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Hold On To Your Heart – Chapter 16

Summary: Rhaegar Targaryen and his siblings have conquered the North with fire and blood. Lyanna Stark is left with no choice but to submit to save her family name– even if it means she must wed their bastard brother Arthur Dayne.

Rating: Mature
Archive Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence
Categories: F/M
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire – George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones
Relationships: Arthur Dayne/Lyanna Stark
Chapters: 16/?

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ashara:

Every girl in the Seven Kingdoms dreamed of him, but he was mine by oath. And when I finally saw him on our wedding day in the Sept of Baelor, lean and fierce and black-bearded, it was the happiest moment of my life. Then that night he crawled on top of me, stinking of wine and did what he did, what little he could do, and whispered in my ear, “Lyanna.” Your sister was a corpse and I was a living girl and he loved her more than me.

ashara:

“Sansa was a lady at three, always so courteous and eager to please. She loved nothing so well as tales of knightly valor. Men would say she had my look, but she will grow into a woman far more beautiful than I ever was, you can see that. I often sent away her maid so I could brush her hair myself. She had auburn hair, lighter than mine, and so thick and soft … the red in it would catch the light of the torches and shine like copper.

And Arya, well … Ned’s visitors would oft mistake her for a stableboy if they rode into the yard unannounced. Arya was a trial, it must be said. Half a boy and half a wolf pup. Forbid her anything and it became her heart’s desire. She had Ned’s long face, and brown hair that always looked as though a bird had been nesting in it. I despaired of ever making a lady of her. She collected scabs as other girls collect dolls, and would say anything that came into her head. I think she must be dead too.“ — A Clash of Kings, Catelyn VII