[ There is the question she'd hoped for, the conclusion she wished that Bran would eventually reach.
The trap had been set and easily sprung, but — no, that is not how Alayne should think of it, for what sister would readily look to bait her own brother so easily. Then no again, for Bran is not her brother, but how readily that gets confused in her mind these days. The badge sewn over her heart, the one that bears the name Alayne Stone, frays more and more with each passing week, revealing Sansa underneath.
Instead, she changes the words her mind thinks, shifts them to something less dire and dogged, less cruel around the edges. The path is laid and she leads him to it. Bran is smart — smarter than any of the other Stark children, Alayne thinks — and so it does not take much goading for him to find his way there. ]
You may borrow all of my crows, if it please you. Every single one, Bran. [ She smiles at him, encouragingly. ] I cannot think of a finger idea.
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The trap had been set and easily sprung, but — no, that is not how Alayne should think of it, for what sister would readily look to bait her own brother so easily. Then no again, for Bran is not her brother, but how readily that gets confused in her mind these days. The badge sewn over her heart, the one that bears the name Alayne Stone, frays more and more with each passing week, revealing Sansa underneath.
Instead, she changes the words her mind thinks, shifts them to something less dire and dogged, less cruel around the edges. The path is laid and she leads him to it. Bran is smart — smarter than any of the other Stark children, Alayne thinks — and so it does not take much goading for him to find his way there. ]
You may borrow all of my crows, if it please you. Every single one, Bran. [ She smiles at him, encouragingly. ] I cannot think of a finger idea.