"Alas, I wish that was the case. In animals other than the dragons and my direwolf, I cannot move further than thirty miles away without losing the connection. I know Winterfell and the surrounding lands far better than any free folk skinchanger. Most of them have never learned to ride horses either. And Bolton patrols do not scare me, I will have my dragons and Ghost to help me. And last but not the least, I can't leave Rickon in the hands of the flayed man, Sansa. He might be our last brother..."