![]() Of note, she has a small, sharp knife on her hip (the fruit knife) and another “ real blade” secreted in her cloak. She was made for eating fruit, for smiling and joking, for working hard and doing as she was told. A real blade, not a fruit knife like the one on her hip, but it did not belong to Mercy, no more than her other treasures did. She’d hid some coins in one of those, an iron key in another, a blade in the last. It was a real mummer’s cloak, purple wool lined in red silk, with a hood to keep the rain off, and three secret pockets too. Last of all she threw her cloak across her shoulders. She knotted it about her waist, and hung a knife on her right hip and a coin pouch on her left. ![]() ![]() Her boots were lumps of old brown leather mottled with salt stains and cracked from long wear, her belt a length of hempen rope dyed blue. Her blade flashed out, smooth and quick, one deep slash through the velvet and he never felt a thing.Īt the outset of “Mercy” we witness her preparing to go to the theater: She sharpened the steel on a whetstone until its edge glimmered silver-blue in the candlelight. Red Roggo had taught her how to use it, but she had not slit a purse since back before they took away her eyes. It took her three more days of watching before she found the way, and another day of practicing with her finger knife. We know from ADwD that she is adept at palming small knives: Mercy gave a gasp and stepped away, her face confused and frightened. ![]() Instead she slid her finger down along the inside of his thigh. Just before this she has apparently sliced his femoral artery with a different knife, most likely a small, sharp one that could be easily palmed: Both text and symbolism strongly hint that the blade that does Raff in is none other than Needle, last seen being hidden under a loose stone on the steps leading to the House of Black and White. This is not the first long, thin blade we’ve seen Arya with. A fine red rain followed, and in his eyes the light went out. She slipped it through his throat beneath the chin, twisted, and ripped it back out sideways with a single smooth slash. Raff the Sweetling looked up sharply as the long thin blade came sliding from her sleeve. When Arya stabs Raff the Sweetling in TWoW sample chapter “Mercy” she uses a “long thin blade” that was evidently hiding up her sleeve: ![]()
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