Sam is trudging South with Gilly and her baby on a horse, trying to find the wall and Castle Black but no idea where it is other than south. It's cold (but not raining). They take shelter in an abandoned village (a lot of that going on right now).
At night they are woken by the zombie of Small Paul. Sam manages to shatter his obsidian dagger on Paul's chain mail but kills him with fire instead. Still not a coward, then.
But outside there are lots more wights. Luckily they are attacked by ravens controlled by a mysterious animal-controlling warg riding a stag. He rescues Sam and Gilly, but he has weird hands. Is he a man at all? Is he the warg Bran is seeking?
