The high officers frightened him, Jon knew, the Old Bear most of all. You forget, Ned told him. I thought Stark was yet a day's march away. These plains were a part of them .
The maester is not accustomed to being woken in the night. The stench of the man filled his nose; he smelled of fear. Then Royce's parry came a beat too late. For a moment he was afraid the older man would go for his sword.
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