Chapter Fourteen - Arya 4 - A Clash of Kings | A Song of Ice and Fire

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Arya and her fellow recruits spend the night in an abandoned holdfast south of the God’s Eye. Tywin’s second favorite goon, Amory Lorch, and his gang arrive in the night and attack. Arya does all she can in battle, but eventually flees with Gendry and a couple of others, having paused to throw Jaqen H’ghar a lifeline. Simon and Mackelly worry for her future.

Chapter Review:
The Night’s Watch recruits are stymied by an uncrossable river. They head north to the point of difluence with the Gods Eye lake. They find an unharmed village, utterly abandoned. No boats or anything useful. Gendry suggests that they could build rafts to get across to Harrenhal. Hot Pie fears ghosts, but Arya Stark sees her salvation: Lady Whent and knights will be waiting and she can reveal her true identity.

Yoren wants to sleep on it, inside the small holdfast. Their sleep is disturbed by the arrival of a large mounted force that rides through the village setting fire to the homes. Amory Lorch verbally jousts with Yoren before setting his men to attack the terrified recruits.

Arya acquits herself honorably enough, but there’s only one winner between 300 hardened soldiers and 30 trembling recruits, regardless of the 10-foot high walls. She, Gendry, Hot Pie, an injured Lommy, and the crying girl use a tunnel from the burning stables to escape. Before she leaves, she tosses an axe to the three prisoners who would otherwise burn to death.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Arya Stark - Younger daughter of Ned and Catelyn Stark.
Yoren - Man of the Night’s Watch. He was in King’s Landing seeking recruits and supplies.
Gendry - Recruit to the Night’s Watch. Former armorer’s apprentice. Bastard son of King Robert Baratheon.
Hot Pie - Recruit of the Night’s Watch.
Lommy - Recruit of the Night’s Watch.
Jaqen H’ghar - uUnwilling recruit of the Night’s Watch, from the dungeons of King’s Landing.
Biter and Rorge - Jaqen H’ghar’s cellmates on the journey north from the King’s Landing dungeons.
Amory Lorch - Cruel Lannister knight. Implicated in the murder of Rhaegar Targaryen’s two children. Raiding the Riverlands with 300 men.
Beric Dondariron - Lord of Blackhaven. Sent by Ned Stark to arrest Gregor Clegane for his crimes in the Riverlands. Continues to harass the Lannister forces.

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