It looks as if there’s some miscommunication in the Night’s Watch. Just as Jon is sent on his assassination suicide mission rangers attack the wildling camp!
I think the gorse bushes the Rangers wade through are what makes this one work for me.
Slow as honey on a cold morning, the rangers swept down on the wildling camp, picking their way through clumps of gorse and stands of trees, over roots and rocks. Wildlings flew to meet them, shouting war cries and waving clubs and bronze swords and axes made of flint, galloping headlong at their ancient enemies. A shout, a slash, and a fine brave death, Jon had heard brothers say of the free folk’s way of fighting. Jon pg 1022
