I would otherwise have thought you'd call him your ward. Or else say he was fostered-- [ but her ways are different to these ways. to call someone a mother, it has a hard definition in her mind. it does not diminish the love of adoption or fostering. ]

Besides, this world proves itself full of strange magicks. Cousins younger than they should be. People pulled from all manner of times. I thought -- perhaps -- you spoke of a child you'd not yet had. It would have been difficult to notice indeed.

[ sansa has been skittish about many things. but not this. what is childbirth, but another fact of life? ]