I’m writing next chapter of Tale of the Black Knight and you are not ready… I’m telling you. Here, have a snippet!
Sansa herself could not be certain, Samwell attested she had been poisoned cleverly and lowly and surely — from the moment she had spoken out for Jon — to the moment she had felt the first, shattering symptoms… but she could not attest in any way or form that it might have been Aegon’s doing. Yes, his uncle was known studious of any form of poisons and was said to carry always poisoned blades on his person, yet Sansa could not believe that the man would act so rashly, and perhaps she hadn’t even been poisoned to begin with and Samwell was speaking treason on Jon’s behalf… or perhaps the whole thing had been ordained for the beginning to ensure Sansa could not be bed by the king. She had spent much time with Jalabhar as Jon had requested and had trusted him implicitly, yet he was not her friend, he was Jon’s.
Whom to trust? Whom to believe? And is Sansa truly innocent in all of this?
She needed a Targaryen husband to sire a trueborn child off her, whom would inherit the Iron throne, rule wisely and unchallenged and one day, slowly, grant independence to the North. That had been the reason why she had been sent South to marry a Targaryen king; it needed not to be Aegon for it to work, though it would have been simpler, but when the Gods danced their macabre and ironic dance nothing ever would been simple. (…) Jon was in love with her (…) and perhaps it had been her own doing, with her stupid, foolish heart.