However they treated each other as children, so much time had passed and so much pain had been afflicted on them that they would never behave the same as before. They were family, the only family that they had left. They had to trust each other and stay together.

They each had stories to tell. While he was afraid to tell Sansa the full future waiting for her, there were some things that she and Arya would want to hear. The Boltons were dead and Winterfell was theirs again.

"Not so long, only a month." Or thereabout. "Sansa only recently arrived too." Before that, he had been nothing but alone. The story of his life. "So long as you don't pull her hair, she'll be excited to see you." More than excited. Sansa had been by herself for so long.