Oh, I don't think so -- about the title. [He sounds a little bit rueful, a little bit humorous.] You protect your people differently here, and when I was chosen, it was by my brothers in the Watch, for my deeds. Most of the way you live is new to me.
[Most of it, and yet... he's already beginning to feel that many people must be the same everywhere. Much as the Wildlings are just people like anyone else, some better than others, the same seems to be true of people from other worlds.]
But I thank you for the map. Is there a good time to come by? Even the hours are named differently than I'm used to.
[People are indeed the same everywhere, and in every time; Nick has found that to be more than true time and time again.]
I'm down here now, actually. Just got done with my patrol, so I'll be in for a while.
[He has a lot of paperwork to do, as well as people he needs to check in on. Co-commander of the Guard is just one of the many pots his hands are in these days.]
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Date: 2018-05-11 07:41 am (UTC)[Most of it, and yet... he's already beginning to feel that many people must be the same everywhere. Much as the Wildlings are just people like anyone else, some better than others, the same seems to be true of people from other worlds.]
But I thank you for the map. Is there a good time to come by? Even the hours are named differently than I'm used to.
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Date: 2018-05-11 07:46 am (UTC)I'm down here now, actually. Just got done with my patrol, so I'll be in for a while.
[He has a lot of paperwork to do, as well as people he needs to check in on. Co-commander of the Guard is just one of the many pots his hands are in these days.]