A Clash of Kings – Collaborator
The lord’s bedchamber was crowded when she entered. Qyburn was in attendance, and dour Walton in his mail shirt and greaves, plus a dozen Freys, all brothers, half brothers, and cousins. Roose Bolton lay abed, naked. Leeches clung to the inside of his arms and legs and dotted his pallid chest, long translucent things that turned a glistening pink as they fed. Bolton paid them no more mind than he did Arya.
A Clash of Kings Chapter 63 – Arya
With Harrenhal under Northern control, Arya is in a much more comfortable position. While she’s reluctant to reveal herself, she is very much a northern collaborator as Roose Bolton’s personal cupbearer and being able to argue with Freys. The downside is her friends have abandoned her and other servants are not keeping any secrets about what they plan to do to her once the Boltons leave.
Here we see her arriving in the background of a war council between Roose Bolton and some of the Freys. I had originally planned this as a portrait of Roose, but I decided it worked better as an establishing shot of Arya’s current predicament. The downside is that it doesn’t show as much about Roose as I’d like and you’ll just have to take my word for it that he’s covered in leeches.