George R.R. Martin's A Game Of Thrones #23

In Winterfell, Bran, worried strange dreams about the three-eyed crow learns from Master Luwin children in the forest, the indigenous inhabitants of Westeros. But his lesson interrupted by another bird crow, with gloomy news from King's Landing: Lord Eddard is dead. Meanwhile, it is to the once-proud city, now stained with blood and madness that Tyrion Lannister is sent to his father, Tywin to rule as regent for the young King Joffrey. And across the sea, Daenerys learns that her son is dead ... and her husband is worse than dead.