Will had known they would drag him into the quarrel
sooner or later.
15
He wished it had been later
rather than sooner.
15
Will could see the tightness around Gared’s mouth, ______________ n his eyes under the thick black hood of his cloak.
the barely suppressed anger i
15
Gared had spent forty years in the Night’s Watch, man and boy, and he was not accustomed____________ light of.
to being made
15
Under the __________, Will could sense something else in the older man.
wounded pride
15
You could taste it; a nervous __________that came perilous close to fear.
tension
15
Will shared his ______________. He had been four years on the Wall.
unease
15
He was a handsome youth of eighteen, grey-eyed and graceful and __________as a knife.
slender
15
It is hard to take orders from a man you laughed at _______, Will reflected as he sat shivering atop his garron.
in your cups
15
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.
caught him red-handed
15
Frost-fallen leaves whispered past them, and Royce’s destrier moved ___________.
restlessly
15
“Such __________, Gared,” Ser Waymar observed. “I never suspected you had it in you.”