[he assumes 'fresh out' is a joke about the ice cream. he smiles thinly and flexes his burnt hand.]
I'm not asking you to solve our problems for us. If the truth will keep us safer here I don't mind telling it. But everyone in the Seven Kingdoms knows what happened to her father's sister--[he may have just spotted the flaw in this plan. his face reflects this.]...my parents died and her father took me in. That part's true enough. Nobody needs to know any more than that. But I can't promise it'll be so easy if the others turn up.
[he takes a drink of beer.]
You were born into this world.
[it's interesting. nobody on the clock had been. and there's so much here he doesn't understand, he'd better get in with a native.]
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I'm not asking you to solve our problems for us. If the truth will keep us safer here I don't mind telling it. But everyone in the Seven Kingdoms knows what happened to her father's sister--[he may have just spotted the flaw in this plan. his face reflects this.]...my parents died and her father took me in. That part's true enough. Nobody needs to know any more than that. But I can't promise it'll be so easy if the others turn up.
[he takes a drink of beer.]
You were born into this world.
[it's interesting. nobody on the clock had been. and there's so much here he doesn't understand, he'd better get in with a native.]