[Jon gives his head a slight bewildered shake. He has not heard of Ravka, but what Lantsov tells him is illuminating enough.]

I wish we could go further, but I'm not always sure where I would go. Ranging up in the mountains, might be.

We are not so much like Thorne at Winterfell. It's still a castle, but we stand less on ceremony in the North than they do here. Not so hard to get the king's ear. I have not seen King's Landing, down south, but everything I've heard of it sounded like Thorne. [A pause, then he adds,] I'll grant that the queen of Thorne isn't such a madwoman as Cersei.