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Raenera was in her tent after seeing the maester. On the table near her was a vial with milk of the poppy for her if she got in too much pain. The wound on her shoulder was healing well. The healer was more worried about her bruise ankle from her altercation with Ramsey Snow. She shook her head with the memory of that. The healer wanted her to take it easy. Starlight came trotting back into her tent.

"I see you had some fun" Raenera greeted Starlight as she sat by her.

Starlight barked at her. Raenera laughed scratching her behind her ears. She pulled her mother jewelry box in-front of her. She had not looked inside that box since her father had died. It brought up to many memories. She felt a paw on her lap. She turned and looked at Starlight with a weak smile on her face. She noticed Starlight turning her head toward the door of her tent. Lady Catelyn Stark stood in the doorway. Raenera rose to her feet turning to face Lady Stark.

"Lady Stark, come in please" Raenera said motioning to the two chairs in her tent.

Catelyn came into the tent taking one of the chairs. Raenera came over taking the seat across from her. There was uncomfortable silence that filled the tent. Neither of them knew what to say to the other. Raenera looked up at her for a moment debating what to say. Catelyn looked around the tent for a time her eyes landed on the vial on small table.

"Are you hurt Lady Umber?" Catelyn asked.

"Nothing I cannot handle Lady Stark. You son, learned of my injury on the way up here and order me to see the maester you have here. Truth be told the injury he wanted me seen for is not what worried the maester the most." Raenera answered.

"My son is the reason I'm here Lady Umber." Catelyn paused. She regarded Raenera for a time. Raenera tilted her head looking Catelyn in the eye. It was a little bit unsettling how her purple eyes seemed to show few emotions. Catelyn started to wonder what had made a child turned into the woman before her. "I sure you are aware of my son intention to marry you."

"Yes, I'm well aware of that fact. I will tell you what I told him. He is king now. He cannot always do what he wants. You have to think of the good of the people. And marry me is not good for the people. So I told him no."

"You told him no" Catelyn said shocked.

"He will not take it for an answer. He is trying to change my mind. We have a deal of shorts I guess. If he cannot convince me by the time we reach the coast he will marry the Frey girl. But if I change my mind before then I will marry him no questioned asked. And let worry about me being a Targaryen and the repercussions that come along with that fact."

"You know of the repercussions"

"Of course I do Lady Stark. There are those from just me staying with Robb's army. Most of my life had been thinking of repercussions. If anyone found out, what would happen? Not just to me but those around me who knew" Raenera paused.

Raenera rose from her chair walking over to where bottle of wine was located with a few goblets. She took on two of the glasses out. She uncorked the bottle pouring some into two glasses. She offered one to Lady Stark. Catelyn took it taking a small drink. Raenera did the same but she looked off thinking about what could happen to Lord Arryn if she was ever found out. She truly cared little for her own fate but those around her always meant more to her. After all she was just a nobody. Raenera sat back down in the chair; regarding Catelyn.

"I know you don't like me Lady Stark."

"It's not that I don't like you, Lady Umber. It's the fact that my sister suffered for years with the knowledge her husband betrayed her; like I have suffered. But knowing the truth that he never did so, I can only imagine the pain that she must have suffered with not knowing that."

"I'll not lie to you Lady Stark. Your sister, Lady Lysa, and I have never liked one another. But I know she did not suffer like you think."
"How can you be so sure?" Catelyn asked.

"She knew the truth. She may not have known who child I was. But she knew I was not Lord Arryn's."Raenera started.

Raenera he took a deep breath. She looked around the room. Remembering that the day that changed everything. Tears started to well up in her eyes. She knew she had to do what she did with Lord Stark. She looked back at Lady Stark. Her eyes not as guarded as before. For the first time, Catelyn could see emotion behind those pair purple eyes. Raenera could see the question in her eyes.

"I was five years old at the time…I had run off early in the day; I was trying escape Joffery who love to torment me. I was crying when I found myself in front of the Heart tree in the Godswoods in King Landing. I had so many questions, Joffery loved to torture me with the fact I did not know who my mother was and I looked nothing like my father. I came to there to escape. I knelt down near the tree. I started to ask all those questions that had no answers. I don't know how many hours I spent there. When Lord Arryn found me he had a worried expression on his face. He carried me back to the tower soothing all my fear and worries. After we ate supper he sent me to bed. I don't know how long I slept. All I remember was waking up from a nightmare of being set on fire. I left my chambers to find the one person who I knew could sooth my night terror away. I found my father and Lady Lysa arguing in hushed tones. I honestly don't remember all of the words that spoken between them. I'll never forget what Lady Lysa said. "Why do you protect her so? She's not even your child". I let out little gasp and ran from the room." Raenera paused. As the memories became too much for her; tears pour down her face. Catelyn sat in shock taking in everything that Raenera had revealed. She was so much strong then she seemed. She was child when this all happened; her youngest son age. Learning that truth then must have shaped her. Starlight came over resting her head on Raenera's lap giving her support. She smiled down at Starlight before she looked back at Lady Stark. She took a trembling breath. "At that moment realized my whole life was a lie. The only person that I remember ever hold me soothing my hurts beside my nurse. I cried into my pillow…"

Lord Arryn came into my room laying a soothing hand on my trembling back. She shook her head sending her dark curls wild mess.

"Raena look me"

"No"

"Rae, please"

Raenera looked up at him tears still present on her lashes and winding down her face. He pulled her little body into his lap. He rocked her in his arm as she cried into his chest. He kissed the top of her head.

"Rae you are my daughter, maybe not by blood but you are and I love you. Yes, I found you when you were days old in Luciya arms. Your mother was dead along your father. The moment I held you I knew I could not let them do what they did to the other children. So, I did what I had to keep you safe."

Raenera looked up at him. Their eyes met.

"Is Raena even my name?" Raena spat out angrily.

"No, your full name is Raenera. I never changed your name; Raena. Raena, Rae are shorten version of your name. Rae, you must know it was all to keep you safe." Lord Arryn soothed.

"Why would I not be safe?"

"You are a Targaryen child."

Raenera eyes went wide. The stories of what the Targaryen had done came to the forefront of her mind.

"...Those words changed everything." Raenera finished.

The tent fell back into uncomfortable silence. Catelyn took a breath absorbing what she was just told. Her eyes traveled around the room. Her eyes landed on the box on the table. Raenera took a large drink from her goblet. She was trying to push the emotion back into the back of her mind.

"What is in the box" Catelyn asked.

"It's my mother jewelry box. It has letters and her jewelry in it. I have not gone complete trough it yet." Raenera answered.
Catelyn came over to the box placing her goblet on the table near the box. Raenera rose from her chair and came over by her.

"May i?" Catelyn asked.

"Go head Lady Stark." Raenera said.

"Catelyn" Catelyn corrected.

"Catelyn," Raenera tried the name.

Catelyn smiled at her. She then opened the box. She leafed through the papers and examined the jewelry in there. Her eyes came to small box. She opened it in held the broach. Catelyn took it out examine every little detail of it.

"This should be you sigil." Catelyn commented turning to look at Raenera who was sitting on the bed.

Raenera smiled at her taking another drink.
"I guess it is" Raenera said off handedly.

Catelyn dug farther into the box. She found something that even Raenera did not know was in there. It was at the very bottom of the box. It was the size of the bottom of the box. Brown leather bound book. Catelyn turned with the book in her hands.

"What this?"Catelyn asked.

"I don't know" Raenera answered taking the book from her.

Raenera opened it to the first page of the book. Her eyes went wide. Tears once again fell from her eyes. Catelyn sat down next to her.

"What is it?" Catelyn asked.

"It's my mother journal." Raenera answered.

"Are you going to read it?" Catelyn asked.

"I don't know. I know what my real father was known as. I'm not sure I'm ready to read what he did to my mother. I'm not sure if I ever be ready. Maybe I should give it my uncle."

Catelyn laid her hand on Raenera's shoulders. It made Raenera to look at Catelyn. They both look at the book in her hands.

"I think your mother would want you to keep it." Catelyn said.

Raenera nodded her head with small smile.
"Thank you Catelyn"

"Think nothing of it Raenera. I will see you later" Catelyn said rising from the bed.

"I will look forward to it." Raenera said.

As Catelyn left Raenera's tent, Raenera looked back down to leather bounded book unsure. She slowly rose from the bed and head over to the box. She started to put everything back into the box with the book at the bottom.