The Night\u2019s Watch visit Craster\u2019s Keep. Craster provides some information, but one of his pregnant daughter-wives recruits Jon to rescue her from her fate. Jon doesn\u2019t think they can help. Simon and Mackelly ponder Gilly\u2019s future.
Chapter Review:
The Night\u2019s Watch arrive at Craster\u2019s Keep. Lord Commander Jeor Mormont warns all not to interact with Craster\u2019s wives. The keep is awful, little more than a midden heap. Jon Snow joins Mormont in the \u201chall.\u201d The squalid building stinks, and Craster sits in the only chair.
Mormont quizzes Craster about Benjen Stark, but he\u2019s not been through these parts. The last crows Craster has seen were Waymar Royce and crew. Their host knows why the villages are empty. Mance Rayder has been inviting wildlings to join him. He has intel about the King Beyond the Wall and trades it for a new axe.
Outside, Ghost terrorizes a young pregnant girl named Gilly. Jon calls him off. Jon then sets up a tent and makes his own food so that he owes Craster nothing. Later Gilly approaches Jon and ask him to take her when he leaves. If her baby proves to be a boy, Craster will give him to the Others. Jon feels bad, but he cannot help.
As the Night\u2019s Watch leave for the Frostfangs following the map that Sam created with Craster\u2019s help, Jon asks Mormont about Craster\u2019s sons. Mormont admits that the Night\u2019s Watch know that he gives the sons up to the woods. But they don\u2019t have dominion over him.
Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Night's Watch - Men who guard the Seven Kingdoms against threats from beyond the Wall.
Jon Snow - Bastard son of Eddard "Ned" Stark. Recently sworn brother of the Night\u2019s Watch.
Samwell Tarly - Brother of the Night\u2019s Watch. Heavy-set and cowardly. Attendant to Maester Aemon. Friend to Jon Snow.
Ser Jeor Mormont - Lord Commander of the Night\u2019s Watch.
Maester Aemon - One hundred year-old maester of the Night\u2019s Watch.
Ghost - Jon Snow\u2019s direwolf.
Craster - Wildling north of the Wall. He lives with 19 daughter-wives.
Gilly - Pregnant daughter-wife of Craster.
Mance Rayder - Leader of the Wildlings, self-styled King-Beyond-The-Wall.
Thoren Smallwood - Acting first ranger of the Night\u2019s Watch.
Eddison Tollett (Dolorous Edd) - Unhappy member of the Night\u2019s Watch.
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