Chapter 312

It took them one more week to reach Nightfort.

Just like everyone had told him, the tunnels of the Nightfort had been sealed. And considering how the Long Night was coming, he had no plans to open the tunnels any time soon.

That didn't mean that there wasn't another secret way to go across the Wall.

He was told about this secret path by the Children of the Forest who had helped Bran the Builder in building the Wall.

The secret path led to an underground tunnel where he had to recite the full Nights Watch vows to a gate.

Thankfully, the vow was not binding in any way so anyone could say the vow and the gate will open for them.

Unfortunately, the tunnel was too dark for him and his men to see anything. And he couldn't allow them to bring torches in an underground tunnel due to suffocation problems.

In th end, he had to apparate back to Dreadfort to bring back a few dozen Whale Oil lamps as well as carve a small runic array inside the tunnel that would circulate the air inside it.

The whole think took him a few hours after which they were safely able to cross the tunnel.

When they came out of the other side, the builders and workers were shocked to see people coming out of a secrete gate and became ready to attack them.

But once they saw who he was and the people who were following him, they instantly recognized him and went back to their work.

Once all of them were outside Nightfort, he turned to the women and said "You have two choices now. You can either settle in one of the newly growing villages in the Old and New gifts or you can come and live in the Bolton lands."

The women thought it over and decided to live in his lands.

That was just fine with him.

There were more than a few Free Folk villages in his land and they would fit in any of these villages.

He gave his men the orders to escort these women to Dreadfort before he used his Portkey and took him, Ygritte, Varko and Baka to Dreadfort.