A GAME OF THRONES By George R.R. Martin

George Raymond Richard Martin (born September 20, 1948), sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, his bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of Thrones. Martin was selected by Time magazine as one of the "2011 Time 100", a list of the "most influential people in the world".


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We should start back,” Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. “The

wildlings are dead.”

“Do the dead frighten you?” Ser Waymar Royce asked with just the hint of a smile.

Gared did not rise to the bait. He was an old man, past fifty, and he had seen the

lordlings come and go. “Dead is dead,” he said. “We have no business with the dead.”

“Are they dead?” Royce asked softly. “What proof have we?”

“Will saw them,” Gared said. “If he says they are dead, that’s proof enough for me.”

Will had known they would drag him into the quarrel sooner or later. He wished it had

been later rather than sooner. “My mother told me that dead men sing no songs,” he put

in.

“My wet nurse said the same thing, Will,” Royce replied. “Never believe anything you

hear at a woman’s tit. There are things to be learned even from the dead.” His voice

echoed, too loud in the twilit forest.

“We have a long ride before us,” Gared pointed out. “Eight days, maybe nine. And night

is falling.”

Ser Waymar Royce glanced at the sky with disinterest. “It does that every day about this

time. Are you unmanned by the dark, Gared?”

Will could see the tightness around Gared’s mouth, the barely suppressed anger in his

eyes under the thick black hood of his cloak. Gared had spent forty years in the Night’s

Watch, man and boy, and he was not accustomed to being made light of. Yet it was more

than that. Under the wounded pride, Will could sense something else in the older man.

You could taste it; a nervous tension that came perilous close to fear.

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