
Arya catches her sister pilfering through her personal effects. Brienne offers to leave her squire Podrick Payne, whose swordsmanship has improved, but Sansa insists that she can take care of herself.įollowing the events of the Wight Hunt, Sansa enters Arya's quarters and opens a leather case containing several "faces", including the literally late Walder Frey's face. Sansa insists that her guards and men are loyal to her but Brienne warns that Petyr might be bribing them behind her back. Brienne warns that it is too dangerous for her to leave Sansa alone at Winterfell with Petyr. Instead, Sansa decides to send Brienne as her representative since she could reason with Jaime Lannister. Sansa meets with Brienne, who advises her not to leave Winterfell. The following morning, Maester Wolkan informs Sansa that they have received a letter from Queen Cersei. Sansa sends Brienne south to Parley with Cersei. Trusting Baelish, Sansa accepts his advice. Petyr suggests that Sansa talk to Brienne of Tarth because she has sworn to protect both of Lady Catelyn Stark's daughters from harm's way. Sansa confides in Petyr about her strained relations with Arya. She counters that the discovery of the letter will turn her liege lords and men against her. Sansa does not trust the loyalty of the Northern lords, citing their history of switching sides.

Petyr tells Sansa that the men will trust her because she can rule.

Sansa tells Petyr that she is commanding 20,000 men who answer to Jon but not to her. Later, Sansa asks Petyr Baelish about where Arya got the letter from, unaware that Baelish orchestrated the entire incident.

While recognizing that Sansa wrote the letter out of fear, a bitter Arya says that she prefers to embrace anger over fear. Arya adds that Lyanna is younger than Sansa was when she wrote this letter but argues Lyanna wouldn't agree with Sansa's defense that she was a child at the time. She realizes that while Jon would understand the difficult circumstances Sansa was under when she wrote the letter, Sansa is afraid the Northern lords will discover it and turn on her, including Lyanna Mormont. Sansa demands to know where Arya found the letter and chides her younger sister that Cersei would be pleased to see them fighting but Arya is still bitter towards Sansa. Sansa adds that their half-brother Jon Snow was saved from defeat when Petyr Baelish and the Knights of the Vale came to their rescue and insists Arya would not have survived the torments she endured at the hands of Joffrey and Ramsay. Arya chastises Sansa for betraying their family but Sansa responds that they have only returned to Winterfell because of her, while Arya travelled the world in pursuit of her own agenda. Arya counters that she was not tortured and that she saw Sansa at Ned's execution Sansa retorts that Arya did nothing to stop their father's execution either.

Sansa replies that the Queen Mother Cersei Lannister forced her to do it under duress. She then confronts Sansa about her alleged role in their father's death.Īrya presents the letter that Sansa had written to their late brother Robb Stark urging him to come and bend the knee to King Joffrey Baratheon. Arya reasons that their father knew that the rules were wrong but that his daughter was in the right. Arya recalls that their father Eddard Stark had been watching and clapped his hands in praise of her accomplishments. She tells Sansa that she practiced several times until she finally hit the bullseye. Synopsis At WinterfellĪt Winterfell, Arya Stark talks to her sister Sansa Stark about borrowing Bran Stark's bow and arrow. 6.3.1 Jon's group heading north, and back.
