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Maester Luwin counsels Theon; he cannot hold Winterfell. Rodrik & Theon parlay, it goes poorly, he still wants to put his 17 men agains Rodriks 2000. He has Rodrik‘s daughter. A hostage will die ever dusk &dawn if the host doesn‘t retreat, starting with her. He knows they will attack, Luwin tries again, tells him to take the Black. As he considers, Reek returns with Bolton men. Reek reveals himself to be more powerful & crazy than he can handle.

Asha arrives. The deeds he does to keep the castle are getting to Theon, Ironborn are struggling with living with their enemies& Asha has only brought 10 men for him to hold Winterfell. She mocks him for killing the boys, encourages him to come to Deepwood Motte. he recalls how he stopped Maester Luwin from taking the bodies to the crypts. Theon dreams of the dead & wishes he left was Asha, revealing what he & Reek did to the miller‘s sons.

Theon awakes suddenly ¬ices the direwolves are silent. They are gone, along with Bran &Rickon;Jojen, Meera, Osha &Hoddor also escaped. Theon opts to wait til the morning to try to hunt them. But he doesn‘t want his sister Asha, currently sieging Deepwood Motte, to find he has lost the Starks. They follow the trail through wolfswood, finding evidence of the wolves but not the people. Reek offers another theory of where they may stop.

Theon is leading his traitorous party & looting along the coast, still trying to prove he isn‘t soft & that he is not a Stark. He convinces Dagmer that they should go inland &take a castle.

He is trying to woo a woman called Esgred “the shipwright‘s wife” they talk easily, he asks for her help choosing a crew, she makes fun of his “salt wife”, they talk of his inheritance & time w/the Starks… only to find she is his sister Asha.
At dinner she mocks him mercilessly with all the lies she told him &the secrets he told her.
His father plans for them to sail to Deepwood Motte & move against Robb, Theon is given no choice but to go along.

Theon is returning home to the Iron Islands for the 1st time in 10 years (since being taken as Ned‘s ward). The Iron Islands used to pillage other lands taking slaves for the mining & farming which Aegon the Dragon had put a stop to, when they tried to go back to the Old Ways, Robert &Ned‘s forces stopped it. He has great hopes for his homecoming, but Greyjoys have their own agenda, & they will sail, but not at Robb‘s behest.