--- title: Maisie Williams Silences Fan Who Doubts Arya Stark's Power description: Maisie Williams is here to remind you that you can't mess with Arya Stark in 'Game of Phones,' a sketch from 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' canonical: https://time.com/5580357/jimmy-kimmel-live-game-of-phones/ author: Rachel E. 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[Maisie Williams](http://time.com/5563114/maisie-williams-sophie-turner-friendship/) is here to remind you that you can’t mess with [Arya Stark](http://time.com/5579429/game-of-thrones-arya-stark-azor-ahai/). In a _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ video sketch that aired earlier this week, the [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/5580244/game-of-thrones-lighting-cinematographer/)gang got back together as hosts of “Game of Phones,” a hotline for viewers of the hit to call in 24-hours a day with questions about the show. One caller in the sketch asked Liam Cunningham, who plays Davos Seaworth, what [Kit Harington](http://time.com/5579684/kit-harington-favorite-game-of-thrones-scene-with-rose-leslie/) smells like. The actor behind Jon Snow smells like “a mixture of old yogurt and Axe body spray,” Cunningham said. [Isaac Hempstead Wright](http://time.com/5007756/game-of-thrones-isaac-hempstead-wright-bran-stark-theory/), featured in front of a box of ‘Raven Bran’ cereal, used his [Bran](http://time.com/5579736/game-of-thrones-bran-stark-lord-of-light/) powers to tell another caller how to find her lost keys. (He also told her she’d die of Mad Cow Disease, because [Bran doesn’t mess around](http://time.com/5574932/game-of-thrones-bran-night-king-battle/).) But the real magic is when Williams adds a caller to her [kill list](http://time.com/4385792/game-of-thrones-arya-stark-kill-list/). Todd didn’t like the fact that Williams’ Arya was responsible for saving all of mankind in the “Battle of Westeros” during last Sunday’s episode. “You expect me to believe a 90-pound girl can defeat an army of White Walkers?” Dough doesn’t know who he’s messing with, and Williams added him to Arya’s list of those she’s coming after — right below Cersei. 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