It climbed steadily until they were flying through wisps of chilly cloud, and Harry could no longer make out the little colored dots which were cars pouring in and out of the capital.
For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air.
" That little wisp looks like it was just the best he could do, " she thought, not seeing in his face the cold hard intelligence that was carrying the weight of a new nation.
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.
" Here they come, " the female said. Meera, some part of him whispered, some wisp of the sleeping boy lost in the wolf dream. " Did you know they would be so big" ?
" It might be Marq Piper's work, " said Ser Cleos. " Or that wisp o' the wood Beric Dondarrion, though I'd heard he kills only soldiers. Perhaps a band of Roose Bolton's northmen" ?