Lyanna did not love Rhaegar. Lyanna was charmed by Rhaegar, she was impressed by Rhaegar, she liked Rhaegar, she might have even been fond of him after a while. But she was never really in love with him. She agreed to run away with him, to give him what he said he needed, in exchange for freedom from her betrothal and the promise of the adventure she had always longed for. Highborn though she might be, she was only fourteen when she met Rhaegar, and he was many years older, as well as the heir to the throne. If he wanted something from her, how could she dare refuse, after all ?  She agreed, she went willingly, but that doesnât mean the Tower of Joy was a happy place for her. At first, she thought it would be, she thought it all exciting and fanciful and maybe even a little romantic. But she quickly became overwhelmed and unhappy as rebellion brewed and war broke out. By the time her child was born, Lyannaâs life had become nothing but isolation and misery. She blamed Rhaegar for enticing her to run away, for using her, for the rebellion and the war and the deaths. She blamed Rhaegar because that was easier than admitting that she blamed herself. When she heard that Rhaegar had fallen at the Trident, she wept for the king who should have been, the father that his children would not know, and the man who might have been her dear friend if the world had been different.
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