Game of Thrones 5.10 "Mother's Mercy" (spoiler alert)

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178. In the books Arya isn't blind forever

And she won't be in the show either. The blindness was both a punishment and a lesson. She learns to use her other senses and various other tricks that blind people use to get around, and she passes a test in the book and gets her vision back. That elevates her to a higher level in her training, and this time she's given a beautiful face and is sent to a mummer's troup to learn from them (probably how to act like different people). In the chapter in The Winds of Winter that Martin released about her she kills Raff the Sweetling at a theater. I think she was also learning to hide her killing activities from her teachers (in the books it's not Jaqen but a guy called "the kindly man" and the other girl is called "the waif&quot . During this time with the mummer's troupe she's also supposed to learn more languages.

In the books all the Stark kids can warg, but they don't realize it except for Arya who figures that out in her training though even from the time that she was traveling with Yoren, Gendry, Hot Pie and the others to the Wall she was having wolf dreams where she becomes Nymeria and hunts with her pack. It's also Nymeria that pulls the dead Lady Catlyn out of the river which is how Thoros (or I think Dondarian?) bring her back to life as Lady Stoneheart. When Arya wakes up from that dream as she's traveling with the Hound she's certain that her mother is dead.

Jon is still wishy-washy about that ability though he knows that when Ghost is near him he gets the same sort of higher senses that wolves have and also a craving for bloody meat. I think he knows more than he wants to admit to himself, and there was one instance during the long time that Ghost and he were separated when he had to climb the Wall that he senses Ghost's return because he starts getting those pre-warging feelings, and jumps up and starts calling for Ghost.

Sansa only occasionally felt Lady was near her or had a few dreams about her, but she's clueless about warging, and probably because Lady is dead. I expect Sansa to die since she lost her wolf permanently through Lady's death.

Rob was also a bit oblivious, and I can't remember if anything was ever said about him having "wolf deams" or anything like that. Doesn't matter since both him and Grey Wind are dead.