[Her unborn son.... That turns his look penetrating, not sure what she means, but still not horrified.
Can he say that Janos Slynt’s death weighed heavy on him? No, and the man had done nothing but refuse an order... but in a way that could have brought the whole Night’s Watch, and then all seven kingdoms, to ruin. He had been a necessary example.
It hadn’t forestalled a mutiny, but it had been necessary.]
And the Army of the Dead. That, too.
[But he says this gently. It’s another thing she’ll have to face.]
This healer might have chosen differently if she’d known she would give you dragons.
[But something about all of this teases at him, prodding at the edges of his mind. The eggs had been old, dead, they must have been, and they had been brought to life in a fire.
He had been dead once too, and the Lord of Light had brought him back, or so it seems. A god he doesn’t believe in - a god of fire.
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Can he say that Janos Slynt’s death weighed heavy on him? No, and the man had done nothing but refuse an order... but in a way that could have brought the whole Night’s Watch, and then all seven kingdoms, to ruin. He had been a necessary example.
It hadn’t forestalled a mutiny, but it had been necessary.]
And the Army of the Dead. That, too.
[But he says this gently. It’s another thing she’ll have to face.]
This healer might have chosen differently if she’d known she would give you dragons.
[But something about all of this teases at him, prodding at the edges of his mind. The eggs had been old, dead, they must have been, and they had been brought to life in a fire.
He had been dead once too, and the Lord of Light had brought him back, or so it seems. A god he doesn’t believe in - a god of fire.
He drinks some ale down in one big gulp.]