[To the bit about taking the black or losing a hand, he only gives her a significant look, eyebrows raised.
In retrospect, many would choose the hand. It had been that sort who had mutinied at Craster's Keep and killed the Old Bear. And even among those who would choose the Watch, most hadn't come willingly, as he had.
-- Sometimes COST and these days at BASE make him think overwhelmingly of Pyp and Grenn and how bravely they'd died, even though their laughing faces have faded a little.
The conversation moves on to the subject of Jeyne Westerling.]
She wouldn't have joined COST knowing that we were here... would she have? It's true enough that the Lannisters held Sansa after Robert's death: Tyrion married her. But I think if Robb had been held, they would have just killed him then.
[His expression turns curious when she mentions not just his brothers, but her own.
What has he heard of them? Nothing good.]
We don't really have any other choice. There's Grothia to deal with. Maybe Chiron can shed some light on it.
[But that's not really why Jeyne will get her chance from him. Even if she takes the Lannister side, even if he has to be wary of that, even if she's lying about his brother, sides matter less and less to Jon these days. For now, he has to think of her as being on the same side.]
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In retrospect, many would choose the hand. It had been that sort who had mutinied at Craster's Keep and killed the Old Bear. And even among those who would choose the Watch, most hadn't come willingly, as he had.
-- Sometimes COST and these days at BASE make him think overwhelmingly of Pyp and Grenn and how bravely they'd died, even though their laughing faces have faded a little.
The conversation moves on to the subject of Jeyne Westerling.]
She wouldn't have joined COST knowing that we were here... would she have? It's true enough that the Lannisters held Sansa after Robert's death: Tyrion married her. But I think if Robb had been held, they would have just killed him then.
[His expression turns curious when she mentions not just his brothers, but her own.
What has he heard of them? Nothing good.]
We don't really have any other choice. There's Grothia to deal with. Maybe Chiron can shed some light on it.
[But that's not really why Jeyne will get her chance from him. Even if she takes the Lannister side, even if he has to be wary of that, even if she's lying about his brother, sides matter less and less to Jon these days. For now, he has to think of her as being on the same side.]