#santris

He was waiting for her to get bored of him, or to get too scared of everything going on with the war, or to decide it was all too much and want to go back to her family. Then when he had that near death experience after the fight with Brienne he was sure that would be it. If he couldn’t protect her, wasn’t useful, that would be the final straw and she would be gone. But she stayed. She stayed by his side and took care of him even when he was nasty and tried to push her away, to hurt her before she could hurt him. She stayed. After that he had no more doubt that he was hers and she was his.

Since she was a young girl Astris has been known to sleep walk, and would almost certainly be found sleeping under their Heart Tree when someone realized she was missing.

She would often describe her dreams to her father and older brothers during meal times and Tomas would scold her brothers for filling her head with such non-sense about white walkers, endless winters and dragons destroying The Wall. Still, her descriptions painted such a picture that it unsettled even the adults and her father forbade her from discussing these dreams further. Her older brother Merrick once told her that her family descended from the First Men, and maybe some of the old magic still flowed in her veins.

She never put much stock in these dreams, and neither did Sandor until they started travelling north and her dreams became more frequent and more vivid the farther north they went. He also brushed them off as her reading too many old times and listening to too many old women’s ghost stories, but they did unsettle him. Even more so when he also saw the vision of The Wall falling in the fire.

She’d heard that she had become pregnant with a bastard and fled to hide her shame. She’d heard she was killed and her body thrown in the ocean, or hidden in some secret passageway under the castle. She’d heard that she ran away with a merchant from Dorne, extravagantly wealthy from his citrus orchards. She even had a man swear to her face that he’d fucked the missing Lady at a whorehouse in Pentos.

Astris Mudd is a former Lady of House Mudd. She was the youngest child of Tomas Mudd and Arliss Butterwell with three older brothers, Tristifer, Merrick, and Ardan.

Astris was sent to court by her father following Robert’s Rebellion after she declared her love for the stable master’s son. Her brother Merrick escorted her to King’s Landing where he was knighted against his father’s wishes.

While in King’s Landing Astris befriended Tyrion Lannister despite their fathers’ ill impression of each other. She also brought along her childhood friend and handmaiden Nella.