Ep. 210: - Arya XII | A Storm of Swords | "Wolf Dream"

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

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Arya dreams that she is running with a pack of wolves every night, but by day she is still Sandor’s captive. The Hound hit her with the flat of his axe to keep her from entering the Twins. Sandor now intends to take her to the Eyrie and ransom her to Lady Lysa. That night, Arya dreams the wolf dream again, and she watches as the other wolves feast on corpses by the river. She follows a scent that leads her to her mother’s body, and pulls it from the river. Looking at the corpse, Arya’s wolf-self thinks "Rise. Rise and eat and run with us." Then, the pack notices men approaching and flees. Arya wakes up. At some point they encounter a survivor from the Red Wedding, a bowman in service to Ser Marq Piper. The man is injured, and they give him water, then Sandor gives him the gift of mercy. Later, she and Sandor take on work in a village in the foothill of the Mountains of the Moon, and learn that the Vale mountain clans have grown bolder and now carry steel. Realizing they will never reach the Eyrie, Clegane decides to head back to Riverrunand attempt to ransom Arya to the Blackfish. Arya tells the Hound that he has lost his belly for fighting since he ran from the Battle of the Blackwater, but he just laughs at her.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The United States.
0:09.0	The Hello and welcome to Ben the Nia Song of Ice and Fire podcast.
0:29.5	I am Sir Matt.
0:31.0	And I'm Sir Jimmy of House Nuts.
0:32.1	Welcome back to our Song of Ice Empire Book Club.
0:33.9	Today we are into Aria 12 of a Storm of Swords.. Are ya is are you 12 years old in a storm of swords?
0:40.5	Maybe. Right? Probably. Maybe. Maybe 11.
0:45.1	Yeah, maybe 11. It's kind of weird to think about that. I don't, her birthday I don't really know off the top of my head.
0:50.6	John's is like, oh, you know, the one that pops into it because there's so much more going on with it. But yeah, Arias, I don't specifically know. But should I go ahead and say it? She's 12. I was right. Perfect. Should I go ahead and say it? Go ahead. Was it a short chapter? I mean, no. It wasn't necessarily a short chapter, but it was definitely a more of a fallout chapter. Yeah. Yeah, because now we're dealing with her fallout of the of the red wedding because, you know, man, bouncing around a little bit. Again, this is just like that John chapter where it's like we've been a while since we've been with John. Yeah. And now here we are the same thing. This is one of the, you benefit a little bit more from of a POV read. But I always feel like these aria chapters is where you get like what's going on in the realm. The common folk. Aria is like a lens more so than anybody I feel like in her chapters to the common folk. If I, listen, if I ran into somebody on the streets and they said, Aria is my favorite like P. OV to read from, I wouldn't disagree. I wouldn't argue with it. And I, and I love me some Tyrion. I even like a lot of people don't like branch. I love brand chapters because that's what you have fun. Oh, that's like they're magical,
2:01.0	literally.
2:01.9	Yeah,
2:02.3	they really are.
2:03.1	And I think that Ari,
2:04.7	is like a good balance between like you're saying realm politics,
2:09.1	but she's also experiencing some crazy stuff.
2:11.6	I mean,
2:12.1	Barak Dondarian,
2:13.3	Ghost of High Heart,
2:14.2	obviously,
2:15.3	Jack and Hagar and then going over into S or Bravo's, like,
2:19.4	it's a, she might be the most balanced of all the characters when it comes to being like,
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