10.Kedge grinned. " A pair of knights. Went riding off an hour ago, south along the kingsroad. When Dywen saw them buggering off, he said the southron fools were riding the wrong way" .
11." Ned's girl, " echoed Big Bucket Wull. " And we should have had her and the castle both if you prancing southron jackanapes didn't piss your satin breeches at a little snow" .
12." Robb will never look on Winterfell again, " Theon promised. " He will break himself on Moat Cailin, as every southron army has done for ten thousand years. We hold the north now, ser" .
13." —is mine, Lord Snow. And I am no southron lady but a woman of the free folk. I know the forest better than all your black-cloaked rangers. It holds no ghosts for me" .
14." What has your southron god to do with snow" ? demanded Artos Flint. His black beard was crusted with ice. " This is the wroth of the old gods come upon us. It is them we should appease" .
15." You are frank, Lady Stark. Very well, I'll answer you frankly. To take the city, I need the power of these southron lords I see across the field. My brother has them. I must needs take them from him."
16." … to defend the Wall, " Jon finished stubbornly, " not as seats for southron lords. The stones of those forts are mortared with the blood and bones of my brothers, long dead. I cannot give them to you" .
17.The snows had finally moved off to the south and given them a respite. There was even a hint of warmth in the air as Jon Snow took a knee before this southron queen. " Your Grace. Castle Black welcomes you and yours" .
18." We drank the sweetest mead the day Craster made me a wife. It was summer then, and not so cold" . Gilly gave him a puzzled look. " Did you only sing of six gods? Craster always told us you southrons had seven" .