"You have no hope of holding here," the maester FAMILY OF NUDES went on. "If your lord
FAMILY OF NUDES father meant to send you FAMILY OF NUDES aid, he would have done so by now. It is the Neck
that concerns him. The battle for the north will be fought amidst the ruins
of Moat Cailin."
"That may be so," said Theon. "And so long as I hold Winterfell, Ser
Rodrik and Stark's FAMILY OF NUDES lords bannermen cannot march south to take my uncle in
the rear." I am not so innocent of warcraft as you think, old man. "I have
food enough to stand a year's siege, if need be."
&FAMILY OF NUDES quot;There will be no siege. Perhaps they will spend a day or two fashioning
ladders and tying grapnels to the ends of ropes. But soon enough they will
come over your walls FAMILY OF NUDES in a hundred places at once. You may be able FAMILY OF NUDES to hold
the keep for a time, FAMILY OF NUDES but the castle will fall within the hour. You would do
better to open your gates and ask for mercy? I know what kind of mercy they
have for me."
"There is a way."
"I am ironborn,&FAMILY OF NUDES quot; FAMILY OF NUDES Theon reminded him. "I have my own way. What choice have
they left FAMILY OF NUDES me? No, don't answer, FAMILY OF NUDES I've heard enough of your counsel. Go and
send those birds as FAMILY OF NUDES I commanded, and tell Lorren I want to see him. And Wex
as well. I'll have my mail scoured clean, and my FAMILY OF NUDES garrison assembled in the
yard."
For a moment he thought the maester was going to defy him. But finally
Luwin bowed stiffly. "As you command."
They made a FAMILY OF NUDES pitifully small assembly; the ironmen were few, FAMILY OF NUDES the yard
large. "The northmen will be on us before nightfall," he told them. "Ser
Rodrik Cassel and all the lords who have come FAMILY OF NUDES to his call. I will not run
from them. I took this castle and I mean to hold it, to live or die as
Prince of Winterfell. But I will not command any man to die with me. If you
leave now, before Ser Rodrik's main force is upon us, there's still a
FAMILY OF NUDES chance FAMILY OF NUDES you may win free." He FAMILY OF NUDES unsheathed his longsword and drew a line in
the dirt. &
quot;Those