The wildlings might have fallen on him anywhere. The right side of his face was gaunt, with sharp cheekbones and a grey eye beneath a heavy brow. Ned turned away from her, back to the night. The gods are cruel.
The girl was too frightened to send off by herself, though, so I offered to take her to the closest inn and feed her while my brother rode back to the Rock for help. He looked behind him frequently as they made their way through the crowded city streets. Lord Tywin never smiled, but Tyrion had learned to read his father's pleasure all the same, and it was there on his face. She found herself standing at the mouth of a sewer where it emptied into the river.
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