Gwilem looked at Kage. "Hell if I know. Far as I'm concerned, best bet is to keep your head down and do as you're told. If you're lucky, you won't even need to go over the wall. They can't damn well send every poor sod in the garrison over." Gwilem looked at the young man. He was younger than himself, just making his first voyage into adolescence. "Don't be so eager to put your life on the line. Live a bit before you find yourself dying." 
The youth of the wall unnerved him. He was only so young himself, but the only person he had met older than him had been the black- haired woman and the captain himself.