[He likes how firm her grip on his arm is, but when she comments on his name, his expression becomes more inward and ambivalent.]

And not only because Ghost is white. Aye, well, Snow is a bastard name in the North, where I come from. Bastards cannot have their fathers’ names, but if a highborn father acknowledges the child as his own, the child is given a bastard name. Each of the kingdoms has its own: Flowers for the Reach, Stone for the Vale, and so on. It lets people know what you are. [His jaw sets a little at that.] I don’t think a man’s birth tells anyone much about who he is.