Ghost ran with them for the time that vanished among the trees.

Without the dire wolf, John felt almost naked.

He found himself glancing at every shadow.

Well, that he could just put flour on himself.

Humbidden, he thought back to the tales that old man used to tell them when he was a boy at Winterfell.

He could almost hear her voice again and the click click of her needles.

In that darkness, the others came riding, she used to say, dropping her voice

lower and lower. Cold and dead they were, and they hated iron and fire in the touch of the sun,

and every living creature with hot blood in its veins, holdfasts and cities and

kingdoms of men all fell before them as they move south on pale dead horses, leading hosts

of the slain. They fed their dead servants on the flesh of human children.

Dot, dot, dot.

Oh, there's finally the tie to the children thing because

Selina, did you remember that at all? I think we talked about it when we were doing the season two episodes, but the actual giving of babies to the White Walkers, remember how, is it Kraster?

There was that shot of him and John followed him

and we know that he was giving away some of his children

to the people with blue eyes. but that's the first actual reference I

remember in the book of of hearing about that because in the show I I sorry in the

book I don't remember reading about it I don don't know. I feel like he talked about it in the book, but I'm doubting myself now, I'm not sure.

Yeah. I maybe it just wasn't overly alluded to the way that apparently it was but I guess maybe I need to read better

So is that where the children in the forest are though the White Walkers ate them all ages ago?

Yeah, no, but... No, the children of the forest aren't really children.

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