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6,000 of the Queen's men formed up to face Lord Hightower in the field under the command

of Sir Garibaud Gray. They fought bravely for a time, but a withering reign of arrows

from Lord Orman's archers thinned their ranks, and a thunderous charge by his heavy horse

broke them, sending the survivors running back toward the town walls. There, Red Rob Rivers

and his Bowman stood, covering the retreats with their own longbows. When most of the survivors

were safe inside the gates, Roddy the Ruin and his winter walls solid forth from a

post-earned gate, screaming their terrifying Northern war cries as they swept around

the left flank of the attackers. In the chaos that ensued, the Northmen fought their way

through ten times their own number to where Lord Orman Hightower sat his warhorse beneath

King Aegon's golden dragon and the banners of Old Town and the Hightower. As the singers

tell it, Lord Roderick was bloody from head to heel as he came on with splintered shield

and cracked helm, yet so drunk with battle that he did not even seem to feel his wounds.

He ended our last episode with Cersei's famous You Win or You Die line, spoken to Ned Stark.

But here in the dance of the dragons, the Winters' wolves show us a different attitude. To them,

it's more a case of You Win and You Die, or You Win When You Die, as long as it's in battle

with dead foes about that is.

Roddy the Ruin is Lord of Barrow Ten, but he shares the sentiment as all Northerners do

of their leech lord, Winters coming. From them, there's an acceptance of the inevitability

of death paired with the willpower to see it through on one's own terms in battle with

dead foes about that is, there is indeed no middle ground when facing a foe like the Winters'

wolves.

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