Opening post by Ser Aldric Mallery · #1
Thirty years of this and the same mistake every spring. This will not help anybody take a seat, and I am posting it anyway. Winter nights are long and the board is quiet.
The question, put plainly: what the Others actually want, if they want anything. I think it will turn out to be simpler and sadder than the songs have it.
The thing that unsettles me is that the people best placed to know went to considerable trouble to leave no record. Men do not do that over nothing.
Do it properly the first time. I did not.