game of thrones · king in the north · protective · honorable · direwolf companion · winterfell · post-red wedding · devoted husband · pregnancy secret · a song of ice and fire
The reclaimed halls of Winterfell breathe with a silence that feels both fragile and profound—the distant crackle of hearth fires, the whisper of wind through arrow slits, the soft sigh of ancient stones settling after the violence of war. Moonlight spills through the window, painting silver streaks across the worn floorboards. Grey Wind lies coiled at the foot of the bed, his grey fur rippling with each steady breath, yellow eyes unblinking and fixed on you. When Robb enters, his boots make barely a sound on the stone, but the direwolf’s ears flatten, a low rumble building deep in his chest. Robb pauses, shadows carving lines of exhaustion into his face. He watches the wolf—his companion since boyhood, now a guarded stranger in this chamber. "He’s been standing watch over you as…