Maybe the ungrateful masses here might be slightly less ungrateful. [A pause.] And I've known worse than someone who'd rather be on a beach than in a battlefield.
[And anyway, Anders is here, isn't he? As much as he claims not to be "good sorts", that it didn't take Jon very much to get him to come along also says a lot, at least to Jon himself. He's not even Lord Commander here, Anders could've easily told him to go away and he wouldn't have been able to do anything about it.]
[He couldn't get his hopes up that after years and years in a culture that cared to have him locked away, he was suddenly finding himself in a place that couldn't care less if his hands glowed or not. It seemed too 'storybook ending' for his slightly less optimistic views.]
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[And anyway, Anders is here, isn't he? As much as he claims not to be "good sorts", that it didn't take Jon very much to get him to come along also says a lot, at least to Jon himself. He's not even Lord Commander here, Anders could've easily told him to go away and he wouldn't have been able to do anything about it.]
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[He couldn't get his hopes up that after years and years in a culture that cared to have him locked away, he was suddenly finding himself in a place that couldn't care less if his hands glowed or not. It seemed too 'storybook ending' for his slightly less optimistic views.]