He looked at his stump and grimaced. They watched from the stable doors, from windows and bridges, frombalconies and roofs. Frey sons, daughters, children, grandchildren, husbands, wives, and servantscrowded the rest of the hall. Mammoths centered the wildling line, he saw, a hundred or more with giants ontheir backs clutching mauls and huge stone axes.
The sand is runningthrough the glass more quickly now, and man's hour on earth is almost done. He took his own good time about it, though, or else the Knight of Flowersproved hard to find. Thefootsteps were coming closer. Many leapt from the steps before they burned, and died from the fall.
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