They gave the northerners the east wing, which was cold and had a smell, and put two guards on the corridor, which was the politest way anyone has ever told me that my past was locked in a room.
I did not sleep. At the second hour past midnight I went up onto the wall because it was the only place in that house that nobody had decided anything about yet.
Kael was already there.
We stood apart for a while and looked at the dark and the fires out past the gate where the northern horses were picketed.
There is a way two people stand on a wall at night when one of them has decided something he has not said yet, and I had been reading men's shoulders since I was nine, and I could see it on him the way I could see a motor that was running one tooth off.
He had come up in his shirt with no c
