Jon remembers the day Ned Stark left him on the cold fells with one last parting promise, "Next time we meet, lad, I'll tell you about your mother."

Now Ned Stark rots in King's Landing, and his bones have forgotten the promise they once made.

But Jon Snow's eyes are dark as tarns, and the Starks' eyes are pale like their wolves, so he searches everywhere he goes for a woman with the same dark eyes as him.

He never finds her.