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[Scene changes to BRAN and company inside of a windmill. A storm rages outside]
"How are we going to get past the Wall? My uncle said it's 700 feet high."
[OSHA looks at Bran and he looks at her]
"How did you get past it?"
"Got in a boat and rowed past the Bay of Seals."
"That might be safe" Lyanna muttered to herself.
"It would take us two months to get to the Bay of Seals."
The woman sighed. There goes that idea.
"Some climb straight up the ice."
"Absolutely not!" Catelyn screeched in outrage. "You can't climb that high!"
Bran rolled his eyes. Of course, he couldn't... his legs were broken!
"Even Hodor's not strong enough to climb the Wall with me on his back."
"Nineteen castles guard the Wall. Only three are still manned. One of those abandoned fortresses will give us a way through."
"My uncle said the gates were sealed with ice and stone when the castles were deserted."
[MEERA looks at Bran]
"Well, we'll have to open them up again."
"And how exactly are six of them going to manage that?" Robb raised a brow. "They might have an easier and quicker time to row across the Bay of Seals like that Wildling woman of theirs."
"Osha, her name is Osha" Jon informed softly.
"Yeah, Osha" Robb nods.
[MEERA gazes outside and sees an OLD MAN on horseback]
"There's a rider out there."
"Just one?"
"There's more."
[Horses neighing outside. OSHA tries to quiet down HODOR]
"I forgot he was afraid of the thunder" Lyanna muttered. She'd seen Hodor become freaked out by it before. Back then they were both young; well Hodor was, and Lyanna was only two years younger than she was when she died. But Hodor was big back then as well, and big boys had very big freakouts"
[OLD MAN from outside shouts his surrender]
"Wildlings!"
[OSHA starts turning her head then gazes outside]
[Thunder rumbles, HODOR stands up freaked out. OSHA tries to hold HODOR back but he pushes her aside and starts yelling and moving around anxiously]
"He's going to give their position away!" Brandon the Elder hissed.
"He's afraid!" Lyanna defended.
"His fears are going to get these people killed!" Brandon snapped.
"There is no use arguing over this" Rickard stopped them both with a cold tone. "Watch."
Both siblings grumbled and turned away from each other.
[HODOR continues Hodoring. ORELL hears voices coming out of the windmill. He stops and looks up]
"Shit" Robb muttered, biting his fingernails. That was the worst person to overhear them.
"Hodor, calm down. Hodor, be quiet!"
[BRAN'S eyes roll back as he wargs into HODOR, HODOR stops making noises as he falls to his knees and then falls asleep on the ground. ORELL is still looking up at the windmill from the outside. Inside of the windmill, everybody is in shock at what just happened]
"What did you do?" Arya asked
"You warged into Hodor's mind," Jon said evenly.
Bran grinned at that, only for it to fall when he saw how unhappy Jon looked.
"Why are you scowling?" Arya asked. "He stopped Hodo! Got in his mind and all that."
"Seizing the body of another man is the worst abomination. They are not animals for you to enjoy. They are intelligent and have lives with some meaning. Animals become bound to you when you do so, as would a human. They would leave everything to be there for you. You have no right to do something like that to someone else." Jon calmly explained.
Bran and Arya looked away feeling a little shame at ever thinking what future Bran had done was cool.
It was not.
But they knew better now.
[Scene shifts to the wildlings who are outside of the windmill with the OLD MAN. ORELL is still looking up at the windmill]
"I heard shouting up there."
"Thunder."
"I know the difference between shouting and thunder."
[ORELL's eagle is seen circling over the windmill. TORMUND approaches the OLD MAN who is sitting on the ground. He pulls a knife out on TORMUND, YGRITTE gets her bow and arrow out and aims for the OLD MAN]
"That won't help you, grandpa."
[TORMUND sticks his hand out, asking for the knife. The OLD MAN gives it to TORMUND, who tosses it aside]
"Cut his throat or he'll tell the crows we're here."
"You understand."
"Let me stand at least. Let me go with a bit of dignity."
"The man's got pride" complimented Robert with some respect.
"He's a man of The North," Ned said with some respect to the man. No Northerner would beg for their lives or die with their bodies prostrating.
"Make the crow kill him."
Arya hissed in anger. He was an Old Man! A defenseless Old Man.
"You have to do it" Robb muttered beside him. "You have a mission, you can't do shit if you die here" he explained when Jon gave him a look. "It's not right... but you have a duty."
Arya turns towards Jon and sees his face watching without any expression. To her it was the way of Jon supressing his emotions. He'd have to for the mission... could he do it for the mission?
[YGRITTE, TORMUND and the OLD MAN stare back at JON. JON unsheathes Longclaw. He places his sword against the OLD MAN's neck. The OLD MAN closes his eyes and starts praying, JON hesitates]
"Told ya. He's still one of them."
"Go on, boy."
[JON glares back at TORMUND. JON raises his sword but hesitates. YGRITTE shoots the OLD MAN in the chest with an arrow, killing him. This prompts ORELL and TORMUND to reach for their swords]
Arya relaxed in her seat. Jon didn't have to kill the old man.
But that meant his cover was blown. The Widlings knew he was pretending.
Arya inhaled deeply then let out a sigh.
All of this was a mess.
[JON and YGRITTE are standing side by side in defensive positions. YGRITTE prepares to shoot an arrow at either ORELL or TORMUND but JON pushes her to the ground first. JON, ORELL and the other wildlings have a sword fight while TORMUND runs towards YGRITTE. She starts yelling and screaming as TORMUND tries to restrain her. YGRITTE bites TORMUND'S arm which causes him to lose his grip on her. She starts running away but TORMUND grabs her and tackles her to the ground.]
"She cares" Lyanna repeated for what was like the hundredth time.
"And it's getting her killed" Jon countered.
Lyanna reached out and patted her son's shoulder.
"She chose to fight for you," she said gently, "she chose to."
"And if not for me, she wouldn't have to" Jon muttered though it was just a statement he knew that it won't happen again and he would save Ygritte.