He doesn't know enough to say, but losing someone like that, or a rift with them -- that could make anyone keep to themselves for a while. He thinks of when he left Ygritte, and learned of Robb's death, the way his room in Castle Black had held all his sorrow, and his wounds had let him sleep away the worst of it. He had seen so little then of Pyp or Grenn, and not much more of Sam. He had seen Maester Aemon only when the old man had come to tend his wounds or give him milk of the poppy.]
When my father died, or my brother, I wanted to keep to myself. When I've taken wounds, I didn't want friends, not for long. I could not laugh with them.
What she's done, I don't think it was meant to wound you. I know it did, but I don't think it was meant to.
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He doesn't know enough to say, but losing someone like that, or a rift with them -- that could make anyone keep to themselves for a while. He thinks of when he left Ygritte, and learned of Robb's death, the way his room in Castle Black had held all his sorrow, and his wounds had let him sleep away the worst of it. He had seen so little then of Pyp or Grenn, and not much more of Sam. He had seen Maester Aemon only when the old man had come to tend his wounds or give him milk of the poppy.]
When my father died, or my brother, I wanted to keep to myself. When I've taken wounds, I didn't want friends, not for long. I could not laugh with them.
What she's done, I don't think it was meant to wound you. I know it did, but I don't think it was meant to.