[For a moment, Jon feels a very unfair pang of jealousy. Not just one mother, but two, in a way. He beats that back with a shake of the head.]
I had some I once called my brothers, and meant it. [Sam Tarly and Pyp and Grenn and Dolorous Edd, but he'd sent them all away in the end. He didn't know how he could ask them to die for him if he needed to, or sit in judgment of them fairly without the kinship he felt coloring it.] Though I never knew their families. [Except Sam's through tales, and it certainly wasn't a family he'd have liked to call his own.]
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I had some I once called my brothers, and meant it. [Sam Tarly and Pyp and Grenn and Dolorous Edd, but he'd sent them all away in the end. He didn't know how he could ask them to die for him if he needed to, or sit in judgment of them fairly without the kinship he felt coloring it.] Though I never knew their families. [Except Sam's through tales, and it certainly wasn't a family he'd have liked to call his own.]