Brienne the Bumped Off?

I get the impression that this Brienne chapter, the previous one, and the next one, were written consecutively and then spread throughout the book.

They each follow on each other far too closely - at least, the first two do. She's at the mercy of Biter, and then she's up again and presented to Stoneheart, who condemns her to hang. But the trilogy is not yet finished.

Or at least, it may not be - perhaps the word that she screams as she hangs leads to mercy. Though that seems unlikely - but, if there's one thing to learn from Martin it's that the unlikely can't be discounted. How many times was Beric revived? Maybe that's how many feints Brienne will have in her fight with death. Maybe.

Otherwise, this chapter was pretty consistent with the others, though beyond the close following, this and the previous Brienne chapter have a similar feel to them. They both seem like their suffused with the dreamlike - though, that begins when Brienne starts her fight with Rorge and Biter, and continues to the point where she's hung.

Yet, the big thing here is that the sense of dreaminess is brought out so fully that the mention of dreams only serves to confirm it rather than create it. What creates it in the first place is the lack of logical connections between paragraphs as Brienne passes from consciousness to unconsciousness. And the reason why they manage to do so is that Martin follows a consistent pattern of paragraphing, not necessarily using topic sentences and that level of organization, but one that is very sequential.

Thus, when that sequence is broken it suggests that there's a little more going on than usual.