"And the Wall is as self-explanatory as it sounds? A border and you're the border patrol?" It was a simplistic comparison, but it would get the point across, he thought. "Can't say we have much of a problem with 'Wildlings' or giants where I'm from." After a pause, he added, "As far as I know."

Time spent here made him feel like he knew a lot less than he'd thought.

"Six years isn't chump change. Is it true what they say, you can take the soldier out of the fight, but you can't take the fight out of the soldier?" he said, lifting his eyebrows. How was someone like Jon finding the adjustment? Saying it was ten shades of strange was probably still a bit of an understatement when the town itself was strange as all hell.