She held no resentment towards the Stark girl, only towards Rhaegar. If Ashara was to see him again she would quite gladly give the prince a piece of her mind, and quite possibly more. Lyanna Stark was but a child at the tourney and yet he stole her away from her family and her betrothed. Not that she was missing much with Robert Baratheon, a boar of a man and rather oafish - rumoured to have several bastards in the Storm Lands already, Ashara was glad Lyanna escaped from a loveless marriage. She had heard that Lyanna died birthing a babe, this made her heart ache - for her daughter, the babe had been stillborn and her wolf-blooded lover lost in a war started over his sister being taken. She only wished to find her friend and hoped that in this new land Elia and her children would have been spared. She had wept for days at the loss of her friend and found herself in the highest tower of Starfall - and then all she could see was black.
With caution she approached the raven-haired wolf, her hands clasped in front of her. They had never spoken, not that Ashara could remember. She was infatuated with Lyanna’s elder brother, Brandon. With a smile on her face, she placed her hand on her shoulder, careful not to frighten her. “Lady Lyanna, I am glad to see you are safe and well.” She was glad that the young Stark girl was safe where she would be able to watch over her for Brandon.”I have heard whispers that we are in a place called Winterwall?” Everything in this world was strange to the maid with the purple eyes, from the way people dressed and to how they spoke. What confused her the most was the things they went from place to place in.
Throughout her short life, Lyanna had very few dealings with Ashara Dayne. Company was kept with the lady’s brother, who had shown kinship with her own love, Rhaegar. During those final days when she was heavy with child and fretting over the survival of all those she had cared for, Ser Arthur had been a friend to her. It was a strange world that she had been thrown into, too many politics for her straightforward mind. She said what she thought and had little patience for oafish men. How f o r t u n a t e she had been to escape the clutches of Robert. A war had destroyed all of her happiness. And then, she had not been able to hold her boy a she bled, the winter rose which Rhaegar had given her wilting in a vase. It had been the saddest day of her life, for she knew that her boy would be vulnerable.
Intaking a sharp breath, Lyanna stepped forward to greet the Lady of Starfall. ❛ It has not been without its difficulties, ❜ the wolf-maid admitted, catching her bottom lip between her teeth. In many ways, she still felt like a girl rather than a woman. ❛ Winterwall ? There is nothing wintery about it. Up in the heart of the North, that is a true winter. ❜ Rolling her shoulders, a nervous smile lifted on to her lips. ❛ How have you fared, Lady Ashara ? ❜