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TYRION Yes... you have more of the north in you than your brothers.
Jon tries to hide his pleasure at this observation.
JON Half brothers.
Tyrion’s mouth is fixed in a sardonic grin, but his eyes burn with intensity as he speaks.
TYRION Let me give you some advice, bastard. Never forget what you are-- the rest of the world will not. Make it your strength, and it can never be your weakness. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.
Jon is in no mood for anyone’s advice.
JON What do you know about being a bastard? TYRION All dwarfs are bastards in their father’s eyes.
Tyrion saunters back into the feast, whistling to himself. When he opens the door, the light from the hall throws Tyrion’s shadow clear across the yard.
INT. CATELYN’S BEDCHAMBER - NIGHT
Ned opens the room’s high narrow windows.
A blast of cold night air blows into the chamber. On the bed, Catelyn pulls the furs up to her chin. Ned breathes deeply, taking the cold into his lungs, staring out into the dark. Then he turns back to face her.
NED I’ll refuse him.
CATELYN You cannot. You must not.
NED You said yourself I could tell him no. I’m a northman.
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