She would need to remember so she could tell him, the next time she saw him. “The fault is mine, my lady.” He was very polite and attractive in a solemn way. “The bad kind,” said Arya, suddenly contrite. “What kind of lady throws crabapples at people?” “That hurt.” He felt the skin above his eye. Arya plucked a withered crabapple off a passing branch and whipped it at him, bouncing it off his thick bull head.

“Lords and ladies,” he proclaimed in a disgusted tone. the Lord of Starfall.”īehind them, Gendry groaned. “You have a House?” That was stupid he was a squire, of course he had a House.

“Wylla was my wetnurse,” he repeated solemnly. “You know her? Truly?” Is he making mock of me? “If you lie I’ll punch your face.” Not even her name.” Arya gave Ned a wary look. He never told you? She’s served us for years and years. My lady mother had no milk when I was little, so Wylla had to nurse me.” He used to muss my hair and call me ‘little sister.’” Arya missed Jon most of all. “Jon looks like me, even though he’s bastard-born. Jon wouldn’t care who I killed or whether I brushed my hair. “He’s with the Night’s Watch on the Wall.” Maybe I should go to the Wall instead of Riverrun. Their horses’ hooves made sucking sounds as they pulled free of the mud. died? she thought, as Ned’s voice trailed off into an awkward silence. “He’s promised to my aunt.” Ned looked uncomfortable. “Her friend Jeyne Poole fell in love with your Lord Beric.” “She told me.” It all seemed so long ago. “Were you at the tourney? I saw your sister there. I wanted to go up and speak with him, but I couldn’t think what to say.” Ned shivered beneath his cloak, a sodden length of pale purple. “My father was called Ned too,” she said.

She didn’t know if Weese and Chiswyck counted, or the ones who’d died on account of the weasel soup. After him there’d been that guard whose throat she cut at Harrenhal, and Ser Amory’s men at that holdfast by the lake. When we regrouped, Green Gergen helped pull his lordship back onto a horse.”Īrya was remembering the stableboy at King’s Landing. I lost count how many came over, I guess I’m just lucky they didn’t come over in a group or I’d have been overwhelmed. Lord Beric seemed dead but that didn’t stop them trying to come over and finish the job. When Lord Beric fell into the river, I dragged him up onto the bank so he wouldn’t drown and stood over him with my sword. “Yes.” He did not sound very proud of it. I killed a boy when I was eight, Arya almost said, but she thought she’d better not. “I never learned the lance, but I could beat you with a sword,” said Arya. “I was ten, but when I turned thirteen he raised me to squire.

“He took me for his page when he espoused my aunt.” He coughed. Starfall is the subject of the cover of the 2025 A Song of Ice and Fire Calendar.“How long have you been Lord Beric’s squire?” she asked, to take his mind from his misery. When Lord Eddard Stark returned Arthur's sword, the ancestral blade Dawn, to Starfall, Arthur's sister Ashara threw herself from the castle's Palestone Sword tower. In the aftermath of Robert's Rebellion, Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning, perished at the tower of joy. Prince Oberyn Martell and Princess Elia Martell visited Starfall on their way to Casterly Rock where their mother was to broker their marriage to the Lannister twins, Cersei and Jaime. Targaryen EraĪfter Ser Joffrey Dayne attacked Oldtown during the First Dornish War, Queen Visenya Targaryen burned Starfall with her dragon, Vhagar. The Daynes submitted to House Nymeros Martell during Nymeria's War. The Daynes grew in power to become the Kings of the Torrentine and one of the strongest houses of Dorne. History Older HistoryĪccording to legend, Starfall was built where the first Dayne found a magic stone after he followed the path of a shooting star. Northeast of Starfall is High Hermitage, the seat of a Dayne cadet branch. Starfall includes a tower called the Palestone Sword. The castle is located in the western Red Mountains on an island in the Torentine where it pours into the Summer Sea.

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