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THE BLIND GIRL
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Her nights were lit by distant stars and the shimmer2 of moonlight on snow, but every dawn she woke to darkness.
She opened her eyes and stared up blind at the black that shrouded3 her, her dream already fading. So beautiful. She licked her lips, remembering. The bleating4 of the sheep, the terror in the shepherd’s eyes, the sound the dogs had made as she killed them one by one, the snarling5 of her pack. Game had become scarcer since the snows began to fall, but last night they had feasted. Lamb and dog and mutton and the flesh of man. Some of her little grey cousins were afraid of men, even dead men, but not her. Meat was meat, and men were prey6. She was the night wolf. But only when she dreamed.
The blind girl rolled onto her side, sat up, sprang to her feet, stretched. Her bed was a rag-stuffed mattress7 on a shelf of cold stone, and she was always stiff and tight when she awakened8. She padded to her basin on small, bare, callused feet, silent as a shadow, splashed cool water on her face, patted herself dry. Ser Gregor, she thought. Dunsen, Raff the Sweetling. Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, Queen Cersei. Her morning prayer. Or was it? No, she thought, not mine. I am no one. That is the night wolf’s prayer. Someday she will find them, hunt them, smell their fear, taste their blood. Someday.
She found her smallclothes in a pile, sniffed9 at them to make sure they were fresh enough to wear, donned them in her darkness. Her servant’s garb10 was where she’d hung it—a long tunic11 of undyed wool, roughspun and scratchy. She snapped it out and pulled it down over her head with one smooth practiced motion. Socks came last. One black, one white. The black one had stitching round the top, the white none; she could feel which was which, make sure she got each sock on the right leg. Skinny as they were, her legs were strong and springy and growing longer every day. She was glad of that. A water dancer needs good legs. Blind Beth was no water dancer, but she would not be Beth forever.
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