Will could see the tightness around Gared’s mouth, ______________ n his eyes under the thick black hood of his cloak.

Gared did not rise to

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

Will had known they would drag him into the quarrel

“Such __________, Gared,” Ser Waymar observed. “I never suspected you had it in you.”

Under the __________, Will could sense something else in the older man.

Frost-fallen leaves whispered past them, and Royce’s destrier moved ___________.

Mallister freeriders had ____________ in the Mallisters’ own woods, skinning one of the Mallisters’ own bucks, and it had been a choice of putting on the black or losing a hand.

Will shared his ______________. He had been four years on the Wall.

He wished it had been later

He was a handsome youth of eighteen, grey-eyed and graceful and __________as a knife.

Gared had spent forty years in the Night’s Watch, man and boy, and he was not accustomed____________ light of.