aryastarkles:

The gods wanted me to have it.  Not the Seven, nor Him of Many Faces, but her father’s gods, the old gods of the north.  The Many-Faced God can have the rest, she thought, but he can’t have this.

She padded up the steps as naked as her name day, clutching Needle.  Halfway up, one of the stones rocked beneath her feet.  Arya knelt and dug around its edges with her fingers.  It would not move at first, but she persisted, picking at the crumbling mortar with her nails.  Finally, the stone shifted.   She grunted and got both hands in and pulled.  A crack opened before her.

“You’ll be safe here,” she told Needle.  “No one will know where you are but me.”  She pushed the sword and sheath behind the step, then shoved the stone back into place, so it looked like all the other stones.  As she climbed back to the temple, she counted steps, so she would know where to find the sword again.  One day she might have need of it.  “One day,” she whispered to herself.

girlronanlynch-deactivated20190:

I thought it was the lord who smelled of death;

mashamorevna:

“Who are you?” he would ask her every day.

“No one,” she would answer, she who had been Arya of House Stark, Arya Underfoot, Arya Horseface. She had been Arry and Weasel too, and Squab and Salty, Nan the cupbearer, a grey mouse, a sheep, the ghost of Harrenhal… but not for true, not in her heart of hearts. In there she was Arya of Winterfell, the daughter of Lord Eddard Stark and Lady Catelyn, who had once had brothers named Robb and Bran and Rickon, a sister named Sansa, a direwolf called Nymeria, a half brother named Jon Snow. In there she was someone… but that was not the answer that he wanted.

imgonnaeditstuff:

What’s in a Name? → Arya Stark

“Arya is an Indian name that means “honorable, noble” in Sanskrit.” [x]

houselannister:

But that was stupid. Her home was gone, her parents dead, and all her brothers slain but Jon Snow on the Wall.

howboutakiss:

_{She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear, and it felt as though Syrio Forel walked beside her, and Yoren, and Jaqen H’ghar, and Jon Snow.}

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:

I can be your f a m i l y

macneiceisms:

“What if the wolves come?”

“Yield.”

ifallelseperished:

_{That was the best part, the dreaming. She dreamed of wolves most every night. A great pack of wolves, with her at the head. She was bigger than any of them, stronger, swifter, faster. She could outrun horses and outfight lions. When she bared her teeth even men would run from her, her belly was never empty long, and her fur kept her warm even when the wind was blowing cold. And her brothers and sisters were with her, many and more of them, fierce and terrible and hers. They would never leave her.}

Gendry/Arya movie posters ; part I