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  ==== ''A Clash of Kings'' ====
  Arya escapes King's Landing with Yoren and his party of recruits; and on the road, she clashes with the other Night's Watch child recruits Lommy, Gendry, and Hot Pie but eventually befriends them. On the way, the party is attacked by Amory Lorch when Yoren refuses to yield Gendry, who is actually a bastard son of the late King Robert, to the Lannisters.  The Night's Watch convoy is overrun and massacred, but Arya and the other children escape through a tunnel.  Before escaping, she rescues three prisoners locked in a wagon cage, among them a mysterious man named Jaqen H'ghar.
  Arya and her friends are later captured by Ser Gregor Clegane and taken to Harrenhal as slave laborers.  After witnessing the torture death of her fellow prisoners, Arya begins nightly reciting the names of the people upon whom she wishes to exact revenge.  At Harrenhal she re-encounters Jaqen, now under the employ of the Lannisters, who offers to kill for her any three people she names;  whereupon she names two people who hurt her at Harrenhal.  When Jaqen asks her to name the last target, Arya extorts him to help her free northern prisoners by naming Jaqen himself as the third person. In order to get Arya to retract the name, Jaqen stages a massive prison riot that overwhelms the Lannister garrison.  Afterwards, Jaqen offers to take Arya with him, but Arya expresses wish to go home, so he gives Arya a strange Braavosi iron coin to ensure her induction into his guild, the Faceless Men, and tells her to remember the passphrase "''Valar Morghulis''" ("All men must die" in High Valyrian) before leaving.  The next morning, Roose Bolton captures the castle, and Arya becomes his personal cupbearer.  Eventually, Arya escapes Harrenhal with her friends Gendry and Hot Pie after killing a guard.