I was glad to know him. Privileged to know him. But there were times when he would have chosen to be with his family, if he could have been. From what little I overheard, he didn’t like the idea of you on your own in Essos.
After I was ordered to pretend to desert, I returned to the Watch, and there was no one to tell the officers there that I hadn’t deserted in truth. Lord Commander Mormont had been killed, Qhorin Halfhand had died at my hand on his own orders. Maester Aemon spoke for me, kept them from hanging me. Just before that, he treated my arrow wounds. I would have died of the fever if he hadn’t.
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After I was ordered to pretend to desert, I returned to the Watch, and there was no one to tell the officers there that I hadn’t deserted in truth. Lord Commander Mormont had been killed, Qhorin Halfhand had died at my hand on his own orders. Maester Aemon spoke for me, kept them from hanging me. Just before that, he treated my arrow wounds. I would have died of the fever if he hadn’t.