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Post by The Forgotten God on Aug 11, 2015 21:13:48 GMT -5
"Sometimes there ain't," Julia said. "Sometimes there's no good choice."
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Post by Amelia Royce on Aug 12, 2015 7:54:18 GMT -5
Benjen sighed. "I want everyone here readied to march south by this evening." He looked to Bolton. "We'll make for one of the empty castles of the watch. Maybe there's another way across."
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Post by The Forgotten God on Aug 12, 2015 9:32:28 GMT -5
Gerald looks grim. Julia frowned. "If it were that easy these people wouldn't have spent eight thousand years trying to get around it," she said. "They need a fleet or an army." She sighed as she looked over the caves. "You shouldn't have come," she said. "The Grey Man has been watching, I'm sure."
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Post by Amelia Royce on Aug 12, 2015 9:39:06 GMT -5
"We don't have an available fleet for these people, nor an army," Benjen said grimly. "As bad as I would feel leaving people behind we cannot afford Oriax, or the Grey Man, getting more fodder for his army."
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Post by The Forgotten God on Aug 12, 2015 11:31:57 GMT -5
Julia closed her eyes slowly and opened them again. "They will be coming," she said. "We must hurry, now." She sent a man to start rousting the wildlings. "If they come none of us can stop them, slow them, or dissuade them." She looked at him with hopelessness in her icy blue eyes. "I hope there is at least a plan." She stared to the west. "If Eastwatch refuses to help these children will be sent to the warm people. It is worse than even the u death."
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Post by Amelia Royce on Aug 12, 2015 11:41:30 GMT -5
"The Warm People?" Benjen asked, suddenly feeling unnerved about the eye-colour of the woman he was speaking to. "Gather the Wildlings, we'll speak in a moment."
He then turned to have a private conversation with Florent and Bolton. "Florent, are there any stories or tales about another way through the Wall among the Black Brothers?"
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Post by The Forgotten God on Aug 12, 2015 13:44:57 GMT -5
"Ordinarily we could use the Nightfort," he said. "But we don't trust the garrison Commander Lannister has there." Julia frowned.
"The Warm People are the living who have surrendered to Oriax and his lusts of the flesh." She shuddered. "Despite the rumors the ignorant tel he is still a man."
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Post by Amelia Royce on Aug 12, 2015 14:02:23 GMT -5
"We might have to risk it," Benjen said, looking over the people that were slowly appearing. "How big is the garrison at the Nightfort?"
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Post by The Forgotten God on Aug 12, 2015 14:13:59 GMT -5
"A hundred or so, with some ranging all the time," Orys said. "I'd say seventy in the place at any given time."
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Post by Amelia Royce on Aug 12, 2015 14:17:46 GMT -5
"And what does this passage at the Nightfort look like?" Benjen asked, knowing already that there would be no way to get any giants across. He doubted it would be that big.
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Post by The Forgotten God on Aug 12, 2015 14:27:06 GMT -5
"It looks like the Wall. We thought the old story about it only opening for us was bullshit, but by the gods it really is that way." He shook his head. "It's two hundred miles though."
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Post by Amelia Royce on Aug 12, 2015 15:24:27 GMT -5
"A tough march but better than becoming one of Oriax's wights," Benjen said, not looking forward to the march himself. "Can you locate where the opening is?"
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Post by The Forgotten God on Aug 12, 2015 15:27:59 GMT -5
"Of course," he said. "Went through it once. Any of us," he gestures to the brothers, "can find it. What's the plan when we get south of the Wall? I somehow doubt the chase will end," he frowned as he looked about. "but if we're going best not waste time."
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Post by Amelia Royce on Aug 12, 2015 20:09:02 GMT -5
"How close is this gap to the Nightfort? Will we be within sight?" Benjen asked. "If not then we sneak through at night in small groups."
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Post by The Forgotten God on Aug 12, 2015 20:12:19 GMT -5
"It goes pretty much right through the castle," Orys admitted. "If they want to fight it'll be a fight, no stopping that."
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