Reply #4: He may have left an escape clause for Jon [View All]

[FloridaJudy]

At least, I hope so. The Stark kids have a telepathic connection to their direwolves: Snow's consciousness could continue in Ghost. Or maybe the wolf shows up at the last minute to kill his attackers. People have recovered from what seem like fatal wounds before in the series.

I wouldn't worry about Dany. She's got a fucking dragon guarding her back! No Dothraki are going to mess with her, and if they do, they're toast. Literally.

"Dance" leaves a whole lot of loose ends. I'd gotten rather attached to Samwell - probably not a wise idea for any characters in "Fire and Ice', including the main ones! I'd really like to know if he makes a Maester. And Sansa's cousin, Robert, went from being a budding monster to become a very sad, very sick, very scared boy. I think if he's allowed to live long enough Sansa could humanize him. And who is the dead man guiding Bran? Is it Benjen? I'm left with even more questions after finishing the book!

GRRM takes a lot of his plots from real European history, so I suspect the Yunkai are catapulting the corpses of plague victims into Meereen, much as the Mongols were said to have done at the siege of Caffa in 1346.