![]() ![]() ![]() "Seven hells." He gave the leashes a hard yank to get the dogs' attention. It was their fault he was here, freezing his bloody balls off with a pack of hounds deep in the haunted forest. ![]() It was the bastard Jon Snow who had taken that from him, him and his fat friend Sam Tarly. I should be safe back at the Wall, tending the bloody ravens and making fires for old Maester Aemon. His mouth twisted, and he could almost feel the boils that covered his cheeks and neck growing red and angry. It was too bloody cold for man or beast, but here they were. Chett felt it too, biting through his layers of black wool and boiled leather. The dogs huddled together miserably on the riverbank as the wind snapped at them. The big black bitch had taken one sniff at the bear tracks, backed off, and skulked back to the pack with her tail between her legs. The day was grey and bitter cold, and the dogs would not take the scent. ![]()
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