“I’m not a squirrel,” she said. “I’ll almost be a woman soon. I’ll be

one-and-ten.”  “Best watch out I don’t marry you, then!” He tried to tickle her under the chin, but Arya slapped his stupid hand away.  Lem and Gendry played

tiles with their hosts that night, while Tom Sevenstrings sang a silly song about Big Belly Ben and the High Septon’s goose. Anguy let Arya try his longbow, but no

matter how hard she bit her lip she could not draw it. “You need a lighter bow, milady,” the freckled bowman said. “If there’s seasoned wood at Riverrun, might be

I’ll make you one.”  Tom overheard him, and broke off his song. “You’re a young fool, Archer. If weher ransom, won’t

be no time for you to sit about making bows. Be thankful if you get out with your hide. Lord Hoster was hanging outlaws before you were shaving. And that son of

his... a man who hates music can’t be trusted, I always say.”  “It’s not music he hates,” said Lem. “It’s you, fool.”  “Well, he has no cause. The wench was

willing to make a man of him, is it my fault he drank too much to do the deed?”  Lem snorted through his broken nose. “Was it you who made a song of it, or some

other bloody arse in love with his own voice?”  “I only sang it the once,” Tom complained. “And who’s to say the song was about him? ‘Twas a song about a fish.

”  “A floppy fish,” said Anguy, laughing.  Arya didn’t care what Tom’s stupid songs were about. She turned to Harwin. “What did he mean about ransom?”  “We

have sore need of horses, milady. Armor as well. Swords, shields a police shieldcould hold me upside down and drainmy gutschange your mind, spears. All the things coin can buy. Aye, and seed for planting. Winter is coming, remember?” He

touched her under the chin. “You will not be the first highborn captive we’ve ransomed. Nor the last, I’d hope.”  That much was true, Arya knew. Knights were

captured and ransomed all the time, and sometimes women were too. But what if Robb won’t pay their price? She wasn’t a famous knight, and kings were supposed to

put the realm before their sisters. And her lady mother