Some try, [ she hazards and then wonders if it is wrong to speak so freely. ] To blame them. An animal may wound a man's pride by besting him. And so a man calls for the animal's hide to see the wrong answered for. [ A pause, then carefully. ] It is perhaps not right, but it is the way of the world. And animals have no voices with which to speak their case.

[ Again, a pause, but there is no use in hiding the Stark wolves. They hardly hid themselves; they were too large and always at their masters' sides. ] There are six to the pack, but only three aboard. Lady, Grey Wind, and Summer.

Are you familiar with wolves, stranger?