[ sansa could not explain it. she's too far invested -- she does not see the webs and reasons. but even she, with her first-hand experience of marriage pacts, could begin to see how natural born children threaten the tentatively tied alliances of westeros. in truth, from so high up low-born bastards were near indistinguishable from the rest. high borns, however!

she bit her lip and thought of jon. ]

Tommen is king, now. And I cannot blame him for his birth. As I said, he is sweet. But others still challenge his throne. Some of those challengers are already dead; some of them are here.