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“Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover’s kisses, and melted on her cheeks. At the center of the garden, beside the statue of the weeping woman that lay broken and half-buried on the ground, she turned her face up to the sky and closed her eyes. She could feel the snow on her lashes, taste it on her lips. It was the taste of Winterfell. The taste of innocence. The taste of dreams.”

Can anyone help me make sense of Petyr’s reaction here? Because I hate my own interpretation.

This is just after Petyr kisses Sansa in the Winterfell crypts, telling her to be strong without him. She says, “I imagine I’ll be a married woman by the time you return,” alluding to the fact she’ll be bedded.

Now, this is when they have developed into playing each other (or at least started to) as Aidan once said - “they use each other, they enjoy each other, they’re onto each other.”

So it would seem Sansa, who is frightened about being left alone with the Boltons, says this comment about being married/bedded/possibly with child to either persuade Petyr to stay, to help ensure he ensures her safety, or at least to test her sway over him. (Something else?)

Petyr reacts by seeing right through whatever she’s doing, and chuckles/smirks it off while giving her a look that says “I’m not taking the bait.”

I find this completely out of character for a man who a) desires Sansa as his own wife and b) made a face of anger and disgust in the background when Lysa asks Sansa if Tyrion bedded her.

Therefore, I must be misreading what’s happening here. But then again, Petyr told Roose to go ahead and confirm her virginity by having her examined, so maybe he truly doesn’t care about being first, as long as he gets Sansa in the end.

It could just be the nonsense that was this season, but, while I have little faith in the writers making sense, I have a lot in the actor, Aidan, knowing what he’s doing.

“oh dear! ;)))) i’m gonna be married when you return! we can’t do this anymore! ;))))”

and he’s like “oh dear! ;))))) this is so sad! ;))))) we’ll have to stop! ;)))))!”