“Give my regards to the Night’s Watch. I’m sure it will be thrilling to serve in such an elite force. And if not…it’s only for life.”

was it war that had made him grow so fast, or the crown they had put on his head?

Gendry turned the breastplate with the tongs to look at it closely. “And if we did escape, where would we go?”

“Winterfell,” she said at once. “I’d tell Mother how you helped me, and you could stay—”

“Would m’lady permit? Could I shoe your horses for you, and make swords for your lordly brothers?”

Sometimes he made her so angry. “You stop that!”