noon
It was a long fight . Stark watched it hungrily from the roof all that morning . The soldiers of Kushat did bravely and well , but they were as folded sheep against the tall killers of the mountains . By noon the officers were beating the Quarters for men to replace the slain . Stark and Balin went up again , onto the Wall . The clans had suffered . Their dead lay in windrows under the Wall , amid the broken ladders .