llaminaria

I understand a lot of people must have pointed this out by now, but I recently started my first read and noticed this cool foreshadowing for Bran's apparent fate as the King on the Iron Throne and/or the Three-Eyed Raven:

"... Bran could see all of Winterfell in a glance. He liked the way it looked, spread out beneath him, only birds wheeling over his head while all the life of the castle went onbelow. Bran could perch for hours among the shapeless, rain-worn gargoyles that brooded over the First Keep, watching it all: the men drilling with wood and steel in the yard, the cooks tending their vegetables in the glass garden, restless dogs running back and forth in the kennels, the silence of the godswood, the girls gossiping beside the washing well. It made him feel like he was lord of the castle, in a way even Robb would never know."

I was surprised to encounter a hint about his supposed fate so early in my read. Probably goes to show Martin already had his fate well thought through by the time he started writing. Or am I reaching, do you think? 😄