[ a brief, careful nod. it's what she'd expected; it tallies with what alia herself had said. ]

I spoke with her. She remembers none of it, and holds that she would not have harmed you. Nor taken your life in the manner it was taken, were she in her right mind.

[ sansa had believed her. alia's mind had not been her own. if that is the case for all the wolves, how much harder will it be to find them all? ]

It seems to me some other force has taken them, some power or magic that we cannot understand. Something in the House, perhaps. The Balfours seem as upset as any one of us.