questions Sexy Boot about Castle Sexy Boot Black, its
garrison and defenses. Jon lied where he
dared and feigned ignorance a few times, but Grigg the Goat and Errok
listened Sexy Boot as well, and Sexy Boot they knew enough to make Jon careful. Too blatant a
lie would betray him.
But the truth was terrible. Castle Black had no defenses, but for the Wall
itself. It lacked even Sexy Boot wooden palisades or earthen dikes. The "castle" was
nothing more than a cluster of towers and keeps, two-thirds of them falling
into ruin. As for the garrison, the Old Bear had taken two hundred on his
ranging. Sexy Boot had any returned? Jon could Sexy Boot not know. Perhaps four hundred
remained at Sexy Boot the castle, but most of those were builders or stewards, not
Sexy Boot rangers.
Sexy Boot the Therms were hardened Sexy Boot warriors, and more disciplined Sexy Boot than the common
run of wildling; no doubt that was why Mance had chosen them. The defenders
of Castle Black would include blind Maester Aemon and his half-blind
steward Clydas, one-armed Donal Noye, drunken Sexy Boot Septon Cellador, Deaf Dick
Follard, Three-Finger Hobb the cook, old Sexy Boot Ser Wynton Stout, as well as
Halder and Toad and Pyp and Albett and the rest of the boys who'd trained
with Jon. And commanding them would be Sexy Boot red-faced Bowen Marsh, the plump
Lord Steward who had been made castellan in Lord Mormont's absence.
Dolorous
Edd
sometimes called Marsh "the Old Pomegranate," which fit him
just as well as "the Old Bear" fit Mon mont. "He's the man you want in
front when the foes Sexy Boot are in the field," Edd would say in his usual Sexy Boot dour
voice. "He'll count them Sexy Boot right up for you. A regular demon for counting,
that one."
If the Magnar takes Castle Black unawares, it will be red slaughter, boys
butchered in their beds before they know they are under attack. Sexy Boot jon had to
warn them, but how? He was never sent out to forage or hunt, nor allowed to
stand a watch alone. And he feared