A Storm of Swords - The Lady of The Leaves -

A Storm of Swords – The Lady of The Leaves

While searching for Beric Dondarrion, the Brotherhood Without Banners visit a hidden village in the trees ruled by the Lady of the Leaves.

I’ve been looking forward to this Arya chapter. It’s a wonderful offbeat tour of the Riverlands revealing parts that you want to have a book about unto itself. The Lady of the Leaves comes off as what TV Tropes calls a big-lipped alligator moment. She adds nothing to the plot, and we probably will never see her again, but she’s a whole lot of fun.

As a picture itself, I’m pretty happy with this. My only problem with it is the angle I chose doesn’t make it convincing they’re as high up as the text says.

asoiaf a song of ice and fire a storm of swords illustration lady of the leaves village trees forest brotherhood without banners lem lemoncloak tom o seven streams greenbeard gendry arya stark — They climbed to a hidden village in the upper branches, a maze of rope walkways and little moss-covered houses concealed behind walls of red and gold, and were taken to the Lady of the Leaves, a stick-thin white-haired woman dressed in roughspun. “We cannot stay here much longer, with autumn on us,” she told them. “A dozen wolves went down the Hayford road nine days past, hunting. If they’d chanced to look up they might have seen us.”
Arya IV – pg 299

September 20, 2022

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