[His cards add up to more than 21. A risk taken, and he lost, but at least he tried. That's the way, isn't it?
Either he doesn't realize yet that he's lost, or he isn't too troubled by it: a different subject has his attention.]
The Army of the Dead. [Now, that does trouble him. He frowns, and thinks over how to proceed... then proceeds carefully, at first.]
I'm surprised my sister hasn't mentioned it to you, but... she hasn't seen it. Even Northerners are often loath to believe it. Southrons... Tyrion Lannister knows more of history and things in books than most men, cares more than most too, and even he called them "grumkins and snarks." I can't imagine the White Walkers cast any longer a shadow down at Highgarden than they did at Casterly Rock, but they're real, always have been. I don't know why anyone would be fool enough to think that the Wall was only there to keep out Wildlings.
It's why I was going to Daenerys. I don't think we have any hope of defeating them without her armies and her dragons, and a cave full of dragonglass that's said to be located on Dragonstone. But if the North can't stop them, they won't stop at the North. Eventually, they'll be too big to stop, and every living person will become one of them.
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Either he doesn't realize yet that he's lost, or he isn't too troubled by it: a different subject has his attention.]
The Army of the Dead. [Now, that does trouble him. He frowns, and thinks over how to proceed... then proceeds carefully, at first.]
I'm surprised my sister hasn't mentioned it to you, but... she hasn't seen it. Even Northerners are often loath to believe it. Southrons... Tyrion Lannister knows more of history and things in books than most men, cares more than most too, and even he called them "grumkins and snarks." I can't imagine the White Walkers cast any longer a shadow down at Highgarden than they did at Casterly Rock, but they're real, always have been. I don't know why anyone would be fool enough to think that the Wall was only there to keep out Wildlings.
It's why I was going to Daenerys. I don't think we have any hope of defeating them without her armies and her dragons, and a cave full of dragonglass that's said to be located on Dragonstone. But if the North can't stop them, they won't stop at the North. Eventually, they'll be too big to stop, and every living person will become one of them.
-- I know how it sounds.