After escaping Craster's Keep, Bran and his companions release Ghost and Summer. Later, Ghost is briefly reunited with Summer for the first time since leaving Winterfell, when his cries summon the other direwolf to his cage, but Summer falls into a trap. Rast taunts Ghost by pouring water in front of the cage. One night, Karl Tanner orders Rast to feed Ghost, which he refers to as 'the beast'. Ghost has been captured and caged by the Mutineers. Ghost reunites with his master Jon after being freed by Bran. When Sam stumbles across Bran, Jojen Reed, Meera Reed, and Hodor, Sam recognizes Bran due to the presence of Bran's direwolf Summer, having spent enough time with Ghost to be able to recognize a direwolf. Instead, he ventures back into the Haunted Forest. Ghost later accompanies the Night's Watch survivors to Craster's Keep but refuses to enter this time. Season 3ДЇollowing the attack of the White Walkers against the Night's Watch at the Fist, Ghost saves Sam from a wight, giving Jeor Mormont the chance to destroy the wight with fire. Later, when Jon asks to join Qhorin's raiders, Ghost follows, but as they travel, the direwolf separates from the group and ultimately disappears, despite Jon's calls for Ghost to stay with them. ДЄlong with the black brothers, Ghost climbs the Fist of the First Men. Sam, who had already taken notice of her, tells Ghost to stay away. While the Night's Watchmen stay at Craster's Keep to rest and inform themselves about Mance Rayder, one of Craster's daughters, Gilly, is frightened by Ghost when he approaches her, attracted by a dead rabbit she's holding. Ghost follows his master and the rest of the Night's Watch as they venture deep into wildling territory in their Great Ranging. Ghost at the Fist of the First Men with the Night's Watch. However, they both return to Castle Black. When Jon nearly deserts to join Robb in his war against the Lannisters, Ghost leaves with him. Jon encounters the undead Othor, risen as a wight, and saves the life of the Lord Commander. Suddenly the door shuts and Ghost is locked outside the room.

Jon understands something is wrong and follows the wolf to the Lord Commander's quarters. When Jon is confined to quarters for threatening Ser Alliser Thorne, Ghost begins to whine at the door in the middle of the night. While Jon and Sam say their oath of fealty to the Night's Watch in front of a heart tree north of the Wall, just inside the eaves of the Haunted Forest, Ghost finds the corpses of two rangers, Othor and Jafer Flowers, and brings one of their severed hands back to Jon and a horrified Sam. Jon warns Rast that вЂњno one touches SamвЂќ while Ghost stands over Rast, snarling.

Ghost helps him to threaten Rast in the middle of the night, to prevent him from bullying Sam. Jon takes Ghost with him to Castle Black when he joins the Night's Watch. Jon and the other Stark children adopt the direwolf pups. Theon Greyjoy mockingly calls the pup 'the runt of the litter' and says this pup belongs to Jon. Shortly after, Jon finds a sixth direwolf pup - an albino wolf. He urges his father to allow his siblings to adopt them, stating that there are five pups for the five trueborn Stark children and the direwolf is the sigil of the Stark house. When a litter of five direwolf puppies are found by the Starks, Jon convinces his father Eddard Stark to spare the pups.

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