Bards rarely came up to Winterfell, so Sansa barely knew a few of their songs and stories, as much as she liked them. In the court, however, there were bards performing every day, the best ones in King’s Landing and some that even lived in the palace, playing only for the King and his court. Sansa was happy to listen to them sing beautiful stories about maids and knights and undying love; or at least she was before her whole life turned upside down.
Sansa doesn’t like Cersei anymore, but she doesn’t have any other option than to sit on her lap while the bard sings about another romance just for the two of them. As the story unravels the Queen strokes her beautiful auburn hair and brushes long fingers over her soft young skin. The bard signs about love and happiness, and Cersei’s red lips press gently against Sansa’s rosy cheek.
“Your first kiss won’t be for love.”
Having grown up listening to fairytales about beautiful but poor maids and brave knights falling in love and living happily ever after, Sansa had always wanted something similar for her own life; to be taken away from the cold grey Winterfell to King’s Landing and marry a knight.
Now that Alayne has moved from the smallest of The Fingers and things start to look better, she wonders if maybe the fairytale will come true for her.