All right, [he says, capitulating a little, sounding sorrowful himself,] all right. I know what happened -- I wanted to be sure you did. It would have been worse if you didn't know.
[The memory of telling Daenerys about Viserion is still fresh in his mind, and it had seemed like a particular cruelty at the time, something that shouldn't have had to pass between them.
This girl, Jeyne, is little to him in comparison, except for a Westerosi girl in need of help, but he still doesn't want to distress her any further than he has to. He glances around for something to offer her to wipe her tears, but he doesn't have anything.]
I'm older than you might expect because Robb's been dead for years. That happens here sometimes... some people from the same place remember more than others do.
[But do they remember differently? Robb's wife had gone to that wedding with him; she had died there too, and so had Lady Stark. Then the Freys had paraded Robb's body around with Grey Wind's head attached to it. It had been a personal disaster to Jon, the loss of another brother, but enough Northern troops had been slaughtered there that the Red Wedding had also had the delayed effect of seriously hampering the North's ability to fight the Army of the Dead.
Jon turns this over in his mind, this matter of Robb's wife, and his expression, while less skeptical than it had been, remains troubled. Jeyne doesn't yet strike him as false, yet what she's telling him conflicts with what he knows.]
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[The memory of telling Daenerys about Viserion is still fresh in his mind, and it had seemed like a particular cruelty at the time, something that shouldn't have had to pass between them.
This girl, Jeyne, is little to him in comparison, except for a Westerosi girl in need of help, but he still doesn't want to distress her any further than he has to. He glances around for something to offer her to wipe her tears, but he doesn't have anything.]
I'm older than you might expect because Robb's been dead for years. That happens here sometimes... some people from the same place remember more than others do.
[But do they remember differently? Robb's wife had gone to that wedding with him; she had died there too, and so had Lady Stark. Then the Freys had paraded Robb's body around with Grey Wind's head attached to it. It had been a personal disaster to Jon, the loss of another brother, but enough Northern troops had been slaughtered there that the Red Wedding had also had the delayed effect of seriously hampering the North's ability to fight the Army of the Dead.
Jon turns this over in his mind, this matter of Robb's wife, and his expression, while less skeptical than it had been, remains troubled. Jeyne doesn't yet strike him as false, yet what she's telling him conflicts with what he knows.]