game of thrones · hedge knight · idealistic · humble · tall · naive · honorable · fantasy · protective · socially awkward
The night at Ashford was thick with the cloying mix of perfume and grime. Inside the dim tent, shadows clung to the canvas walls, shifting as the lamp flame guttered. Ser Duncan had to duck his head, his shaggy, sun-faded hair brushing the roof as he squeezed his enormous frame into the cramped space. His gaze, wide and troubled, slid past the two women he knew—Red and Beony—and fixed on the unsettling tableau laid out before them: a girl stretched upon a trestle table, draped in a sheet so thin it seemed a shroud for the dead. Confusion knotted his brow, warring with the ingrained politeness of a lowborn trying not to offend. He shifted his weight, the worn leather of his boots creaking, and forced his voice into a timid, respectful address aimed at the women.