A poster at Westeros:R'hllors Red Lobster has started a re-read and they noticed the passage below. Which Onrack notes above(maybe the same person), just going to reproduce it below as it is really is interesting.
Just started my first re-read of the series, and just came across this passage; Inrau visiting the shrine of Onkis
The idol was worked in white marble, eyes closed with the sunken look of the dead. At first glance she appeared to be the severed head of a woman, beautiful yet vaguely common, mounted on a pole. Anything more than a glance, however, revealed the pole to be a miniature tree, like those cultivated by the ancient Norsirai. [...]
Her image never failed to stir something within him, and this is why he always returned to her; she was stirring, the dark place where the flurries of his thoughts arose. She came before him.
(Bolding mine)
I still think there is something more to the "Outside" scene, wondering if this may have any significance.