"I know it but only by what I have been told about it. I met a woman called Astrid Hawke who hails from there," Jon explained. He had found Hawke to be engaging and intelligent and, by her estimation, an excellent woman with a bow. Those were things that Jon thought the village could use more of and he'd been happy to have met her.

"Is she someone that you know? I realize that a country might be large and just because you come from the same place it doesn't mean you know one another but this village seems to gather those from similar places."