"It's not. I left my father's house to go to the Wall because my stepmother, my brother's mother, felt like I was less than vermin. She hated me because I was the product of what she assumed was a tryst my father had after he'd married her. I wasn't. I was his late sister's daughter, though she didn't know that, and Catelyn Stark hated me more than anything imaginable. I was tired of feeling it, always, and knowing I was less than my trueborn brothers and sisters. So I left it all behind."

It was more than he'd told anyone that wasn't family, honestly, and since Leah had shared something intimate, Jon wanted to return that favor.