Bran then notices that Robb is cradling a small pup, and gives it a stroke after Robb reassures him.
Theon comments that direwolves have not been seen south of the Wall for two hundred years. Jon correctly identifies the corpse as a direwolf. They find Robb holding something in his arms next to the corpse of a wolf larger than Bran's pony. Jon calls from up ahead for them to come see what he and Robb have found. Jon Snow and Robb Stark find the corpse of a direwolf, by Mark Evans © Fantasy Flight Games Eddard corrects that the man was a deserter, then explains that the First Men-from whom the Starks descend-believed that the man who passes the sentence should perform the execution himself, lest he become too comfortable with ordering deaths the Starks still hold to that principle. Bran replies that the man was a wildling. Eddard rides up and asks if Bran knows why he executed the man himself. On the way back to Winterfell, Robb and Jon argue about whether or not the deserter died bravely before racing their horses to the bridge, leaving Bran and his pony behind. Jon calls Theon an ass under his breath and compliments Bran on his poise during the execution. The head lands near Theon, who laughs and kicks it away. Jon Snow, Bran's bastard brother, reminds Bran not look away and so Bran watches as his father strikes off the man's head with a single stroke. Eddard pronounces the sentence (desertion of the Night's Watch is punished by death) and raises the blade. Then two guardsmen drag the man to the stump of a tree and Theon Greyjoy, Eddard's ward, brings Eddard his Valyrian steel sword, Ice. The offender turns out to be an old man dressed in the ragged blacks of the Night's Watch who has lost his ears and a finger to frostbite. Bran's older brother Robb thinks the man to be executed must be a wildling sworn to Mance Rayder, the King-Beyond-the-Wall, which makes Bran think of the tales Old Nan has told him about wildlings. This is the first time that he is allowed to join.
It is the ninth year of summer Seven-year-old Bran Stark is traveling with a party of twenty men, including his father Lord Eddard Stark, to see the king's justice done.
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