ASOS Sansa VI: The Merling King and the Drearfort
Mar 13, 2016 20:48:13 GMT
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Post by SlyWren on Mar 13, 2016 20:48:13 GMT
"But . . . my lord, you said . . . you said we were sailing home."
Arya, too , thinks her rescuers (Yoren, Beric) will get her home. So, did Lyanna ask the same question? And get a similar answer?
"And there it stands, miserable as it is. My ancestral home.
Like Dragonstone? Or Starfall?
It has no name, I fear. A great lord's seat ought to have a name, wouldn't you agree? Winterfell, the Eyrie, Riverrun, those are castles. Lord of Harrenhal now, that has a sweet ring to it, but what was I before? Lord of Sheepshit and Master of the Drearfort? It lacks a certain something."
Well, Lysa will be MORE than happy to call it the tower of joy.
His grey-green eyes regarded her innocently. "You look distraught. Did you think we were making for Winterfell, sweetling? Winterfell has been taken, burned, and sacked. All those you knew and loved are dead. What northmen who have not fallen to the ironmen are warring amongst themselves. Even the Wall is under attack. Winterfell was the home of your childhood, Sansa, but you are no longer a child. You're a woman grown, and you need to make your own home."
Arya gets similar ideas from others. Again--did Lyanna get a similar speech? That her childhood was gone?
small and bleak and mean? It's all that, and less. The Fingers are a lovely place, if you happen to be a stone.
Or Stoney Dornish??
But have no fear, we shan't stay more than a fortnight.
Yes--that seems like plenty of time to stay in a barely inhabitable tower.
I expect your aunt is already riding to meet us." He smiled. "The Lady Lysa and I are to be wed."
"Wed?" Sansa was stunned. "You and my aunt?"
"The Lord of Harrenhal and the Lady of the Eyrie."
So, travel by boat, get off at not-a-port. Then met by an overland traveller at a tower.
A lady of a castle with white towers marrying a great lord. I know it's not anywhere near enough to be sure, but this sounds like Ashara marrying Rhaegar.
And I just though of something else which is probably nothing. But in the House of the Undying, Dany sees Rhaegar die with a woman's name on his lips. But Dany knows Lyanna's name--she says it out loud in Storm when talking about Lyanna's being crowned by Rhaegar. And Dany knows Elia's name--says or thinks it about 7 times in the novels.
But search Dany's POV and the name "Ashara" NEVER comes up. At all. Not in her thoughts, not her words. And no one says it to her.
Did Rhaegar die with Ashara's name on his lips????
You said it was my mother you loved. But of course Lady Catelyn was dead, so even if she had loved Petyr secretly and given him her maidenhood, it made no matter now.
Like Rhaegar was supposed to love Elia?