@dracharenae — ❝ i see a deep sadness written upon your face. could it be the sadness of a lost dream? ❞
❝ ...i stopped dreaming a long time ago. ❞ sometime after the shared deaths of her mother and brother. her dreams of escape, of gallant knights rescuing frightened ladies had faded and been replaced with images of a haunted river and the sorrowful howls of wolves in the dead of night. dreams did nothing to save anyone. they painted beautiful pictures of your hopes and deepest desires, but only to provide a temporary respite. too often they fell null. it was only when sansa let go of her dreams and started looking at what was in front of her that she started finding her way back home.
that the princess can read her so easily with little more than a few shared words between them —— it is not entirely comforting. sansa's expression steels over, spine straightening into near - rigidness as her grasp on her own hands tighten, even while holding onto an air of propriety. it is only an effort to veil the grief rhaenys had proclaimed. ❝ haven't we all had to give up some things to have made it where we are now? ❞








