Percy didn't know what to say. He didn't have any comforting words. He had only...

"I have a sister." Present tense. She was not here but she was alive. "When we were...younger, she was left alone, surrounded by enemies. She was just a girl, younger than you. Younger than Sansa. They were...impossibly cruel to her.

"And when the time came, years later, she took her chance and her freedom. They broke her, but not forever."

He looked away, out toward the mountains. "Noblewomen are, in my experience, stronger than they appear."