"An entire moon's turn? Unheard of," Sansa says, laughing at that. "Can you believe I have been here for nine entire months and no one has attacked me, not even once? That is the longest I've gone since I was a young girl. I've been someone's pawn since I was thirteen, I think, and now I am not. This place seems to be good for us."

Sansa draws her fingers along his palm. "I've never done this before, either. This is not the way of things where I come from, to be able to know someone like this."