They said he’d been the best of his kind. The last straight edge. Closest friend to the Bloody-Nine, worst enemy to Black Dow, who’d fought for Bethod and fought against him, across the North and back. Red Hat shouted out a story about the fight in the High Places. Oxel barked one about the Siege of Adua. Hardbread talked of the Battle of Osrung, folk murmuring with every famous name – Curnden Craw and Whirrun of Bligh and Cairm Ironhead and Glama
