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game of thrones - Why would Arya Stark not disguise her face during these investigations?


In episode 7-5, Eastwatch, Arya follows Peter "Littlefinger" Baelish around Winterfell, suspicious of his intentions. During some of those moments, she seems half visible. Littlefinger receives a raven scroll from Maester Wolkan, and leaves it locked inside his room before leaving. Arya breaks into the locked room, finds the scroll, and discovers that it is the letter written from Sansa (under duress from Cersei) following the death of King Robert, asking her family to swear fealty to King Joffrey. Arya leaves the room, unaware that Littlefinger is watching her from the shadows.





Why would she not wear a face-mask as the Faceless Men do?


We saw in episode 7-1, Dragonstone, that she has the skills to make a face-mask and impersonate people because she made a mask from Walder Frey's face. She might have hidden several face-masks in a travel bag before she left Braavos. Her choice seems even riskier when you consider she already has the face-mask of a young woman with her. She wore it in an earlier episode when she killed Walder Frey.






A face-mask would allow her to impersonate a stable boy or a chambermaid without arousing the suspicions of Littlefinger. A stable boy could wander about Winterfell without a second thought from anybody. A chambermaid could go into a guestroom - with permission - to change the sheets or clean the room and not arouse suspicion. Arya as herself did arouse suspicion when she entered Littlefinger's guestroom.


I am not looking for an out-of-universe explanation (e.g. - the plot required it), but an in-universe explanation.




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