“If you think this has a happy ending…” You know the rest. But in the dead-silent moments of Hardhome and The Long Night, something even more unsettling happened: the Night King looked at Jon Snow—and didn’t finish him. Twice. Was it arrogance? Strategy? Prophecy? Let’s track the clues in order and pull apart the cold logic that left Jon alive while the world froze around him.
Season 5’s Hardhome is the origin point of the mystery. Jon cuts down a White Walker with Valyrian steel, the Night King notes it, then steps to the dock and wordlessly raises the dead as Jon escapes by boat.
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