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1. bells on the heather, lilies on the water by all_ashes

   Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   30 Aug 2025

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   • Ned Stark/Lysa Tully
   • Lysa Tully
   • Ned Stark
   • Jon Snow
   • Sansa Stark
   • Lyarra Stark
   • Benjen Stark
   • Pre-Canon
   • Robert’s Rebellion
   • Canon Divergence
   • Angst
   • Arranged Marriage
   • Parenthood
   • Grief
   • Some Canon Compliant Deaths
   • Funerals
   • Family Relations
   • Blended family
   • shy Ned
   • Bastard Sansa
   • Oldest Child Sansa
   • Background Ned/Ashara
   • Past Lysa/Petyr
   • Lysa and Petyr’s Child Survives
   • Riverrun
   • Winterfell
   • Gothic Elements
   • Good Ending for Lysa
   • Good Ending for Catelyn (off-page)
   • Lysa Tully POV
   • Third Person POV
   • Present Tense
   • R Plus L Equals J | Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen are Jon Snow's Parents
   • Sexual Content

   Summary

   Lysa doesn’t dare ask the question out loud. She doesn’t want Ned to become even more distant. She doesn’t want him to think that she has spent a lot of time worrying about the fate of bastards.

   Ned Stark must wed one of Hoster Tully’s daughters to seal their alliance. In the confusion of war, this provides Hoster with a convenient solution to an embarrassing problem.

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