Everything Burns

bohemea:

hello darkness my old friend

I’ve made a huge mistake.

There were curses, shouts, howls of pain. Jon saw Big Boil stumble backward and knock down three men behind him. Ghost, he thought for one mad instant. Ghost leapt the Wall. Then the lightning turned the night to day, and he saw the wolf standing on Del’s chest, blood running black from his jaws. Grey. He’s grey.

[…]

He tried to think back on the madness at the inn, but all he could remember was the beast, gaunt and grey and terrible. It was too large to be a common wolf. A direwolf, then. It had to be. He had never seen an animal move so fast. Like a grey wind … could Robb have returned to the north?

Winter is coming, warned the Stark words, and truly it had come for them with a vengeance.

It is nothing, she tried to tell herself

“It’s said that Robb Stark died twice”

Favorite ASOIAF characters » Rickon Stark

“Shaggy,” a small voice called. When Bran looked up, his little brother was standing in the mouth of Father’s tomb. With one final snap at Summer’s face, Shaggydog broke off and bounded to Rickon’s side. “You let my father be,” Rickon warned Luwin. “You let him be.”