Never, said the grass, in the gruff tones of Jorah Mormont. You were warned, Your Grace. Let this city be, I said. Your war is in Westeros, I told you.
But he adored them both-his gruff but gentle father (" hands as thick as strip steaks" ) and his melancholic wisp of a mother, who was wooed to Loyalty but never fitted in.
For example, when a rather gruff, distant father shows vulnerability, “I'm proud of you, Flint. I'm amazed that someone as ordinary as me could be the father of someone as extraordinary as you.”
" Sisters, " Alysane Mormont replied, gruff as ever. " Five, we were. All girls. Lyanna is back on Bear Island. Lyra and Jory are with our mother. Dacey was murdered" .