• Ever since the royal family - Robert Baratheon arrived in Winterfell with his family and Robb saw the daughter of his best friend, since then Ned only has to hear about how much his son admires a young beauty and one day Ned and Robert accidentally start a conversation over the table about how nice it would be to become even closer, and Robert jokingly says that they need to get married urgently after Ned tells a friend how much his son admires the young lady, to which Robert says that he is not against such an idea and says go and discuss it with the women

So Ned goes to Cersei to ask her for her daughter's hand in marriage for his son and heir, and the girl herself turns out to be there and they start a rather good conversation, and the girl accidentally She starts talking about John, talking about how she ran into him, about his always sullen grimace and about how his illegitimate son directly told the girl that he was not captivated by her beauty. Ned listened to this, At first glance, there was nothing serious and Ned even found the whole story cute, but then he noticed how the girl was talking about his illegitimate son and a realization dawned on him. The girl had feelings for John, for his illegitimate boy whom everyone calls a bastard.

But trying to get a confession out of the girl, Ned fails when the girl says that this is out of the question, to Ned's question "Why?" The answer is too well known, his son is a bastard. Understanding it is one thing, but hearing it is even more painful. And yet Ned accepts these painful and bitter words, and his heart fills with even greater pain for Jon. Nevertheless, Ned marries Robb to her,after all, how can he, after he discussed all this with Robert, then come to ask for the hand of the insidious Cersei and in addition

Several days passed after the wedding and Ned watched with his own eyes Robb's immense joy from his wife, as well as the glances between the girl and Jon, he saw that there was something between them, very fragile the same thing. But nothing happened.

On the day Jon went to the Wall, Ned was walking down the corridor of Winterfell castle and accidentally noticed how they were talking, they were really just talking like a guy and his brother's wife, but the heart Ned was bleeding profusely, and when Jon was about to leave, the girl quickly kissed him on the corner of the lips; it couldn’t even be called a kiss, something very innocent, obviously a farewell, and nothing more. The girl runs away before his unborn son can even speak in a daze.

After saying goodbye to Jon, Ned returns home, he quietly enters Robb's room which he shares with his wife and notices the girl sitting alone by the fireplace and crying, and he wakes up paternal feelings, the girl was still just a child, smart, insightful like Cersei, but unlike her mother, too innocent for intrigue.*