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SPOILERS AHEAD – Don\u2019t read if you\u2019re not all the way caught up on Game of Thrones\u2026. And if you\u2019re not, why not??<\/strong><\/p>\n This morning it occurred to me that I hadn\u2019t really thought through what\u2019s about to hit Winterfell. The Night King is on the march towards the wall, or at least towards Eastgate, and possibly around The Wall. He\u2019s got a shiny new dead dragon to probably blow a hole through that Wall. That\u2019s the immediate future. What\u2019s after that? Winterfell.<\/p>\n One of several things is going to happen there: <\/p>\n Littlefinger will stage a coup to take over Winterfell. He has the troops on his side, and thinks that Arya is going to do his dirty work for him and get rid of Sansa. If that was going to happen, she probably would have done it last week while she had that knife in her hand. (That knife is the one the assassin tried to kill Bran with, and was stolen by Littlefinger after Ned Stark\u2019s death. It was on Ned\u2019s desk in King\u2019s landing). So, I don\u2019t think Arya\u2019s going to do Littlefinger\u2019s dirty work for him, because chances are pretty good she\u2019s on to him. Arya could outright kill Littlefinger.<\/p>\n I think there\u2019s an additional possibility that would be a lot more interesting. In the midst of plotting how to take care of Littlefinger, Bran intervenes and tells Arya and Sansa they have to get the heck out of Winterfell. Sansa will probably resist, thinking that she\u2019s got to stay at Winterfell to hold the family home. Arya would tell her that Littlefinger has been plotting, and they need to run for their lives. On the face of things, it\u2019ll seem that is what Bran is warning about.<\/p>\n Cut to Sansa, Arya and Bran getting the heck out of Winterfell. Littlefinger enjoys his victory at taking over Winterfell – and then the thing that Bran was really worried about happens – The Night King and the Dead arrive, and swarm the castle. Bet Littlefinger hasn\u2019t thought through all the possibilities and has come up with that scenario.<\/p>\n A much worse scenario would be for Sansa to be stuck there only to die when the dead take over. Since Bran presumably has to survive through all this, it could just be that Arya and Bran end up leaving. Or they could all end up hiding in the family catacombs. Wouldn\u2019t be very good to be hiding out down there, with the Night King wandering through bringing back their dead relatives though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"