![]() ![]() The weariness came on him suddenly, as he donned the roughspunblacks that were their everyday wear. He'd beaten every one of them in the yard. All four of them were bigger than he was, but they did not scare him. "I'll break the other one for you if you ask nicely." Grenn was sixteen and a head taller than Jon. If they were real, he thought, they were as cruel and implacable as winter. Castle Black had no godswood, only a small sept and a drunken septon, but Jon could not find it in him to pray to any gods, old or new. If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor. They were brutes and bullies, without a thimble of honor between them. He hardly ever spoke ,to them, if he could help it. ![]() The other two were the ones Yoren had brought north with them, Jon remembered, rapers taken down in the Fingers. He knew Todder, a short ugly boy with an unpleasant voice. Grenn loomed over him, thick of neck and red of face, with three of his friends behind him. "Maybe we'll break you," one of the rapers said. "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. What was he becoming? Afterward he sought out Ghost in the loneliness of his cell, and buried his face in his thick white fur. ![]() His arm was throbbing.Īs he watched his uncle lead his horse into the tunnel, Jon had remembered the things that Tyrion Lannister told him on the kingsroad, and in his mind's eye he saw Ben Stark lying dead, his blood red on the snow. Jon sat heavily on the long wooden bench as the others left, oblivious to the looks they gave him, the silent promises of future retribution. "Try." Jon reached back for his sword, but one of them grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his back. ![]()
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