Previously on A Blog of Thrones, a Stark bumbled ineffectively as the country lurched closer to war. Plus ca change...
The Catelyn Stark Death Toll is now up to six, as they've lost three more in a second, off-page attack. She feels as though her heart is turning to stone nyeeaaaaaarrrr. Ser Donnel Waynwood has come to greet her at the gate. Apparently he wants to lead a sortie out to sort out the hill-tribes, but Lysa Arryn is bunkering down. She won't even allow her knights to attend Robert's tournament. (So what was Ser Hugh doing Oh My God George Has Made A Continuity Error This Series Is Ruined Forever.)
Ser Rodrik hasn't had a very good going of it, nearly dying of his wounds. But Catelyn won't leave him behind, showing us how much she cares about a guy who has almost no characterization. On the other hand, her solution is to tie him to the horse and make the singer watch him, showing us how little she cares about him.
And then we meet Uncle Brynden Blackfish Tully, who is a) extremely overrated and b) still one of the greatest non-POV characters in the series. After he hears her story he tells her that she needs to get word to Riverrun because it's right in the Lannisters' path. Captain Obvious in addition to being Captain of the Gate, that one. They enter the Vale of Arryn and there's a lengthy description of it. Yay. Bronn and the singer will accompany her. This upsets her because Bronn is getting friendly with Tyrion (and presumably the singer is tone-deaf).
There is trouble afoot in the Vale. Robert's appointment of the Kingslayer as Warden of the East has been confirmed, and not at all accepted by the Valeyards. And then there's Catelyn's nephew, Lord Robert Arryn, who is 6 and can't rule by himself.
"It seems to me that Lysa is only playing at courtship. She enjoys the sport, but I believe your sister intends to rule herself until her boy [comes of age]."
Uh, Blackfish, you didn't get a head start on A Feast For Crows, did you?
Climb, climb, meet a bastard, get angry because the bastard's a bastard, climb, climb.
Lysa Arryn gives them a frostier reception than Jon Snow got at the wall, and that's an accomplishment. The Lord of the Vale is still being breastfed at age six, and Lysa is cuckoopants. But they have a great solution to the Tyrion problem. Murder! That won't piss off Tywin or anything...
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