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What is death to a Stark?
The swing of the ancestral sword upon his own neck.
Ned is beheaded, but death is nothing.
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What is death to a Stark?
The smell of his flesh as fire consumes.
Rickard is burnt, but death is nothing.
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What is death to a Stark?
The pain of birth, of new life, of bone tiring weakness.
Lyanna bleeds, but death is nothing.
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What is death to a Stark?
The sting of betrayal, as the dagger pierces, as his men fall.
Robb has lost, but death is nothing.
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What is death to a Stark?
The gleam of the court, the unmoving faces, as his eyes plead.
Brandon is strangled, but death is nothing.
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What is death to a Stark?
The thump of his heart, as he runs, as the arrow punches.
Rickon is shot, but death is nothing.
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What is death to a Stark?
The burn of the cold, the grip of the wights, the bite of their teeths.
Benjen is swarmed, but death is nothing.
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What is death to a Stark?
The loss of hope, as the knife slashes.
Catelyn falls, but death is nothing.
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The want of revenge, as the knife slashes.
Stoneheart rises, for death is nothing.
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What is death to a Stark?
The feeling of peace, as the night darkens.
Snow sleeps, but death is nothing.
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The feeling of dread, as the day brightens.
Jon wakes, for death is nothing.
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What is death to a Stark?
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The words from ravens, her loneliness.
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Sansa cries, but death is nothing, but her companion, her family.
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What is death to a Stark?
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The list she recites, the masks she peels, a promise of after.
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Arya is angry, for death is nothing, not today.
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What is death to a Stark?
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The suffering of thousands, the ache in his heart, the fall from the tower.
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Bran is consumed, for death is nothing.
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He sees, he witnesses, he shouts, for death is everything.
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But what is death to a Stark?
Its fate, crisscrossed in so many patterns.
Its nothing and its everything.
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