Chapter 52, Jon, Chapter 53, Bran, and Chapter 54, Daenerys Summary

A group of men go Beyond-the-Wall in search of the body belonging to the hand Jon's direwolf found. They stumble on two men, both men who were with Benjen Stark when he went in search of the missing knight more than six months before. The men appear to have been dead only a short time, but Jon believes they have been dead much longer by the state of the blood in their veins. Jon also believes they were not killed here, but moved. It is also suggested they were killed by wildlings, but Jon notices their blue eyes, which suggests that they were killed by the Others. The men decide to take the bodies back to Castle Black.

Over dinner that night Jon gets into a fight with Ser Alliser when...