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//-->Version History:2.0 - Reedited 4/25/10 by maelstrom3851.0 - Scanned 3/5/02 by sliph*missing appendix sectionBook One: A Song of Ice and FireGeorge R.R. MartinPROLOGUE“We should start back,” Gared urged as the woods began togrow dark around them. “The wildlings are dead.”“Do the dead frighten you?” Ser Waymar Royce asked withjust the hint of a smile.Gared did not rise to the bait. He was an old man, past fifty,and he had seen the lordlings come and go. “Dead is dead,”he said. “We have no business with the dead.”“Are they dead?” Royce asked softly. “What proof have we?”“Will saw them,” Gared said. “If he says they are dead, that’sproof enough for me.” Will had known they would drag himinto the quarrel sooner or later. He wished it had been laterrather than sooner. “My mother told me that dead men singno songs,” he put in.“My wet nurse said the same thing, Will,” Royce replied.“Never believe anything you hear at a woman’s tit. There arethings to be learned even from the dead.” His voice echoed,too loud in the twilit forest.“We have a long ride before us,” Gared pointed out. “Eightdays, maybe nine. And night is falling.”Ser Waymar Royce glanced at the sky with disinterest. “Itdoes that every day about this time.Are you unmanned by the dark, Gared?” [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]