"Don't be. Someday, there will be vengeance. The North Remembers, Jon, and I am the North. He raped me and he flayed me and made me wish for death. He'll remember that when I order him flayed in front of an entire army, when I make him scream for death the way he made me scream."

She is steel now, so far from porcelain. So far from the gentle maid she used to be.

"I'll see it done. You'll help me, won't you?"