Down below, the lordling called out suddenly, " Who goes there? " Will heard uncertainty in the challenge. He stopped climbing; he listened; he watched.
" You can have eggs when Mya comes, as many as you like, " Alayne promised the little lordling. " She'll bring eggs and butter and melons, all sorts of tasty things" .
" What's happened" ? demanded a woman she knew slightly, the wife of a lesser lordling. " What did Osney tell her? Is the king hurt, has the city fallen" ?
Osha grinned. The boy's the lordling here, as I recall. She handed Luwin back his torch and scooped Bran up into her arms again. The maester's tower it is.
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.
Weeping, Will said, frowning. He saw it clear enough, now that the lordling had pointed it out. " They couldn't have froze. Not if the Wall was weeping. It wasn't cold enough. "
" And so it did" . And some knights and lordlings too. " Well, you gave the singers something to make rhymes about, I suppose that's not to be despised. What did you do with Renly" ?
" It's only a towerhouse. Some little lordling lived there once, with his family and a few sworn men. When raiders came he would light a beacon from the roof. Winterfell has towers three times the size of that" .
Gendry frowned. " Knights and lordlings, they take each other captive and pay ransoms, but they don't care if the likes of you yield or not" . He turned to Arya. " What else did you see" ?
Tyrion found Prince Oberyn drinking a cup of red wine as he donned his armor. He was attended by four of his younger Dornish lordlings. " Good morrow to you, my lord, " the prince said. " Will you take a cup of wine" ?