We continue meeting the Stark family as the mother of the clan (is that the right word?) is introduced and talks to Ned, who I finally figured out was the father/leader and not Eddard. Right? Are Eddard and Ned the same person? Am I making myself sound really stupid??
So this chapter brought on a plethora of words and names I don't know how to pronounce. That should be fun for future readings. The thing I like about the author's style of writing is that it doesn't chuck a J.K Rowling. As much as I love the Harry Potter series, the descriptions tended to run a couple pages too long when just describing how a table fell over or something like that. This gave enough description for you to conjure in your mind but not too much so that it overwhelmed you.
A friend of Ned (who is also his brother in law because his friend's wife is Ned's wife's sister. Yeah.) died, which was momentarily sad. I find it great how we get a little backstory to insignificant characters or characters you're not going to actually meet. We also get a couple more of the children's names and Bran is not the youngest. My apologies.
Then we get news that King Robert is going to visit with pretty much half his court. Then there's some obvious tension when regarding the King's wife and her brothers. The Lannister's came in a little late to help the Stark's out and so they never really got buddy buddy with each other. I guess it's more tolerance.
There was a lot of talk about forests, and trees, and carvings in a special tree. That was all a little confusing and weird. But ok. I must be important? Jebus help me understand.
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