It delighted him to see the way her eyes lit up; the way each word was punctuated with with a rush of need. As if she had to say it all at once in one long breath for fear that he would disappear before her very eyes. Just like when she was younger and had to get it all out before their father turned the corner and showed his disapproval.

But at Lyanna's list, Ned's smile faltered.

"Sansa and Arya are here?" Ned asked, instinctively looking up to do a quick search of the faces around them, hoping to see them, though he only only spares a moment before the rest of what she tells him catch up with the rest of his brain and he looks back at her.

Magic.. Rhaegar and his sister..

"Rhaegar Targaryen is here?" Ned spoke, his tone far more neutral that it touched on unnerving. But given everything that had gone on - back in Westeros and now here - it was all a little too dreamlike and dizzying to really absorb it seriously. At any moment, he expected to wake up.