"It made little enough sense to adhere to many of them back home," Robb pointed out. All of the Starks all might be alive yet were it not for the folly of their Northern honor. "I only wish I'd been wise enough to see that at the time." He certainly wouldn't have called himself wise now, but death had been a swift and ruthless teacher, that much was for certain.

"I don't want to be cross with you—" he began again, and then stopped. "I'm not, really. But there are a great many things I think we all might change had we the opportunity to live them again."