Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25926288-20161101150057/@comment-25375217-20170118231254

Actually, I'm betting the only thing that will happen is that James meets Robert, and not in any way that's overly memorable for 8-year-old brain. He eventually goes through with George's request for him to be raised as a knight and becomes quite comfortable with killing things, so the one random shepherd that offered to take him away but then disappeared mysteriously is not a big deal.

This does seem to point fingers in the direction of George being responsible for Robert's death. Perhaps he hired Hook or something dumb like that to create drama.