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It had been so long, it seemed folly to cling to the hope that Ben Stark was still alive, but Jon Snow was nothing if not stubborn. The first star was a comet, burning red. Your father is hunting with the king, Ned said. He slew the Hand of the King! Oh, did I kill him too? Tyrion had said, like a fool.

346 GEORGE R. if Sam Tarly did not betray him. She spied another pair of gold cloaks, walking side by side through the fish market, but they never so much as looked at her. She could not look behind her, must not look behind her.