[ She could tell him of Sansa's wedding night, of how the Imp had been roused to take her, but out of pity he had forsaken his husbandly duties. He had not wished to be married to her any more than she had wanted to be married to him; the lack of consummation attested to that. But no, that is not a tale she is eager to relay. Besides, he asks about Alayne now, about Sansa's flight and the birth of a bastard. For a moment, Alayne wonders if she should tell the whole of it, if Stannis will suss the unfilled gaps and empty spaces and will assume her a liar for them (quite right of him, for a liar is what she is).
Her thoughts move passingly over Dontos — Sansa's sad Florian, her supposed knight. Thickly she swallows and speaks carefully, not out of fear but precision, as if unwilling to let even the slightest detail escape Lord Stannis' perusal.
Petyr— The word is there upon her tongue but she catches herself from speaking it. ] Lord Baelish helped me in my flight from the capital, certain that the queen would call for my head in the wake of Joffrey's death. There was so much confusion, the whole keep was a tumult. I stole away to the water's edge and he took me away. [ Demonstrably she touches the mockingbird upon her breast, followed by a lock of her dark brown hair. ] Tully red, he said, would catch the eye too readily and so he hid me in plain sight. We chose the name Alayne— [ A lie. Sansa had wanted to be called Catelyn after her mother, but Petyr had chosen his mother instead. ] —and made me a Stone.
He took me with him to the Fingers. [ Then afterwards the Vale, but Alayne does not make mention of her aunt nor her own perilous peer down the Moon Door's gullet. ] He said no one would think look for me there and no one did.
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Her thoughts move passingly over Dontos — Sansa's sad Florian, her supposed knight. Thickly she swallows and speaks carefully, not out of fear but precision, as if unwilling to let even the slightest detail escape Lord Stannis' perusal.
Petyr— The word is there upon her tongue but she catches herself from speaking it. ] Lord Baelish helped me in my flight from the capital, certain that the queen would call for my head in the wake of Joffrey's death. There was so much confusion, the whole keep was a tumult. I stole away to the water's edge and he took me away. [ Demonstrably she touches the mockingbird upon her breast, followed by a lock of her dark brown hair. ] Tully red, he said, would catch the eye too readily and so he hid me in plain sight. We chose the name Alayne— [ A lie. Sansa had wanted to be called Catelyn after her mother, but Petyr had chosen his mother instead. ] —and made me a Stone.
He took me with him to the Fingers. [ Then afterwards the Vale, but Alayne does not make mention of her aunt nor her own perilous peer down the Moon Door's gullet. ] He said no one would think look for me there and no one did.