⊰ onlydiie ⊱

                   qhorin nods. so soon indeed. the watch is not what it once was && there are rangers gone missing. not to mention the old bear SUSPECTS mance rayder is plotting a thing, and mormont’s usually right.  ❛ no. lord commander mormont intends to STRENGTHEN the numbers on the wall.  ❜

                  they don’t have the numbers, nor the resources to open another castle. a PAINFUL thing && if it depended on him, he would’ve done something. but he knows the old bear is trying his best.  ❛ there are many, all sealed, but it consumes many resources to put them in use again. resources we do not have. ❜

          Bran would delight to hear such tales; if this black brother stayed to sup at Winterfell no doubt the young boy would spend hours pleading for another gruff regaling of those stories Old Nan had told a thousand times. Yet even she felt important now, privy to an officer’s plans, no matter how trivial or public such knowledge might prove to be. 

             “Oh, but Father would find great displeasure in hearing of the Watch’s woes.” Every Starkling knew the men who manned the Wall stood great friends to the realm, and to Winterfell in turn; though Sansa suspected such great respect came partly from knowing her half-brother would one day take his solemn vows amongst their number, she revered them all the same. “We Starks have ever considered ourselves staunch allies to the Watch; he would wish to give whatever aid he could.”