"And I don't mind it if our allies are fooled, Ser Gendry. Most of them are strangers to me."

After all, she held even the kinder strangers at arm's length as Alayne Stone. Even allowing Gendry to know her honest name had happened in a fit of startled exuberance -- a brief flash-in-the-pan moment of delight and trust that she now suspected she ought to regret. Except...

Except would he have been bothering to protect her at all were she not a Stark? Sansa did not know.