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If dark the night, be the light (when all other lights go out) by harrenhals
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
24 Apr 2026
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"You ask, who will answer? / In need, who will come? / When the last line is broken / When the day is all but done." - The Rider, Paris Paloma
The howls start at dusk.
Isn’t that always how it goes? When Nell was small she would curl up next to Helicent, smelling flour and apple cider, and every story the old nurse-maid told would start it was a cold, dark night, or a man found himself at a crossroads, at dusk. Always night. Monsters can only come out at night.
But these aren’t monsters howling outside the walls of Ashemark, only men.
(In which the Young Wolf takes the seat of House Marbrand.)