It was a 9 day ride from Winterfell to Harrenhall. Lyanna loved every moment of it because her brothers let her ride on horseback. Yet she knew that freedom would be eradicated when she married and moved to the Stormlands. Brandon's negative attitude towards his supposed marriage to Catelyn Tully was rubbing off on everyone who was approaching his sight. He knew that he would be tied down for the rest of his life to a woman he probably could not love himself. However, that could not stop him from committing infidelity. That would stop Lyanna from infidelity. "Why is father making me do this?" he asked entering a whorehouse with Benjin for the first time.
"I dunno. You're his heir and you need alliances to secure Winterfell. What better way than by marrying a Tully girl?" Benjin replied handing the owner a couple of coins for some girls.
"Yet I have to do my duty by her and be a husband who warms her bed and provides heirs. I have to sleep with an untouched woman for the rest of my life. Her pureness shames my inpureness."
"Or she will like your experience." Benjin said honestly. "I mean your experience will teach you how to be gentle and good for the first few times. Then please her the next times."
"Oh I dunno. It's almost like Harrenhall will present me with multiple options other than the Tully girl. I am not into girls with red hair." He said bluntly.
"At least father has plans for you." Benjin said. He was pulled into the other room and left Brandon to his thoughts.
Lyanna sat down on the field with Ned smiling at him. "Tell me about the royal family." She said intrigued wondering what it would be like to lay eyes upon them at the tournament. "I only ask not out of treason, but out of curiosity for who I will be seeing at Harrenhall."
"Ah yes." Ned said with a twinkle in his eye. "Who do I start with?"
"The Mad King Aerys." She responded. "Start with him and tell me about his wife and children."
"Well sister, Aerys is mad. They say that he grew more and more paranoid after an uprising in the west. It was a rather petty rebellion. However, he kept tumbling into madness. His wife and sister, Rhaella is said to be the most beautiful woman in Westeros yet the most sad woman in Westeros. She tends to avoid her husband unless he seeks her out for her duties as a wife. Together, they have 2 sons. The first son Rhaegar, the Targaryen heir, married Elia Martell of Dorne and they have 2 children named Rhaenys and Aegon. The second son of Aerys is Viserys. He is just a small boy." Ned stated.
"Oh yes." Lyanna said. "Is it true that they have dragons?"
"Aye." Ned said. "Tis. It is like asking if we Starks have direwolves." Lyanna chuckled.
"Ned?" she asked curiously.
"Hmmm." Ned responded.
"Do you ever feel as though you are destined for something greater than what you are given?" Lyanna asked.
"No. My spirits are humbled. For I am grateful to be a Stark and I shall serve my future wife and children and house as honorably as I can."
"Oh I see." Lyanna responded. "Come now brother, I'll race you on horseback!" she exclaimed changing the subject. Lyanna mounted her house with Ned and the two of the rode off into the Sunset of the Eastern Stormlands.