From the books, regarding Arya and "The Stranger" aka who we think as Jaqan -
"Beneath his cowl all she could see was the faint red glitter of candlelight reflecting off his eyes. "What place is this?" she asked him. "A place of peace", His voice was gentle. "You are safe here."
He asks her if she fears death, she says no and he tests her.
"Let us see." The priest lowered his cowl. Beneath he had no face, only a yellowed skull with a few scraps of skin, still clinging to his cheeks, and a white worm wrigling from one empty eye socket. "Kiss me, child," he croaked in a voice as dry and husky as a death rattle."
And then from Bran -
"Seated on his throne of roots int he great cave, half-corpse and half-tree, Lord Brynden seemed less a man than some ghastly statue made of twisted wood, old bone, and rotted wool. The only thing that looked alive in the pale ruin that was his face was his one red eye, burning like the last coal in a dead fire, surrounded by twisted roots and tatters of leathery white skin hanging off a yellowed skull.
The sight of him still frightened Bran -- the weirwood roots snaking in and out of his withered flesh, the mushrooms spouting from his cheeks, the white wooden worm that grew from the socket where one eye had been. He liked it better when the torches were put out. In the dark he could pretend that it was the three-eyed crow who whispered to him and not some grisly talking corpse."
Arya has been learning from death.
Has Bran also been learning from death?
Submitted May 29, 2017 at 08:30AM by RocketPowerHandshake http://ift.tt/2qrQZ8R
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