[Her eyes close and Arya knows if they were really fighting, she'd take this opportunity. A girl has no honor; a girl could hamstring and then kill her. But Arya doesn't want to kill her, she wants to learn from her.
And pain is a good teacher. Syrio says that every hurt is a lesson. Said. Her hand tightens on the hilt of her knife, and she remembers how Lommy got killed, how they were attached by Amory Lorch's men, how the Goat terrified them all. She thinks of Gendry and how he was so stupidly bullheaded, how he always looked like thinking hurt him; she thinks of Hot Pie, deciding to leave her; of Jesse and Lark and Chris and how she'd rip out the throat of anyone who hurt them, if only they let her.
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And pain is a good teacher. Syrio says that every hurt is a lesson. Said. Her hand tightens on the hilt of her knife, and she remembers how Lommy got killed, how they were attached by Amory Lorch's men, how the Goat terrified them all. She thinks of Gendry and how he was so stupidly bullheaded, how he always looked like thinking hurt him; she thinks of Hot Pie, deciding to leave her; of Jesse and Lark and Chris and how she'd rip out the throat of anyone who hurt them, if only they let her.
She nods. She has important things to fight for.]
I can do that.