And Arya he missed her even more than Robb, skinny little thing that she was, all scraped knees and tangled hair and torn clothes, so fierce and willful. He missed the girls too, even Sansa, who never called him anything but "my half brother" since she was old enough to understand what bastard meant. He missed his true brothers: little Rickon, bright eyes shining as he begged for a sweet Robb, his rival and best friend and constant companion Bran, stubborn and curious, always wanting to follow and join in whatever Jon and Robb were doing. "How often must I tell you no, Jon? We'll speak when I return." Ben Stark smiled at that, but he had no smile for his nephew. One of his rangers, a big ugly man, sang a bawdy song as he saddled his garron, his breath steaming in the cold morning air. Jon rose at dawn the next day to watch his uncle leave. "Maybe we'll break you," one of the rapers said. Your father will always have a place in my heart, but these are my brothers now." He gestured with his dagger at the men around them, all the hard cold men in black. We put aside our old families when we swear our vows. If you thought your Stark blood would win you easy favors, you were wrong. "A boy you are, and a boy you'll remain until Ser Alliser says you are fit to be a man of the Night's Watch. "He broke my wrist," Grenn said again, holding it out to Noye for inspection.īenjen Stark frowned. Pain lanced through him, but Jon would not cry out. The boy who had his arm jerked upward on him, hard. "You looked bad before I ever met you," Jon told him. There was scant warmth to be found in Castle Black the walls were cold here, and the people colder. So cold, he thought, remembering the warm halls of Winterfell, where the hot waters ran through the walls like blood through a man's body. He sat on a bench, his fingers fumbling with the fastenings on his cloak. The weariness came on him suddenly, as he donned the roughspunblacks that were their everyday wear. "Try." Jon reached back for his sword, but one of them grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his back.
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