25.
CATELYN You can always say No.
Ned allows a grim smile, taking his wife’s hand and helping her to her feet.
NED You don’t know the king very well.
EXT. WINTERFELL GATES - DAY
From the stronghold’s gates, the King’s Road wends its way to the horizon -- where tiny specks of red and gold appear, barely visible. Very slowly, they grow larger.
The king’s party approaches.
EXT. TOWER - DAY
Bran climbs down the side of the tower, his hands and feet finding purchase on its jutting stones with a monkey’s unthinking agility. Climbing is as natural to him as studying is onerous. He smiles as he makes his way toward the ground in record time, very pleased with himself--
Until his mother yanks him off the stones. Catelyn lowers him to the ground and sternly waits for an explanation.
BRAN I was... I was...
CATELYN You were bored with your lesson so you decided to climb the castle walls, even though I’ve forbidden it two hundred times.
BRAN
I--
CATELYN Brandon... I want you to promise me: No more climbing. Promise.
Bran looks at his feet before gazing up at her solemnly.
BRAN
I promise.
Catelyn leans over to look her son dead in the eye.
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