"It has been this way ever since I have been alive," Jon explained. "The maesters say that it hadn't always been that way, that the seasons may have something to do with the Doom of Valyria but that happened a world away from Westeros. I am not sure how it would affect things even still."

He kept his steps in a narrow path. "Step in my footprints, there will be less snow that way. I was born in winter, I am used to it."