Ned says, “I shouldn’t have called for you in the first place. “No one should be able to get to the North from King’s Landing this quickly.”įor the first perhaps week, she’d been so exhausted and shocked that she could barely string a sentence together.

“I know you came as fast as you could,” she says sincerely and wonders how she’ll explain this to him. There’s another child right beside them, and she doesn’t care because she was supposed to be with his brother, not with him, but here he is anyway. You’re here now, she thinks, because Robert was just declared King and they were raised so close they might as well have been brothers, so he would have kept Ned there longer if he could have. “Oh, Cat,” he says, taking hold of her hands, “I’m so sorry I wasn’t there.” Today marks a full week after she should have bled. He has a baby in his arms, which she thinks under different circumstances would make her angry, but at the sight of her he drops to his knees by the side of the bed where she’s just now sat up.

Ned arrives not long after, having pushed himself perhaps too hard to rush, and it’s right at this time she begins to feel emotionally strong enough to leave their room. She thought it strange, but hadn’t questioned, and now wishes that she had because barely a fortnight later and she’s returned. Some matter of great importance has come up that requires her to leave Winterfell behind along with him for about a month and a half. It happens at the end of Robert’s Rebellion when Catelyn is headed to King’s Landing to meet her husband. Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings.

The darkest evening of the year summary