Cutting her off, "You have been very brave and clever, Arya. There were rumors that your whereabouts were unknown to the Lannisters, and clearly they were true." It was probably for the better than she had been such a tomboy and learning all of Bran's lessons beyond her own.
Finally meeting her eyes, his features are serious, falling back under his stoic veil, though underneath he was close to crumbling himself as he did before his mother at the news of father's death.
"I need you to stay strong. Winterfell is in ruin, our bannermen are limited, our family..." He didn't want to stay it, "is naught but you and me." Bran an Rickon were burned thanks to traitorous Theon, and Sansa was lost to the Lannisters as far as he was aware.
"Mother died at the Twins where I should've died too..." He had passed out before her murder, but had learned the gruesome details far later. And then there was Talisa with his own heir inside her taken away from him too, causing him to look away, resisting his own tears threatening to fall.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2015-03-30 05:02 pm (UTC)Finally meeting her eyes, his features are serious, falling back under his stoic veil, though underneath he was close to crumbling himself as he did before his mother at the news of father's death.
"I need you to stay strong. Winterfell is in ruin, our bannermen are limited, our family..." He didn't want to stay it, "is naught but you and me." Bran an Rickon were burned thanks to traitorous Theon, and Sansa was lost to the Lannisters as far as he was aware.
"Mother died at the Twins where I should've died too..." He had passed out before her murder, but had learned the gruesome details far later. And then there was Talisa with his own heir inside her taken away from him too, causing him to look away, resisting his own tears threatening to fall.