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"Ned!" Cried the dark haired girl our scouts had found on the borders of camp.
"Lyanna?" Ned replied, "How are you here? Weren't you captured by Rhaegar?"
"Oh I escaped Big Brother. It wasn't that difficult though I had to flay him, Arthur Dayne, Oswell Whent, Gerold Hightower and a few maids alive to escape."
Wait a second, flay? It took a moment for me to realise that I had said this out loud as evidenced by both Lyanna and Ned's icy blue eyes staring at me.
"Of course Robert, flaying is a perfectly reasonable way to gain information" Ned stated.
"A flayed man holds no secrets, as father always said" Lyanna added.
Were all the Starks sadists now? Even little Benjen?
"If you want an example Robert I could always flay one of our prisoners alive, perhaps Jon Connington?" Ned suggested, "I did bring the family valyrian steel knife just for this sort of occasion."
"Aw, but Ned I want to use the family
knife..." Lyanna said grumpily.
"Now, now Lyanna, you just got to flay a prince. It wouldn't be nice to take this opportunity away from me." Ned replied.
Later in the throne room...
"I can't believe you Lannister!" shouted Ned.
"I assure you Lord Stark, my actions were for the good of the many" replied Tywin Lannister with a death glare.
"Oh it's not that" Ned replied, "I'm fine with you sacking the city - it probably smells better now. I'm just angry that you decided to stop."
"Um Ned, you are talking about killing children" reminded Jon Arryn, Ned and mine foster-father.
"The needs of the many outway the needs of the few, but the needs of our House outway them all" said Lyanna who was standing at my side, inconspicuously holding a large knife.
"Well said Lyanna" Ned replied, "So basically what I'm saying Lord Lannister is that you should have brought your fleet round from Lannisport to kill the Targaryens on Dragonstone...and Dorne if possible."
"Dorne?" said a shocked Ser Jaime.
"Yes, Dorne" Ned continued, "We can hardly allow a rebellious nation like that to continue to exist."
Even I, filled with rage over what the Targaryens had done was starting to realise just how evil the Stark's actually were. I mean, we haven't even got to gunpowder yet and they were already suggesting mass genocide!