Editing Monster (section)

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
When the [[Night's Watch]] stops at [[Craster's Keep]] during the [[great ranging]], [[Gilly]] encounters and befriends [[Samwell Tarly]]. She is pregnant with [[Craster]]'s child, and fears that if she gives birth to a son, Craster will sacrifice him to the wood as is done to [[Craster's sons]]. She beseeches Samwell to help her, and Samwell agrees, sending her to [[Jon Snow]], to the annoyance of the latter. Gilly appeals to Jon, but he refuses to help her.{{Ref|ACOK|23}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
After the [[fight at the Fist]], as the [[Night's Watch]] pauses to regroup at Craster's Keep, Gilly gives birth to a son. [[Mutiny at Craster's Keep|Craster is killed]] before he can sacrifice the child, however, and in the confusion Gilly and two of Craster's other wives approach Sam to convince him to take Gilly and the babe. Shortly thereafter Sam, Gilly, and her newborn son flee south.{{Ref|ASOS|33}} Sam sings "[[The Song of the Seven]]" to sooth the tiny baby at [[Whitetree]].{{Ref|ASOS|46}} After arriving at [[Castle Black]], Gilly serves as a wet nurse to the [[wildling prince|newborn son]] of [[Mance Rayder]], the [[King-Beyond-the-Wall]], after his wife, [[Dalla]], dies in childbirth.{{Ref|ASOS|75}}

===''A Feast For Crows''===
Gilly is sent south aboard a ship to [[Oldtown]] (via [[Braavos]]) with Samwell, [[Dareon]], and Maester [[Aemon Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Aemon]], ostensibly with her child. However, Jon Snow, the new [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]], has swapped Gilly's son with Dalla's. This is done to spare the innocent child from [[Melisandre]]'s flames on account of his king's blood, leaving Gilly’s son at the Wall.{{Ref|AFFC|5}}{{Ref|AFFC|15}}

For much of the journey Gilly is overcome with grief at being separated from her child, but after Aemon's death aboard the ''[[Cinnamon Wind]]'' and becoming a lover to Samwell, she recovers.{{Ref|AFFC|35}} Upon their arrival at Oldtown, Gilly is to be sent to Samwell's old home at [[Horn Hill]] with the story that the baby with her—actually Mance and Dalla's child—is the bastard son of Gilly and Sam.{{Ref|AFFC|45}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Stannis is glad that Gilly is leaving the Wall, considering her child to be an abomination born of incest. Since Stannis believes that the infant remaining at Castle Black—actually Gilly's child—is the [[wildling prince|son of Mance and Dalla]], Jon protects the boy by explaining that the [[free folk]] do not have hereditary Kings-Beyond-the-Wall. Melisandre says it is cruel to separate the [[milk brother]]s, and Jon lies that Gilly's son is larger and more robust than Dalla's, kicking and pinching the prince and making it difficult for him to nurse.{{Ref|ADWD|3}}

Jon Snow recalls how he convinced Gilly to secretly take Dalla's baby and leave her own child behind. He has a nightmare that he ripped the babies from her arms and cut their heads off, then swapped the heads and told her to sew them back on.{{Ref|ADWD|7}} Before she leaves, Gilly makes Jon promise to find her son a good wet nurse so that he grows up big and strong. She insists that Jon not name him until he is two years old, to prevent bad luck.{{Ref|ADWD|7}}{{Ref|AFFC|5}}

[[Val]] sings to Gilly's baby and refers to him as a "little monster". Val thinks Melisandre is aware of Jon having switched the boys, and she advises Jon to keep Monster away from the [[red priest]]ess.{{Ref|ADWD|39}} Lords [[Torghen Flint]] and [[Brandon Norrey]] each bring a wet nurse when they travel to Castle Black for the wedding of [[Alys Karstark]] and [[Sigorn]]. Monster thrives under their nursing.{{Ref|ADWD|49}} Val objects to the baby being in the same tower as Princess [[Shireen Baratheon]], a survivor of [[greyscale]].{{Ref|ADWD|53}} [[Leathers]] thinks [[Toregg]] has taken a liking to one of Monster's wet nurses, although Jon thinks Tall Toregg prefers Val.{{Ref|ADWD|69}}