<P> While taking a walk together, Prince Joffrey and her sister Sansa happen upon Arya and her friend, the low - born butcher apprentice Mycah, sparring in the woods with broomsticks . Arya defends Mycah from Joffrey's torments and her direwolf Nymeria helps Arya fight off Joffrey, wounding his arm in the process . Knowing that Nymeria will likely be killed in retribution, Arya chases her wolf away; but Sansa's direwolf Lady is killed in Nymeria's stead and Mycah is hunted down and killed by Sandor Clegane, Joffrey's bodyguard . </P> <P> In King's Landing, her father discovers Arya's possession of Needle, but instead of confiscating it he arranges for fencing lessons under the Braavosi swordsmaster Syrio Forel, who teaches her the style of fighting known as "water dancing". After her father's arrest, Syrio is killed protecting her and Arya narrowly escapes capture . She later witnesses the public execution of her father before falling under the protection of the Night's Watch recruiter Yoren . </P> <P> Arya escapes King's Landing with Yoren and his party of recruits; and on the road, she clashes with the other Night's Watch child recruits Lommy, Gendry, and Hot Pie but eventually befriends them . On the way, the party is attacked by Amory Lorch when Yoren refuses to yield Gendry, who is actually a bastard son of the late King Robert, to the Lannisters . The Night's Watch convoy is overrun and massacred, but Arya and the other children escape through a tunnel . Before escaping, she rescues three prisoners locked in a wagon cage, among them a mysterious man named Jaqen H'ghar . </P> <P> Arya and her friends are later captured by Ser Gregor Clegane and taken to Harrenhal as slave laborers . After witnessing the torture death of her fellow prisoners, Arya begins nightly reciting the names of the people upon whom she wishes to exact revenge . At Harrenhal she re-encounters Jaqen, now under the employ of the Lannisters, who offers to kill for her any three people she names; whereupon she names two people who hurt her at Harrenhal . When Jaqen asks her to name the last target, Arya extorts him to help her free northern prisoners by naming Jaqen himself as the third person . In order to get Arya to retract the name, Jaqen stages a massive prison riot that overwhelms the Lannister garrison . Afterwards, Jaqen offers to take Arya with him, but Arya expresses wish to go home, so he gives Arya a strange Braavosi iron coin to ensure her induction into his guild, the Faceless Men, and tells her to remember the passphrase "Valar Morghulis" ("All men must die" in High Valyrian) before leaving . The next morning, Roose Bolton captures the castle, and Arya becomes his personal cupbearer . Eventually, Arya escapes Harrenhal with her friends Gendry and Hot Pie after killing a guard . </P>

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