The old man had taught Dunk all he knew of swords and shields and lances, but had never been much good at teaching him words. There ought to be a septon here, to say some prayers over him, but he only has me. The smell of rain was in the air again, and he knew he ought to fill the hole before it broke, but it was hard to throw dirt down on that tired old face. He laid him out in the bottom of the grave and stood over him for a time. He had always been generous in his praise. The old man had often praised his strength. Dunk was hugely tall for his age, a shambling, shaggy, big-boned boy of sixteen or seventeen years (no one was quite certain which) who stood closer to seven feet than to six, and had only just begun to fill out his frame. He had been a small man, and slim stripped of hauberk, helm, and sword belt, he seemed to weigh no more than a bag of leaves. When the hole was deep enough, he lifted the old man’s body in his arms and carried him there. Off to Ashford to see the fair maid, heigh-ho, heigh-ho, Dunk thought miserably as he dug. Only a few days past, he had been singing as they rode, the old song about going to Gulltown to see a fair maid, but instead of Gulltown he’d sung of Ashford. By the fourth day the old man was too weak to ride. Well, one morrow had brought rains that soaked them to the bones, and the one after had brought wet, gusty winds, and the next a chill. “Another day done”-he would sigh-“and who knows what the morrow will bring us, eh, Dunk?” He chose a spot on the western slope of a low hill, for the old man had always loved to watch the sunset. The spring rains had softened the ground, so Dunk had no trouble digging the grave. The story offered here takes place about a hundred years prior to the events described in A Game of Thrones. To Raya Golden, for the cheerful smiles and pretty picturesįor the noble cause and the Ser Dunk in all of us No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.Įbook Edition © October 2017 ISBN: 9780007500413 By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.Īll rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. This novel is entirely a work of fiction. Illustrations copyright © Gary Gianni 2015Ī catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library Martin asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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