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VISION OF THE PAST - TOWER OF JOY

NED STARK rides towards the Tower of Joy with six companions. One of the companions is HOWLAND REED. Two Kingsguard are sitting at the foot of the tower, one of which is ARTHUR DAYNE. When they see the horses approaching, they retrieve their gear and walk out to meet them. BRAN and the THREE-EYED RAVEN are standing on an outcropping, watching events unfold. NED dismounts his horse.

BRAN: That's my father.

THREE-EYED RAVEN: The man beside him is Howland Reed, Meera's father.

"So that's how greenseing is used, you literally enter the past to watch" Arya said in fascination

"Past, present or a future depending how good you are you can watch anything" Bran said

"So did you try to watch anything" Sansa asked

"I did but this place is cut off from westeros so I can't watch it clearly" Bram explained

The Kingsguard walk past BRAN and THREE-EYED RAVEN.

BRAN: Ser Arthur Dayne.

THREE-EYED RAVEN: The Sword of the Morning.

BRAN: Father said he was the best swordsman he ever saw.

NED and his companions confront the Kingsguard. ARTHUR stabs his sword into the dirt.

ARTHUR: Lord Stark.

NED: I looked for you on the Trident.

ARTHUR: We weren't there.

KINGSGUARD: Your friend the usurper would lie beneath the ground if we had been.

"Why weren't they? You could have just left two Kingsguard to protect Laady Lyanna Stark it's not like many knew where she was and taken Arthur Dayne with you if you did wouldn't you have won the war" Oberyn asked

"I was worried about Lyanna's life and didn't think I would need Arthur to fight my battle for me. To tell you the truth I didn't think I would lose with Ser Barristan Selmy with me" Rhaegar stated

NED: The Mad King is dead. Rhaegar lies beneath the ground. Why weren't you there to protect your prince?

ARTHUR: Our prince wanted us here.

NED: Where's my sister?

ARTHUR: I wish you good fortune in the wars to come.

ARTHUR and the other Kingsguard put on their helmets.

ARTHUR: And now it begins.

The Kingsguard draw their blades.

NED: No. Now it ends.

"What order did you give them exactly that they won't even let father meet her sister?" Robb asked

"The three Kingsguard knights were specifically commanded to keep her safe and protect her from the ongoing war and the wrath of King Robert Baratheon." Rhaegar said

"And what? Did they think that Lord Stark would hand her and her child to Robert? Seriously none of these three are knights" Aemon said

"Have care of how you speak of the dead? Those three were honourable men who followed the orders of Prince Rhaegar until the end" Jamie Lannister said

"And shit load of good it did? Did they think they would keep me safely than Lord Stark and the north could, and you are speaking of honour as if they had any. They stood there and watched there king commit atrocities one after another and now they stand before a brother who have fought a war for his sister and stopping him. Lord Stark had more honour than them otherwise I wouldn't have survived until now, it was his honour that caused all of you to not question even once when he said I was his bastard, it was his honour that he fougt with these three Kingsguard who were keeping his sister from him if it were me I would have shot them dead with arrows." Aemon retorted silencing Jamie Lannister and anyone else who would have supported him like Rhaegar.

NED and his men draw their blades and attack. ARTHUR cuts down HOWLAND. The other Kingsguard runs one of NED's men through with his sword. NED engages in single combat with the other Kingsguard and stabs him through the throat. NED and his three remaining men surround ARTHUR. NED and his men attack all at once, but ARTHUR deflects all of their blows repeatedly, then repositions himself. He kills one of NED's men with a downward strike from both of his blades. NED and the two remaining men advance on ARTHUR. ARTHUR deflects their blows again and slices the throat of another man, then runs another through with his blade. NED engages ARTHUR in single combat.

BRAN: He's better than my father.

THREE-EYED RAVEN: Far better.

BRAN: But Father beat him.

THREE-EYED RAVEN: Did he?

BRAN: I know he did. Heard the story a thousand times.

ARTHUR traps NED's blade and wrenches it from his hands. ARTHUR makes a motion to strike NED down, but HOWLAND stabs ARTHUR in the back. ARTHUR falls to his knees.

BRAN: He stabbed him in the back.

NED retrieves a sword and slashes ARTHUR with it, killing him. A woman screams from the Tower and NED storms towards it.

"So that's how you killed Ser Arthur Dayne " Jamie Lannister said in realisation, "All this time I thought you bested him in single combat but you stabbed him in the back to kill him"

"Like you are one to talk, didn't your men stab father from the back when you were fighting him" Robb stark retorted as he defended his father

"Yes and I killed that soldier for it and didn't finish your father because that's not how I wanted it" Jamie said

BRAN: What's in the tower?

THREE-EYED RAVEN: That's enough for one day. We'll visit again another time.

BRAN: I want to see where he's going.

THREE-EYED RAVEN: Time to go.

BRAN: Father!

NED stops on the stairs and turns around in the direction of BRAN's yelling but sees nothing and proceeds up the stairs. BRAN chases after him but is intercepted by the THREE-EYED RAVEN, who touches him on the shoulder.

"Did you hear me?" Bran asked his father

"I did feel like someone calling me so I turned back but no one was there and I was worried about Lyanna so I didn't think much of it"

GREAT WEIRWOOD TREE - CAVE

The white leaves BRAN's eyes as the vision fades. The THREE-EYED RAVEN is tangled in his roots. A child of the forest looks on. BRAN crawls towards the THREE-EYED RAVEN.

BRAN: Why did you do that? Take me back there. I want to go back.

THREE-EYED RAVEN: No.

BRAN: He heard me.

THREE-EYED RAVEN: Maybe. Maybe he heard the wind.

BRAN: He heard me.

THREE-EYED RAVEN: The past is already written. The ink is dry.

BRAN: What's in that tower? I want to go back there.

THREE-EYED RAVEN: I've told you many times, stay too long where you don't belong and you will never return.

BRAN: Why do I want to return? So I can be a cripple again? So I can talk to an old man in a tree?

THREE-EYED RAVEN: You think I wanted to sit here for 1,000 years watching the world from a distance as the roots grew through me?

BRAN: So why did you?

THREE-EYED RAVEN: I was waiting for you.

BRAN: I don't want to be you.

THREE-EYED RAVEN: I don't blame you. You won't be here forever. You won't be an old man in a tree. But before you leave, you must learn.

BRAN: Learn what?

THREE-EYED RAVEN: Everything.

"Huh! I thought he was Brynden Rivers but he is talking about himself as someone from thousand years meaning that the personality of Three Eyed Raven has taken over that of Brynden Rivers." Aemon said

"What does it means?" Catelyn asked

"It means that if Bran becomes Three-Eyed Raven then he won't remain the same his feeling aand emotions as Bran Stark will be muted and won't be the same."

"What!?" Catelyn exclaimed in surprise

"Don't you dare think about going to anywhere near the wall?" Catelyn all but shouted at Bran.

Bran didn't try to argue his mother as even he didn't want his emotions to die and be taken over by some ancient entity such as the Three-Eyed Raven.