Thursday, 10 January 2019

ASoS 41: Jon 556

Jon and the Wildlings have crossed the wall and are traipsing through the countryside to the south of it and they stumble upon... well blow me down with a feather if it isn't the very village Bran and friends are holed up in. This is exciting!

Somehow Jon has not yet gone full native and is still trying to figure out a way of escaping from the Wildlings even though he's sad it will mean some of them will die. And he wants to keep Ygritte even though she's a bit annoying and keeps telling him he knows nothing.

Jon sits by the lake and wonders whether he should swim out to the holdfast, and for a moment I imagine that he will meet Bran, have a lovely family reunion, explain everything and either take off with Bran (and Ygritte will understand and go with him) or at least send him on his way with a message for for Castle Black.

But then he is summoned to the Magnar and ordered to kill a defenseless old man. Instead he refuses and Ygritte does it for him. She's not impressed. But then Bran's wolf turns up and starts killing everyone so Jon makes his escape. He seems to have gotten away with it with only a minor flesh wound, too.

Not sure what will become of Ygritte, now. Or what Bran will think of finding his half-brother hanging out with wildlings. But I'm sure it will be dramatic.