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The Sphere: IC Inbox

[a generic automated greeting in a synthetic voice: 'you have reached the inbox of Ned Stark. please leave a message.']

[ Eponine succeeded at least in one way: hurting the two of them and their precious time together. ]

Your way is suddenly clear now that Jeyne is here.

It will not happen again.

So Eponine said as well and I'm fortunate, but I still loved her even when she wasn't and as much as Eponine wanted me to, I couldn't forget or replace her. I felt I was still married.

I thought you would approve.

[But he's not sure what to think anymore.]

Thank you.

I approve of whatever path leads you to be happy with the man you have become.

I will simply say this. You would not exist if your mother felt that same way about her first betrothed.

Mother didn't marry for love. She married for duty.

Father, why does it matter. This is how I feel, why keep pressing it?

As did I.

I pray you and Jeyne will have the joy of a new life here together.

[ He remembers the babe Robb said they lost, and knows that Robb may never understand a father's desire to see his child happy and fulfilled in their path. It is a different one than he had walked. And it was good that his son would not simply walk in his footsteps but make new steps of his own. ]