[Surprising bitterness and tiredness in how he says it, particularly for a man of his years. It isn't the eight centuries they had lived, some of which he hardly remembers, and some of which he remembers quite well. It's that he sees the same foolishness here that he does back in Westeros. What would they do against a true threat, one that held no care for whether a man lived in Thorne or the Free Cities or Solvunn? One that saw all of them the same and wished to crush them all the same, as what he faces at home does? The new king in Thorne might be a better king than his niece had been a queen, that remains to be seen, but his way of taking the throne had involved needless aggression against Solvunn and the Free Cities, when the time may still come one day when they all need to work together. He has not seen much evidence of that, but he hopes to the gods with the way the people here go on that he never will.]
I am tired of fighting. I've been tired of fighting for so long. I'm glad you had the digging to occupy you. Glad they're letting us out of the city now in Thorne now, too -- I feel a little more myself out in the wilds. Castle Thorne isn't much like Winterfell, it is -- well, I never saw King's Landing. Winterfell is a wilder place, Castle Black wilder still, in its way.
[OOC: OOPS. Let's pretend I didn't get the timeline confused and think this all happened in early July Nocwich when it's actually happening in early August Nocwich! No big deal, just insert one more Nocwich meeting than I said a tag or two back and assume Jon has been taking time out of his busy horse-capturing schedule for this hangout time, etc.]
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[Surprising bitterness and tiredness in how he says it, particularly for a man of his years. It isn't the eight centuries they had lived, some of which he hardly remembers, and some of which he remembers quite well. It's that he sees the same foolishness here that he does back in Westeros. What would they do against a true threat, one that held no care for whether a man lived in Thorne or the Free Cities or Solvunn? One that saw all of them the same and wished to crush them all the same, as what he faces at home does? The new king in Thorne might be a better king than his niece had been a queen, that remains to be seen, but his way of taking the throne had involved needless aggression against Solvunn and the Free Cities, when the time may still come one day when they all need to work together. He has not seen much evidence of that, but he hopes to the gods with the way the people here go on that he never will.]
I am tired of fighting. I've been tired of fighting for so long. I'm glad you had the digging to occupy you. Glad they're letting us out of the city now in Thorne now, too -- I feel a little more myself out in the wilds. Castle Thorne isn't much like Winterfell, it is -- well, I never saw King's Landing. Winterfell is a wilder place, Castle Black wilder still, in its way.
[OOC: OOPS. Let's pretend I didn't get the timeline confused and think this all happened in early July Nocwich when it's actually happening in early August Nocwich! No big deal, just insert one more Nocwich meeting than I said a tag or two back and assume Jon has been taking time out of his busy horse-capturing schedule for this hangout time, etc.]