Hot Pie

Season One

A baker's boy conscripted for the Wall along with dozens of King's Landing's least martial residents, swept up by Yoren after Ned Stark's execution leaves half the city looking for somewhere else to be. He is soft, hungry, and not remotely built for soldiering, and he says so, loudly and often, to a fellow recruit called Arry who is keeping a rather bigger secret than he is. The company files out through the gates and onto the kingsroad north, Hot Pie grumbling about his feet the whole way, with no idea that the boy walking beside him is a girl, a Stark, and the reason Ser Meryn Trant keeps asking questions at every crossing.

Season Two

North on the kingsroad with Yoren's company, more useful with a rolling pin than a sword and increasingly aware of it. When Lannister soldiers cut the party down and kill Yoren, he survives only by being unremarkable enough to march to Harrenhal as a captive rather than a corpse, and spends weeks in Lord Tywin's kitchens turning out pigeon pie good enough to catch the Hand's own notice. He helps Arya and Gendry slip away when the chance finally comes, but when the three of them reach a crossroads inn on the way south he decides he has had enough of running. He stays behind to knead dough for the innkeeper, and the road goes on without him.

Season Six

Still at the crossroads inn years later, older, stouter, and evidently a competent baker, turning out loaves shaped like direwolves for reasons the show leaves charmingly unexplained. Brienne and Podrick stop there hunting for the Blackfish and find him instead, and he places Arya's old traveling name easily enough to tell them she was alive the last he heard, bound across the sea for Braavos. It is a small scene and a small kindness — a boy who chose bread over swords passing along the one piece of information that matters to the people asking, then turning back to his oven as they ride on without him.

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