A Running Man Is Like A Wounded Animal To A Soldier. It Gets His Bloodlust Up. Eddard Stark

A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up. — Eddard Stark

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Craven, Jaime thought… Can it be? They took my sword hand. Was that all I was, a sword hand? Gods be good, is it true?

Hello ! Sorry if this has been asked before- when do you think Jon and Dany will meet and will the circumstances of them meeting and falling in love will be more or less like the show or drastically different? I mean, Jon will still want to get dragonglass, right?

Drastically different. Jon does want dragonglass – but more importantly, Stannis wants dragonglass, Stannis controlled Dragonstone, Stannis ordered his men on the island to start mining for dragonglass, and Stannis is still alive in the books and very probably still will be by the time Dany gets to Westeros. That “controlled” is in past tense, mind you, because the Lannister-Baratheon-Tyrell army attacked Dragonstone castle and island under the leadership of Loras Tyrell – also alive in the books btw – and captured it although they took great losses, including Loras who was greatly wounded and is under care of maesters (probably including Stannis’s former maester Pylos).

If Dany comes to Dragonstone before King’s Landing (no guarantee there), she’s not just going to walk in with no resistance, there’s an army on the island and in the castle. (Though if she does take Dragonstone, she’ll probably come face-to-face with Loras, a terribly disfigured survivor of burns, which should be extremely interesting re her probable acceptance of “fire and blood” and possible resistance to compassion.) She will also find that dragonglass has already begun being mined (I imagine crates of it just inside the lava tunnel entrances of the volcano) and will probably find out why. (From Maester Pylos? Or from Stannis’s former castellan Rolland Storm if he wasn’t killed and is captive in the castle? Both? Somebody for sure.) Mind you, that’s assuming the Tyrells don’t ship the mined dragonglass to King’s Landing for lack of finding any other treasure…

Another major difference: there will almost certainly be no Jon Snow “king in the north” scene of any sort, because he’s not dealing with the Boltons and retaking Winterfell, Stannis is. If Robb’s will becomes relevant again and its contents are known (it is not necessarily with Maege Mormont and Galbart Glover in the Neck, though it might be), then it is possible that Jon may be acclaimed by the northern loyalists, but it’s also just as possible there may be a lot more resistance to Robb’s idea that he could just order the Night’s Watch to release Jon. Even if Jon has left the NW due to, y’know, being assassinated and dead and resurrected, the Northern lords take the NW vows extremely seriously; although their loyalty to Robb is also extremely serious so it may cancel out. Nevertheless, there won’t be any sort of “Battle of the Bastards” to make Jon famous – again, that’s Stannis who’s been rallying the northern lords and retaking Winterfell, so. Stannis is a major factor here who just can’t be ignored.

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They made a race of it, dashing headlong across the yard and past the stables, skirts flapping, whilst knights and serving men alike looked on, and pigs and chickens scattered before them. It was most unladylike, but Alayne sound found herself laughing. For just a little while, as she ran, she forget who she was, and where, and found herself remembering bright cold days at Winterfell, when she would race through Winterfell with her friend Jeyne Poole, with Arya running after them trying to keep up.                                                                                             Alayne, The Winds of Winter

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