The Stark Direwolves

direwolves + b&w [@ retargaryens]

“Sometimes he could sense them, though, as if they were still with him, only hidden from his sight by a boulder or a stand of trees. He could not smell them, nor hear their howls by night, yet he felt their presence at his back… all but the sister they had lost. His tail drooped when he remembered her. Four now, not five. Four and one more, the white who has no voice” — Summer (Bran).

The Starks and their Direwolves » Bran and Summer. Every night it’s the same. I’m walking and running, but… I’m not— I’m not me. I’m running through the godswood, sniffing the dirt, tasting blood in my mouth when I’ve made a fresh kill, howling.

30 DAYS OF GAME OF THRONES Day 03: Favourite animal/creature → Direwolves

The Starks and their Direwolves » Arya and Nymeria. “I told her to run, to go be free, that I didn’t want her anymore. There were other wolves for her to play with, we heard them howling, and Jory said the woods were full of game, so she’d have deer to hunt. Only she kept following, and finally we had to throw rocks. I hit her twice. She whined and looked at me and I felt so ‘shamed, but it was right, wasn’t it? The queen would have killed her…”

The Starks and their Direwolves » Sansa and Lady. That was Arya’s wolf. Lady never hurt you, but you killed her anyway.

“A long time ago, she remembered her father saying that when the cold wind blows the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”

30 DAYS OF GAME OF THRONES Day 03: Favourite animal/creature → Direwolves

I won’t be afraid. He was the Prince of Winterfell, Eddard Stark’s son, almost a man grown and a warg too, not some little baby boy like Rickon. Summer would not be afraid.

“Lady,” he said, tasting the name. He had never paid much attention to the names the children had picked, but looking at her now, he knew that Sansa had chosen well.

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives

They were meant to have them.