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The Early on in Aria's chapters, her biggest problem is keeping her stitches straight, being less pretty and graceful than Sansa,

and Septimordane's judgment on all or some of the above. Now, no one calls her a sweet

summer child, because in world, that's a pejorative term for naive adults, not for actual children like she is.

But comparing those early chapters to later ones is like night and day.

Or black and white, eh?

Since then, so much has changed.

This is a girl who ate worms and didn't bat an eye, and she did it multiple times.

Once when it was a wormy apple, she didn't bother her at all, and then there was the worm in the

skull face of the kindly man. It's hard to imagine this girl was ever afraid of septimordane,

right? Like, that's, she's come a long way.

It hasn't even been that long since Septimordane was her guardian, since her death even.

But it might feel that way because so much has happened, right? It's hard not to think of

Aria as someone a bit older because of all she's been through.

But really not that much actual time has passed from the start of the series to where we're at now,

about two, two and a half years. In that time, she's been through a lot, loss of family.

She's been a refugee in the Riverlands during wartime, during the time where some of the

worst people in Westeros were unleashed to do their

worst upon the Riverlands, and she encountered all of them. Amory Lortch, Gregor Clegane, Vargo

Hote, Ruse Bolton, Tywin Lannister. She arrived just in time for the Red Wedding for the

worst part. Now she's killed people as well on her own, and now she's

being trained by the best killers in the world to do more of that. These killers are basically a death

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