[He thinks on that — how easy it is for some men to be cruel and evil — then nods and takes a long pull of the ale.]
I don’t know when he was — [How do you put this?] — I don’t know the last thing to happen to him before he came here. Someone told me that Sansa said to call him — me — Lord Snow, that he’d like it, so it must have been sometime after I became Lord Commander. Did he ever speak of a mutiny?
[Maybe it’s the case: it hasn’t escaped his attention that she hasn’t asked how and why he left the Night’s Watch. Maybe she just assumes that it would have been up to whoever was ruling the North to punish him for that desertion.
After he watches her watching the animals, he adds,]
So there’s somewhere else that no one but them ever comes from, might be. Or — out in New Rio, out by the gates, did you see animals with golden eyes? I saw something called a yak at Everest. And I saw wolves.
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I don’t know when he was — [How do you put this?] — I don’t know the last thing to happen to him before he came here. Someone told me that Sansa said to call him — me — Lord Snow, that he’d like it, so it must have been sometime after I became Lord Commander. Did he ever speak of a mutiny?
[Maybe it’s the case: it hasn’t escaped his attention that she hasn’t asked how and why he left the Night’s Watch. Maybe she just assumes that it would have been up to whoever was ruling the North to punish him for that desertion.
After he watches her watching the animals, he adds,]
So there’s somewhere else that no one but them ever comes from, might be. Or — out in New Rio, out by the gates, did you see animals with golden eyes? I saw something called a yak at Everest. And I saw wolves.