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Plus, Ned had married the Tully girl nearly seven months ago, so how did he think he could explain to everyone about his newborn bastard son? He had to at least wait two months without returning so that he could look more convincing. Edward planned to have Ned stay in Storm's End after they arrived there so that the plan could work. In the original story, Ned and Jon married at the very start of the rebellion. But due to Edward's achievements in Stormsland and The Reach, the marriage got delayed time and time again as they went for it slowly this time.
After thinking about what Edward said, Ned found that Edward's words made sense and started to think of how idiot he was. He also respected Edward for helping him take his sister's body with him. He had planned to wait here for the moment while sending Howland to get a carriage from the nearest town to the tower.
Actually, Edward did not want to wait long for this place, so he decided to ask his men staying in Kingsgrave to send him a carriage. He preferred to move their conversation to Storm's End. He spent the rest of the time discussing some matters with the four of them.
Two hours later, a few soldiers, holding the Baratheon's banner, came close to the tower with a carriage pulled by two horses. After bowing their heads to their lord and handing the carriage to Clinn, Edward ordered them to return to their posts.
Edward and Ned then climbed the tower back to the room where Lyanna's body was. Edward let Ned and the maids change Lyanna's dress that got covered with her blood. The maids chose a white dress which made Lyanna look like a sleeping angel with a pale and tired face. Edward then helped Ned carry her body after covering her, and both of them went down.
After helping Ned putting Lyanna's body on the carriage, they decided to let Howland Reed drive the carriage while Arthur Dayne would take his horse while still being tied by the robe. Edward decided to move slowly on their way to Storm's End. He wanted to waste as much time as he could so that Ned's story could look more convincing to the others. Of course, the three of them would get questioned by others. If the honorable Ned Stark could do something like that to dishonor himself, what about Lord Baratheon, who was known for doing something like that before his marriage? But Edward did not care about anyone's opinions. He would be the Stormking very soon.
It took them two weeks to arrive at Storm's End this time. Edward did not wait and prepared a ship under some of his trusted men. They would be responsible for taking Lyanna to The North, White Harbor, to be exact. Edward asked Ned to write a letter to Ben to receive the ship and take care of his sister until the moment when Ned returned to The North, where they would hold her funeral. Edward did not forget to ask Ned to keep something from Lyanna in order to show it to Robert when Ned returned to King's Landing.
After this, Edward prepared a place for Ned where the man could hide with the little child in his hands and prepared some maids to take care of the child in Ned's place. He then took the still in the daze and self-blame Arthur Dayne to the castle's dungeon. If Robert knew about this, he would get angry, but Edward did not really care anymore. Edward then went to his room. He wanted to check on Ashara and the children.
After entering the room, he saw Ashara, who got much better from the last time that Edward saw her. Edward got a little surprised as he did not expect his words to be this effective that Ashara would change this much. He thought that she would still be grieving for her dead sister, but it seemed that he had underestimated the loss of her sister.
"I see that you are much better now, Ash." Said Edward as he sneaked on Ashara. He did not knock on the door this time, and Ashara was playing with Axil and did not notice him.
Ashara, who got a little surprised by Edward's voice since no one had informed her of his return, stood up at once and came close to him before hugging him.
"You are back, my love. How did it go?" Asked Ashara, but she did not raise her head to look at Edward. She did not want to face him if he said that her brother died as well.
"Don't worry. Your idiotic brother is in the castle's dungeon. But Lyanna Stark died when we arrived." Said Edward as he faked a sad tone at the end of his sentence. Lyanna and Ashara got really close in the last few years, especially when Lyanna visited Ashara in Storm's End after Raymont was born.
"What!!" Ashara got surprised a little by what Edward said. She felt a little guilty here since all she cared about the last time they talked was her brother. Ashara did not even ask Edward to take of Lyanna. At the moment, she lost all her close friends. After Elia and Lyanna died, she did not have anyone she could describe as her close friend. Plus, After the Daynes betrayed Edward's trust and sent a part of their men to help Rhaegar, Edward would never forgive them and might not allow her to see them again.
"It is sad, but I did all I could. Sit down. I want to tell you a secret that must never leave this room. Actually, when we arrived, Lyanna had given birth to Rhaegar's child. That cunt threatened her with her family in order to sleep with her. But she died after giving birth to a child." Said Edward trying to describe the situation to hear. He did so because she would figure out this without his help when she saw Ned. He could only conceal the matter regarding his marriage to Lyanna.
"What? That asshole did that. How could he betray Elia and force Lyanna?" Said Ashara with an angry tone. The problem was that Edward betrayed her friend and forced the other. The one who helped him to do that was none other than her brother. That meant that her brother was one of the living reasons responsible for her sister and two friends' deaths. Ashara swore in her heart to torture him well enough with her hands because of all this. Of course, her heart did not reach the degree where she would decide to take her brother's life yet.
"Where is my brother? I will kill him myself." Asked Ashara with anger in her voice. Ashara did not believe that all this could happen in less than two years.