[ part of her thinks she should protest. he is (by all accounts) their patriarch in the castle. the one around whom their little society flits and spins. to risk him on the road-- ]

I count myself fortunate every day to have met you again, Lord Renly. [ her desire to be whisked into safety by someone a little more well-behaved than gendry inspires her to say otherwise. ] I knew you were good the moment I saw you -- [ on the kingsroad. but that had been sansa, not alayne. ] The first time I saw you. Perhaps it's the one thing I was never wrong about.