What happens next is perhaps the first moment that Arya sees Sandor as a human being rather than a beast: If there were gods, why didn’t Lord Beric win? She knew the Hound was guilty. When Beric’s sword breaks and he falls to the Hound, it seems the gods have spoken:Īrya could only think of Mycah and all the stupid prayers she’d prayed for the Hound to die. Sandor is given a trial by combat against Lord Beric. So, kill me, but don’t call me a murderer while you stand there telling each other that your shit don’t stink.” The only difference is, I don’t lie about what I am. Well, bugger your ribbons, and shove your swords up your arses. Maybe the sword’s prettier with ribbons hanging off it, but it will kill you just as dead. The rest, the vows and the sacred oils and the lady’s favors, they’re silk ribbons tied round the sword. You lie like knights, maybe you murder like knights.” He makes it quite clear what his opinion of knights is, saying: His reaction is one of bitter anger: “ Might be you are knights after all. Then the BwB begin to accuse him of all the crimes of Lannister soldiers, holding him personally responsible for acts committed by others. When Sandor is brought before Lord Beric, he mocks the BwB for calling themselves knights. By the time she encounters him in ASoS, when they are captives of the BwB, she has prayed for his death “hundreds of times.” The night before Sandor is brought in by the Huntsman she thinks about the people on her list: “Maybe some of them are dead … Maybe they’re in iron cages someplace, and the crows are picking out their eyes.” The next morning she wakes to the Hound about to be imprisoned in a cage outside her window. Regardless of Sandor’s defense, the killing of Mycah has earned him a prominent place in Arya’s “prayers”, side by side with the people responsible for killing her father. When questioned about Mycah’s crime by Lord Beric, Sandor replies “I heard it from the royal lips. I hate gutless frauds even worse”), perhaps we can assume that perhaps his version close to the truth as he perceives it. The butcher’s boy attacked a prince of the blood.” Since we’ll see that Sandor, while he is a brutal killer, is honest and possessed of a certain honor (“Don’t lie … I hate liars. In ASoS Sandor himself attempts to justify the act when he is put on trial for murder by the BwB: “I was Joffrey’s sworn shield. While she doesn’t witness the act, or the return of the body, she hears the tale from others– Jeyne Poole tells her: the Hound “cut him up in so many pieces that they’d given him back to the butcher in a bag”, while Jory tells her something closer to the truth: “ cut him near in half” and her father names it murder: “That murder lies at the Hound’s door, him and the cruel woman he serves.” But it was his killing of her friend Mycah that lodged him in her brain as Enemy Number One. Arya and the Hound by ChaoyuanXu on DeviantArtĪrya’s first introduction to Sandor Clegane was most likely at her home when the royal party came to Winterfell.
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