How It All Goes Down
Bran I
- Bran sits in his room listening to the wolves howl in the godswood and wondering for whom they mourn this time.
- He starts howling, and a vexed Maester Luwin comes to see what is wrong.
- They discuss dreams, and Bran admits to having vivid tree dreams and dreams where he is a direwolf.
- When Luwin tells Bran the dreams are only tormenting him more, the young Stark takes up the howling again. Luwin leaves.
- Bran thinks back to why the direwolves are corralled in the godswood. The Frey boys and Rickon were playing lord of the crossing, and when Little Walder struck Rickon with a stick, Shaggydog attacked the boy.
- Luwin returns with a sleep draught that he claims will let Bran sleep without dreams.
- The potion puts Bran to sleep but not a dreamless one—Bran dreams he is a direwolf in the godswood again, hearing the world beyond Winterfell calling him.