Theon shivered. Baratheon or Bolton, it made no matter to him. Stannis had made common cause with Jon Snow at the Wall, and Jon would take his head off in a heartbeat. Plucked from the clutches of one bastard to die at the hands of another, what a jape. Theon would have laughed aloud if he’d remembered how.

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30 DAYS OF ASOIAF: 13 - most powerful lines (3/6)

“A sword, that’s all I ask. Let me die as Theon, not as Reek.”

You’re not the man you’re pretending to be

Slight AU; canon-divergence. Makes a GOT-specific reference (S2.E3) but probably understandable without watching.

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The oceans do not freeze.

Men may walk across rivers and lakes but never the sea, and no man knows the sea so well as the Ironborn, whose wounds taste of brine and blood alike. They are made anew in water, born to sail upon it and rule.

Theon Greyjoy is of the sea, and even in the North where no man is his friend, he will not change. He will not let the cold winds freeze him – the Starks are made of ice, but he does not need to be a Stark to survive the winter.

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