Ah, well. Jack Sparrow had found luck with this one. Alayne survived by simple tenets. Namely, pandering to the egos of others and making herself as painless a conversational partner as possible. Polite and attentive, that was Alayne Stone.

Sansa Stark, too, under all those lies.

"Please, Captain. Tell me what it was a-tapping on your boat."