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  ===Writing===
  "Dark Wings, Dark Words" was written by co-writer Vanessa Taylor, who had previously written the episodes "Garden of Bones" and "The Old Gods and the New" for Season Two. This episode adapts the following chapters from George R. R. Martin's ''A Storm of Swords'': Bran I, Sansa I, Jon II, Arya I,II and V and Jaime II and III.