While she was not privy to the details of the meeting Queen Valaena had engaged in with Lord Stark and her small council, the truth remained that the bulk of the court had seen the Winterfell Lord beseech the Queen and disappear with her into her chambers.
Whispers abounded as they were wont to do — and Daena, with the fact of her betrothal to Edrick Stark hanging over her head, wondered after the truth.
A late morning tea with her aunt had not been with the intention of gaining that truth, though as she sat with the elder woman, it sat heavily over Daena. "The castle is filled with eager eyes and ears," she remarked as she sipped from her cup, "all seem concerned with the matter of the Starks and the North — do you suspect it will quell on its own?"
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