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A GAME OF THRONES: CATELYN II

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Whoever Jon’s mother had been, Ned must have loved her fiercely, for nothing Catelyn said would persuade him to send the boy away.
August 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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“The man died well, I’ll give him that,” Ned said. “I was glad for Bran’s sake. You would have been proud of Bran.” “I am always proud of Bran,” Catelyn replied.
June 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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“It sounds as though Robert is bringing half his court.” “Where the king goes, the realm follows,” she said.
June 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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A GAME OF THRONES: CATELYN II

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“My lady, tell me! What was this message?” “A warning,” she said softly. “If we have the wits to hear.” His eyes searched her face. “Go on.” “Lysa says Jon Arryn was murdered.” “By whom?” “The Lannisters,” she told him. “The queen.”
August 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Ned squeezed her hand. “There must be a feast, of course, with singers, and Robert will want to hunt. “I shall send Jory south with an honor guard to meet them on the kingsroad and escort them back. “Gods, how are we going to feed them all? On his way already, you said? “Damn the man. Damn his royal hide.”
June 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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“We should send word to your brother on the Wall.” “Yes, of course,” he agreed. “Ben will want to be here. I shall tell Maester Luwin to send his swiftest bird.” Ned rose and pulled her to her feet.
June 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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“It will be good to see the children. The youngest was still sucking at the Lannister woman’s teat the last time I saw him. He must be, what, five by now?” “Prince Tommen is seven,” she told him. “The same age as Bran. “Please, Ned, guard your tongue. The Lannister woman is our queen, and her pride is said to grow with every passing year.”
June 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Ned turned away from her, back to the night. He stood staring out in the darkness, watching the moon and the stars perhaps, or perhaps the sentries on the wall. Catelyn softened then, to see his pain. She was about to go to him when the knock came at the door, loud and unexpected.
August 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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A GAME OF THRONES: CATELYN I

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Catelyn had been anointed with the seven oils and named in the rainbow of light that filled the sept of Riverrun. She was of the Faith, like her father and grandfather and his father before him. Her gods had names, and their faces were as familiar as the faces of her parents. Worship was a septon with a censer, the smell of incense, a seven-sided crystal alive with light, voices raised in song. The Tullys kept a godswood, as all the great houses did, but it was only a place to walk or read or lie in the sun. Worship was for the sept. For her sake, Ned had built a small sept where she might sing to the seven faces of god. But the blood of the First Men still flowed in the veins of the Starks, and his own gods were the old ones, the nameless, faceless gods of the greenwood they shared with the vanished children of the forest.
June 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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“Jon…” he said. “Is this news certain?” “It was the king’s seal, and the letter is in Robert’s own hand. I saved it for you. “He said Lord Arryn was taken quickly. Even Maester Pycelle was helpless, but he brought the milk of the poppy, so Jon did not linger long in pain.” “That is some small mercy, I suppose,” he said.
June 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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A GAME OF THRONES: CATELYN II

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Luwin plucked at his chain collar where it had chafed the soft skin of his throat. “The Hand of the King has great power, my lord. Power to find the truth of Lord Arryn’s death, to bring his killers to the king’s justice. Power to protect Lady Arryn and her son, if the worst be true.” Ned glanced helplessly around the bedchamber. Catelyn’s heart went out to him, but she knew she could not take him in her arms just then. First the victory must be won, for her children’s sake. “You say you love Robert like a brother. Would you leave your brother surrounded by Lannisters?” “The Others take both of you,” Ned muttered darkly.
August 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Catelyn looked to her husband. “Now we truly have no choice. You must be Robert’s Hand. You must go south with him and learn the truth.” She saw at once that Ned had reached a very different conclusion. “The only truths I know are here. The south is a nest of adders I would do better to avoid.”
August 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Her eyes moved over the words. At first they made no sense to her. Then she remembered. “Lysa took no chances. When we were girls together, we had a private language, she and I.” “Can you read it?” “Yes,” Catelyn admitted. “Then tell us.” “Perhaps I should withdraw,” Maester Luwin said. “No,” Catelyn said. “We will need your counsel.”
August 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Ned would not speak of [Jon Snow’s] mother, not so much as a word. But a castle has no secrets, and Catelyn heard her maids repeating tales they heard from the lips of her husband’s soldiers. They whispered of Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning, deadliest of the seven knights of Aerys’s Kingsguard, and of how their young lord had slain him in single combat. And they told how afterward Ned had carried Ser Arthur’s sword back to the beautiful young sister who awaited him in a castle called Starfall on the shores of the Summer Sea. The Lady Ashara Dayne, tall and fair, with haunting violet eyes.
August 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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“Gods,” [Ned] whispered. His voice was hoarse. “Your sister is sick with grief. She cannot know what she is saying.” “She knows,” Catelyn said. “Lysa is impulsive, yes, but this message was carefully planned, cleverly hidden. “She knew it meant death if her letter fell into the wrong hands. To risk so much, she must have had more than mere suspicion.”
August 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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“The letter had other tidings. The king is riding to Winterfell to seek you out.” It took Ned a moment to comprehend her words, but when the understanding came, the darkness left his eyes. “Robert is coming here?” When she nodded, a smile broke across his face. Catelyn wished she could share his joy. But she had heard the talk in the yards; a direwolf dead in the snow, a broken antler in its throat. Dread coiled within her like a snake, but she forced herself to smile at this man she loved, this man who put no faith in signs. “I knew that would please you,” she said.
June 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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“He was the fourth this year,” Ned said grimly. “The poor man was half-mad. Something had put a fear in him so deep that my words could not reach him.” He sighed. “Ben writes that the strength of the Night’s Watch is down below a thousand. It’s not only desertions. They are losing men on rangings as well.” “Is it the wildlings?” she asked. “Who else?” Ned lifted Ice, looked down the cool steel length of it. “And it will only grow worse. The day may come when I will have no choice but to call the banners and ride north to deal with this King-beyond-the-Wall for good and all.”
June 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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“The queen’s brothers are also in the party,” she told him. Ned grimaced at that. There was small love between him and the queen’s family, Catelyn knew. The Lannisters of Casterly Rock had come late to Robert’s cause, when victory was all but certain, and he had never forgiven them. “Well, if the price for Robert’s company is an infestation of Lannisters, so be it.”
June 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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The maester placed the paper on the table beside the bed. It was sealed with a small blob of blue wax. Luwin bowed and began to retreat. “Stay,” Ned commanded him. His voice was grave. He looked at Catelyn. “What is it? My lady, you’re shaking.” “I’m afraid,” she admitted. She reached out and took the letter in trembling hands. The furs dropped away from her nakedness, forgotten. In the blue wax was the moon-and-falcon seal of House Arryn. “It’s from Lysa.” Catelyn looked at her husband. “It will not make us glad,” she told him. “There is grief in this message, Ned. I can feel it.” Ned frowned, his face darkening. “Open it.” Catelyn broke the seal.
August 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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“Catelyn, you shall stay here in Winterfell.” His words were like an icy draft through her heart. “No,” she said, suddenly afraid. Was this to be her punishment? Never to see his face again, nor to feel his arms around her? “Yes,” Ned said, in words that would brook no argument. “You must govern the north in my stead, while I run Robert’s errands.”
August 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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“Ned,” she called softly. He lifted his head to look at her. “Catelyn,” he said. “Where are the children?” He would always ask her that. “In the kitchen, arguing about names for the wolf pups.” She spread her cloak on the forest floor and sat beside the pool, her back to the weirwood. She could feel the eyes watching her, but she did her best to ignore them.
June 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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He turned away from them and went to the window. She did not speak, nor did the maester. They waited, quiet, while Eddard Stark said a silent farewell to the home he loved. When he turned away from the window at last, his voice was tired and full of melancholy, and moisture glittered faintly in the corners of his eyes. “My father went south once, to answer the summons of a king. He never came home again.” “A different time,” Maester Luwin said. “A different king.”
August 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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She could see the grief on [Ned Stark’s] face, but even then he thought first of her. “Your sister,” he said. “And Jon’s boy. What word of them?” “The message said only that they were well, and had returned to the Eyrie,” Catelyn said. “I wish they had gone to Riverrun instead. The Eyrie is high and lonely, and it was ever her husband’s place, not hers. Lord Jon’s memory will haunt each stone. “I know my sister. She needs the comfort of family and friends around her.” “Your uncle waits in the Vale, does he not? Jon named him Knight of the Gate, I’d heard.” Catelyn nodded. “Brynden will do what he can for her, and for the boy. That is some comfort, but still…” “Go to her,” Ned urged. “Take the children. Fill her halls with noise and shouts and laughter. That boy of hers needs other children about him, and Lysa should not be alone in her grief.” “Would that I could,” Catelyn said.
June 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Maester Luwin cut in. “Another solution presents itself,” he said, his voice quiet. “Your brother Benjen came to me about Jon a few days ago. It seems the boy aspires to take the black.” Ned looked shocked. “He asked to join the Night’s Watch?” Catelyn said nothing. Let Ned work it out in his own mind; her voice would not be welcome now. Yet gladly would she have kissed the maester just then. His was the perfect solution. Benjen Stark was a Sworn Brother. Jon would be a son to him, the child he would never have. And in time the boy would take the oath as well. He would father no sons who might someday contest with Catelyn’s own grandchildren for Winterfell.
August 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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He slid Ice back into its sheath. “You did not come here to tell me crib tales. I know how little you like this place. “What is it, my lady?” Catelyn took her husband’s hand. “There was grievous news today, my lord. I did not wish to trouble you until you had cleansed yourself.” There was no way to soften the blow, so she told him straight. “I am so sorry, my love. Jon Arryn is dead.” His eyes found hers, and she could see how hard it took him, as she had known it would.
June 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM