Arya recalls Old Nan's stories about Evil King Harren and how Aegon unleashed his dragons to turn the castle into a pyre. Hot Pie worries about ghosts at Harrenhal, but Yoren only spits. There they can buy new mounts or take refuge at Harrenhal, the seat of Lady Shella Whent, a known friend of the Night's Watch. Yoren decides to go north to where the river meets the lake, sell all they have to hire a boat in the town there, and sail across the lake to Harrentown. With no way to cross the river without abandoning the wagons, they cannot pass along the lake's western shore as planned, and going east will bring them back to the kingsroad. Drawing a map in the mud, Yoren explains that the river flows south from the Gods Eye. The scouts return at midday to report only a burnt bridge. While they wait, Lommy and Tarber go wading and throw mud at Hot Pie while Arya watches Kurz catch a fish with his hands, thinking it must be easier than catching cats. Yoren sends Dobber to search the body for valuables and, finding they cannot cross, he takes Koss upriver and sends Woth and Gerren downriver to look for a ford. The river seems a peaceful place to Arya until Koss finds a soldier decomposing in the reeds. Before escaping Arya throws an axe to the three criminals trapped in their wagon. As the battle turns against them, Yoren orders Arya to get the survivors out through an escape tunnel in the burning barn. That night, Lannister raiders led by Ser Amory Lorch arrive to demand they open the gate.

Arya and the others decide to spend the night in the holdfast of an abandoned town on the southern shores of the Gods Eye.

Hack tunnel town