George R. R. Martin

With his estate divided and his family scattered, Lord Eddard Stark returns to his territory to fight an ancient spell that is slowly devouring what is left of his land. Reprint.

A Clash of Kings

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They are not strong, she told herself, so I must be their strength. I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt. However frightened my heart, when they look upon my face they must see only Drogo's queen. She felt older than her fourteen years. If ever she had truly been a girl, that time was done. 

“Ten years a wolf, and you land here and think to prince about the islands, but you know nothing and and no one. Why should men fight and die for you?”

“I am their lawful prince,” Theon said stiffly. 

“By the laws of the green lands, you might be. But we make our own laws here, or have you you forgotten?”

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He remembered their godswood; the tall sentinels armored in their grey-green needles, the great oaks, the hawthorn and ash and soldier pines, and at the center the heart tree standing like some pale giant frozen in time. He could almost smell the place, earthy and brooding, the smell of centuries, and he remembered how dark the wood had been even by day. 

That wood was Winterfell. It was the north. I never felt so out of place as I did when I walked there, so much an unwelcome intruder. 

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