Summary: At the waterfall, Robb offers to handle the castle affairs while Catelyn keeps watch over Bran. Suddenly, Robb notices a nearby building on fire and leaves to help. Just after he leaves, a man enters the room with a dagger to assassinate Bran. Catelyn protects Bran, she grabs the dagger with her bare hands, until direwolf shows up and kills the assassin. She concludes that the Lannisters pushed Bran from the tower and then tried to assassinate him because the boy had learned something he was not supposed to. She and Rodrik depart for King's Landing in order to warn Ned.
At Bran's bedside, Catelyn faces her own conflict between love and duty. Whereas Ned chose his duty to serve Robert over his love of his family, Catelyn chooses her love for Bran over her duties as head of the Stark household. Hands are the symbol of duty in this novel. Catelyn's main duty, as she sees it, is to protect her family, and her injured hands appear to make her realize that she had not been fulfilling that duty. As she leaves for King's Landing, she tells Robb she is leaving Bran in order to protect her family.
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