Jon is sending men out beyond the Wall after what seems like forever. Interestingly enough, Alliser Thorne is one of these men. Each of the men being sent must figure that this is a one way mission. There are many scary enemies out in the forest and the Wildlings are the least scary of them all. I suspect that none of these men will return to the Night's Watch alive though they might return as undead. Melisandre seems to indicate that this is the case at the end of this chapter. I don't think Jon is sending Thorne out in the hopes that he'll die. He knows that Thorne is a good soldier and I doubt he wants any of his men to die even if he doesn't get along with them.
In the practice yard, Jon whoops up on some new recruits and then fights Rattleshirt. What a cool name...Rattleshirt. I could go with a name like that only different. I would go by Jigglepants or something. That's a good one.
So Jon fight Rattleshirt and holds his own for a bit before finally getting taken down. In a real fight, Jon would have died here so it's good that it wasn't a real fight. Rattleshirt is much more beastly than I originally pictured. I guess it's a good thing that he's on their side...for now. At one point, Jon makes a comment to Rattleshirt about Stannis burning the wrong man and Rattleshirt says that Stannis burned the man he had to burn. Maybe I'm reading into that too much, but it almost seems that Jon is saying that Rattleshirt was really the King and Rattleshirt seemed to be agreeing. Was that why Mance screamed the things he screamed when he was burning?
Afterwards, Jon learns about Fakarya marrying Ramsey Bolton and he's none too happy about it, but he can't do anything because he is part of the Night's Watch. It's funny though because Jon could easily point out that, you know, Fakarya is fake if he ever sees her which you think he would eventually. I guess the Bolton's either don't know that he's Lord Commander or they figure that his oath will prevent him from interfering.
At the end of the chapter, Jon speaks with Melisandre. When he first sees her he thinks she is Ygritte. Does that have a deeper meaning? It might. Could Ygritte have been more than she let on? Part of me thinks that she was exactly who she said she was, but anything is possible. I also miss Ygritte. I liked her and Jon together. It feels like so long ago that Jon was with the Wildlings.
Melisandre has seen things in her fire about Arya or someone who she thinks is Arya. I think that Melisandre has power and that it's legitimate, but the person she is talking about can't be Arya because we know where Arya is. So is she mistaken or is there more to what she is saying? A few other interesting things happen here. First, what is with Melisandre and Ghost? Second, it seems like Melisandre wants Jon's hand, but how? In bed? Does she just want his loyalty? How does she want Jon? She offers to save Arya and I can't tell if she means this mystery girl on the horse or the real Arya. I kind of think she means real Arya. This should be interesting.
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