Drabble_weekly Challenge 94 - Lacking

[m_findlow]

Title: Lacking
Fandom: Game of Thrones
Author: m_findlow
Characters/Pairing: Jon Snow, Quorin Halfhand
Rating: PG
Challenge: 94 - Hungry at drabble_weekly
Warnings: none
Spoilers: none
Summary: Adventures north of the Wall are nothing like what Jon expected. A double drabble.

'You hungry, boy?' Quorin Halfhand asked him as he huddled there on the ground, night sweeping across the sky. It hardly felt like night, though. The moon glowed brightly and lit up the snow all around them making it appear as bright as day.

Jon was starving but it felt like a trick question, just as most had been so far. Quorin Halfhand liked to confuse him with questions he thought he had the right answers for, only to be corrected. He opted for honesty.

'Yes,' he replied. The dried salted pork and hard biscuits were long gone, left far south near the Fist of the First Men. How the Halfhand had survived months out here with nothing but snow was beyond him.

'Good,' Quorin replied. 'Cold as well, I imagine.' Jon nodded. There'd been no fires since they’d left their brothers. As well light a beacon for Wildlings to come attack them. They could be ten miles away, or just over the next ridge.

'Hungry and cold is the only way to survive out here, boy. Summer lads who stuff themselves full of food and curl up under nice warm furs at night don’t wake up come the morning.'