Chapter 38

Jonny had once been a smallfolk man of Karhold, scraping together a living for his family as a tenant farmer under House Karstark.

But a few years ago, he had the misfortune of offending a knight. Not only was he beaten senseless—he was stripped of his right to hold land as a tenant.

From that day on, he became a homeless vagrant, wandering from place to place. His only younger brother starved to death on the road.