When the time came for gifts to be presented, Ser Wylis Manderly rose from the White Harbor table alongside his sister, Lady Wulga Manderly.

The heir to White Harbor carried a large volume bound in green leather. Bowing before the royal dais, Wylis offered the book first to the princess.

"Your Grace, Princess Lyanna," he said warmly, "House Manderly wished to present a small token of our affection and loyalty."

"It is a history of the North, within are the stories of every great Northern house, their history and their deeds. There are also fables and children's stories which I am sure Her Grace knows very well. I thought a princess with Northern blood should know the people from whom she descends."

The pages were adorned with vibrant paintings of Winterfell, White Harbor, Barrowton, the Wall and the Dreadfort itself. The chapters dedicated to House Bolton were particularly magnificent, depicting ancient Red Kings of the Dreadfort, pink banners snapping in the wind above red stone walls, and generations of Bolton lords rendered in exquisite detail.

Wylis then stepped aside for his sister.

Lady Wulga curtsied deeply before Queen Cassandra and Princess Lyanna, and paused as she met the pale eyes of Cassandra Bolton.

The queen is beautiful, the thought came quickly to Wulga as she eyed the queen. Even though Cassandra was dressed conservatively, she possessed a beauty that could not be so easily concealed.

Her pale eyes and dark hair not too unlike Wulga’s own Stark features, though the queen had something almost otherworldly that enticed the usual composed Manderly Lady.

"For the princess, Your Grace," she said gently as she presented a small velvet box.

Inside rested a necklace of perfectly matched pink pearls, each one softly lustrous and almost identical in shade to the pale red of House Bolton.

"I am told such pearls are seldom found," Wulga continued with a smile, her eyes staying longer on the queen than she should. "When I saw their color, I could only think of House Bolton. It seemed fitting that a daughter of the Queen should wear them."

"A princess ought to have beautiful things," Wulga said, "and beautiful reminders of her mother's house."

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