crippling, made the choice to have him assassinated, and by some means bought blade and/or assassin from King’s Landing to Winterfell before King Robert had managed to travel two-thirds of that distance (and, for that matter, earlier than Petyr himself had even appeared on the present). Arya asks if Sansa is alright, and she answers that she thinks Littlefinger did love her in his own approach. Abhorrent Admirer: Invoked. Sansa speculates that Littlefinger definitely had something resembling love for her, but it was too twisted for him to do something healthy or virtuous about it. Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole:- Within the books, Littlefinger is just not the person who employed Bran’s assassin (see “Pragmatic Adaptation” below).
Jaime challenges her to present the command, and Cersei nods to Gregor, who attracts his sword; then Jaime declares that he does not believe she’ll do it and stalks out of the room unchallenged. Jaime snarks that the Golden Company may be the most feared mercenary group in Essos, but they are in Essos, inflicting Cersei to give him a pitying look and ask if he actually thought Euron would surrender the chance to marry her; nobody walks away from her- Euron has taken the Iron Fleet to ferry the Golden Company to Westeros. Jaime is insulted that she organized this with out telling him, but Cersei factors out that he met with Tyrion without telling her, and accuses him of promoting the pursuits of Dany and Jon above the Iron Throne’s. Sam goes as much as Bran’s room, saying he wasn’t certain Bran would remember him, but Bran creeps him out a little when he says he remembers all the things. Back at Winterfell, Sam, Gilly and Little Sam have finally arrived from Oldtown. Bran says that Jon is returning to Winterfell at that second, with Dany accompanying him; when Sam nervously asks if Bran noticed this in a imaginative and prescient, Bran holds up a raven scroll.
Arya assures her she did the best thing; when Sansa factors out that Arya killed him, Arya rightly notes that she’s simply an executioner, Sansa passed the sentence, she’s the Lady of Winterfell. Bran talks about how Sam helped him, Meera, Jojen, Hodor and Summer go beyond The Wall and tells Sam he’s an excellent man, which Sam says he is not sure he’s. Arya tells Sansa that is the nicest thing she’s ever stated to her, causing Sansa to grin and say it will not change into a habit, teasing her little sister by saying she’s still “strange and annoying.” Arya recites Ned’s warning that, “In winter, we must protect ourselves. Look after each other,” which Sansa completes with the second line, “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, however the pack survives.” Arya says that she misses him, and Sansa replies that she does as well as they look toward the North.