8.布兰(5)

Now the king and his children and robb hunting, only him, his two sisters and rickon remained here. rickon was only a babe and girls were only girls. Where can he go?
He knew now. He was going to see the winterfell one last time. He went to the huge sentinel tree over the wall and climbed. Bran liked climbing. Mother said he learned climbing before walking. Bran didn’t remember either so he supposed it was true. In his eyes, those walls were not different from paved road, as long as you used your both hands and feet and knew how to find crevasses and holds. He soon found others could not. The guards of winterfell was all at sea when they saw him and even the strongest cannot climb half as good, so they gave up chasing him and reported his parents. Father commanded him to repent in the godswood before the hearttree, and bran did not like that place. The red eyes was always looking at him, and thousands of bloody hands were always waving at him. So he ran. Father did not find him the second day. they searched the wood many times and wondered where was he on earth. They found he was not on earth, but sleeping on the tall branch of a sentinel. Angry as he was, father laughed: “you are not my son!you are a squirrel! If you must climb, don’t let your mothers know.” so he continued, but mother seemed knew it anyway. She sent maester luwin put bran’s cloth on a pottery doll and throw it out of the window. “see what happened?” luwin asked. “I’m not pottery,besides I never fall.” old nan told bran a story that a boy was strike by lightening and the crows pecked out his eyes. So bran never climb when the sky was gloomy or rainy. The crows were not his concern, they knew him. They often follow him when he was on the ground but keeping away if others were near, and when he came to the broken tower, they would land on his head and shoulder to eat corns he brought. They never hurt him. So in the end mother also give up.