A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

by George R.R. Martin

descend. Finally he heard voices down beneath him.” “The voices of the dead,” said Wyman Manderly. Wex held up five fingers, tapped each one with the dagger, then folded four away and tapped the last again. “Six of them,” asked Davos. “There were six.” “Two of them Ned Stark’s murdered sons.” “How could a mute tell you that?” “With chalk. He drew two boys … and two wolves.” “The lad is ironborn, so he thought it best not to show himself,” said Glover. “He listened. The six did not linger long amongst the ruins of Winterfell. Four went one way, two another. Wex stole after the two, a woman and a boy. He must have stayed downwind, so the wolf would not catch his scent.” “He knows where they went,” Lord Wyman said. Davos understood. “You want the boy.”