[ Starks and their stubbornness; Starks and their bravery. Alayne loves it and fears it, for it threatens what she holds most dear, threatens to take it all away from her again — those things once stolen and only now regiven. ] Robb and Jon ventured into the maze with good company and, even so, returned sick. You've only just recovered and when you go to these beasts, you will go alone.

None of us can come with you. [ Spoken truly like a sister who has been forced to sit and watch, helpless and unable to do nothing, left behind in wakefulness with Summer and a limp body to hug and cradle gently but not disturb. ]

Summer loves you. He's of our blood. [ Alayne shakes her head once. ] It will not be the same.