[ If he watches her close enough what he sees is this: she is different, older, harder, but at the same time softer as well. There is a restrained sort of desperateness to Alayne-who-is-Sansa, hidden behind all of her skirts and her manners. It is the burden of knowing too much too soon, of having the curtain of the world be ripped away too quickly. Behind all her courtesy, despite all of her blessings, Alayne is choking slowly upon all of her lies, drowning in two names, neither of which she can hold properly.
And, beyond that, there is guilt. A sense of: I should not have lived while others died. ]
That was not his fault. He fought bravely and won every battle.
action;
And, beyond that, there is guilt. A sense of: I should not have lived while others died. ]
That was not his fault. He fought bravely and won every battle.