Lyanna hadn't intended to fall asleep at Jon's bedside but everytime she tried to get up and leave him she found that she just couldn't do it. If Ned had not come and woken her just before dawn she might have stayed all night.
"Lyanna?" Ned said, his hand on her shoulder. "You'll hurt yourself. You need to go sleep in a real bed."
She nooded and stood, taking another look at Jon, hesitant to leave.
"He'll still be here in the morning, I promise you." Ned said. "It's better if you aren't here when he wakes. He would be very confused.."
Reluctantly, Lyanna followed her brother out into the hall and back towards her old bed chamber.
"Give me until the noon meal to explain everything to Catlyn. After that, you and I will speak with Jon." Ned told her.
"Thank you Ned." They had reached her room by then and she looked worriedly into the doorway.
"Don't trouble yourself about Jaime. I have no plans to make his presence here known. I will stick as close to the truth as I can though. The servants will remember you and we can not hope to lie to them. Your husband can be whoever you need him to be." Ned said.
"Yoren. That was the name he used in Essos." Lyanna told him.
Ned made a face, making it clear that he still disliked the falsity of it all. "Alright then. People will ask if you helped Jaime Lannister escape…most of our household will know who he is but they will not question it if I order them not to."
"I'm sorry Ned…" Lyanna said, she didn't know what else to say.
He sighed and shook his head. "Dear sister, you were always so impulsive, so reckless, but it doesn't make me care for you any less. I will do what I must." He kissed her on the forehead. "Get some sleep." Ned said and left her there.
