She turned up her hood to hide her swollen face and left him there in the dark beneath the oak, amidst the quiet of the godswood, under a blue-black sky. Why else should you have come to me and told me of your father's plan to send you away from us, if not for love? It was for love, Sansa said in a rush. We went to war when Lannister armies were ravaging the riverlands, and Ned was a prisoner, falsely accused of treason. Lord Renly was still in his hunting greens, his cloak spattered with blood.
The commons were hooting and pointing, the lords and ladies were trying to stifle their chuckles, and failing, and over it all Ned could hear King Robert laughing, louder than anyone. Her hands throbbed, and her knee was all bloody too. The halfman would pay us with our own coin, said Conn. It is too dark to see them, but the steps are there.
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