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[BRAAVOS
ARYA'S ROOM
Arya lays on her bed, playing with her coin in her hand. Suddenly, the door opens, and she sits up. The waif enters with a cane, and begins pacing.
ARYA: What do you want?
WAIF: Who are you?
ARYA: What?
WAIF: You, who walk in here with a coin you never earned, whose value you do not respect. (Stops and walks to Arya). Who are you?
ARYA: (After a moment, perks up). No one.
The waif quickly swings her cane at Arya, hitting her arm. Arya, now on her feet, turns to face the waif, holding her arm in pain.
ARYA: Ow! Cunt!
WAIF: A lie, a sad little lie. Who are you?
ARYA: I told you, I'm no - (Gets hit again). Do that again and -
The waif hits her a third time, sending her to the ground.
WAIF: Who are you?
ARYA: You're about to find out.
Arya reaches for her sword. Before she can pick it up, Jaqen appears.
JAQEN: What are you doing?
WAIF: We were only playing. The game of faces
JAQEN: A girl is not ready.
WAIF: Clearly not.
ARYA: (Stands up). I am ready.
JAQEN: For what? For whatever you want. To be a Faceless Man. To be no one.
The waif turns to her. Jaqen looks at the sword on Arya's bed.
JAQEN: Whose sword is that? It belongs to Arya Stark. Arya Stark's sword, Arya Stark's clothes, Arya Stark's stolen silver. A man wonders how is it that no one came to be surrounded by Arya Stark's things?
The waif, looking smug, leaves.
"They want to erase her sense of self" Oberyn Martell said in understanding
"Arya no matter what you are never going to Braavos" Catelyn Stark stated
Arya herself didn't need to go as she already has the skills of the faceless men so she nodded her head seeing which Catelyn and Ned brethed a sigh of relief as they thought she would be stubborn like usual.
EXT. DOCK
On a dock near the house of Black and White, Arya wraps a rock in her clothes. She is wearing new clothes, similar to the ones the waif wears. She ties them up and drops them into the water, the rock causing them to sink. She picks up her coin purse and throws it in the water. After a moment of examining her original coin in her hand, she throws it in the water as well. She looks at her sword Needle for a moment, and then picks it up. She prepares to throw it in the sea, but finds herself unable to, and begins to sob. She turns and walks over to some nearby rocks, and hides the sword under some of them.
THE HOUSE OF BLACK AND WHITE
Arya is again sweeping the floor in the main room. She notices the men from the beginning of the episode carrying another dead body into the back room. However, after a moment, she realizes that she didn't hear the door close, and she looks up to find it wide open. Jaqen surprises her by suddenly putting his hand on her shoulder. He nods towards the door, and begins walking over to it. Arya follows him, leaving the broom outside. They go down a fire-lit tunnel. Jaqen opens the door at the end of the tunnel to reveal a chamber. Inside, the waif stands motionless next to a large stone slab. On it is the dead man. Jaqen leaves through the back door. After Jaqen closes the door, the waif begins to remove the dead man's clothes. She looks up at Arya, who walks over and begins to do so as well. The waif inspects his body. She wets a rag and begins cleaning off the man.
ARYA: What do we do with them after we wash them?
The waif only looks up and smiles lightly, making no other response. She goes back to washing him, and Arya wets a rag of her own to help.
[WINTERFELL; COURTYARD]
[The gates are opened. SANSA, BAELISH, and a number of knights on horseback gallop through.]
Sansa tensed, still being held by her mother (even harder now that her future self was inside Winterfell and in the hands of their enemies). She already knew the kind of depravity that Ramsey Bolton was capable of (she'd seen it herself)... all the depravity she would face now.
What would Ramsay Bolton do to her...
[THEON watches from nearby through some metal bars, trembling. BAELISH gets off of his horse. ROOSE, RAMSAY, and WALDA watch as SANSA gets off hers. ROOSE walks forward. BAELISHleads SANSA towards him, rubbing her hands.]
"Lady Sansa, welcome."
[After a tense moment, SANSA smiles and curtsies.]
"May I introduce my son, Ramsay Bolton?"
[ROOSE stands aside to reveal his son. RAMSAY smiles and walks forward, removing his gloves]
"If we didn't already see the kind of man that Ramsay was, I'd think he was a decent man with that smile and courtesy" Lyanna scowled.
"That's the problem, you all judge with what you see and never more" Ned spoke, the tension in his tone palpable. "The way his eyes shift, the way he stands, the way he's eyeing Sansa, all indicates that he is putting up a mask, a false personality to appear what he is not."
"Well, I'm sorry we're not taught to look into such things" Lyanna rolled her eyes.
"Then woe to your teachers for not teaching you how to look for things instead of going by the face" his tone was cold and chipped. "I will personally speak with their Septa about this. If she fails to understand my worries and not change her teachings, I'll look elsewhere."
Lyanna stared at her brother momentarily, caught a little off guard by his tone. Then again, that was his daughter, so it was understandable that he'd been feeling like this.
Catelyn kept her silence. There was much that her daughters would need to learn, and if the Septa was not able to teach them that, then Ned was right to look elsewhere. She would not argue it.
[RAMSAY takes her hand and kisses it. Nearby, MYRANDA and other women watch.]
"She is not happy" Oberyn smirked, some of his usual carefree energy returning to him. He knew what would happen should he persist on his path... he was already planning for another one. Perhaps one that would involve the stunted lion cub...
"She was his lover no doubt, and unlike Dorne, the rest do not take kindly to paramours or otherwise. No doubt she feels put aside" Elia muttered. "The only thing is, would she take it out on Sansa..."
"probably would" Oberyn shrugged.
[HALLWAY]
[An old servant woman leads SANSA down a hallway to her chambers.]
"I'll bring you a bowl of hot water. You must want to wash."
"Thank you."
"Welcome home, Lady Stark."
[The next words are spoken quieter, almost a whisper]
"The North remembers."
Catelyn smiled at the old servant woman. Catelyn knew her well, old Betha who oversaw the servants and designated the duties that Catelyn wanted done. It was good to see her survive this, and even better that she remained loyal to House Stark.