@tymptir said : I am not what you wanted, but I swear to you I shall fulfill my duties as your husband as well as I can — and leave you alone as much as you wish, should that be your preference. , from tyrion to sansa .
she knows that she should not be cruel. for whatever situation she had found herself in now, it was not his fault – sansa had come to learn which lannister pulled the strings, which cruelties to blame upon joffrey, and which ones could be attributed to cersei, but this one she knew belonged to a far more diligent hand. lord tywin had not been present within the red keep for more than a few days before her dreams of escaping to highgarden with lord willas had been dashed, and the cold face of reality made to look back upon her once more from her vanity mirror.
but that does little to quell the annoyance she feels now, the insistent rage of a girl so tired of being used in whichever political arrangement she was most useful for. another fact that is not his fault, but lord tyrion is the only one offering her this quiet place of solitude – the only one offering her the ability to voice her displeasure without fear of retribution. even still, sansa eyes him much like a wolf uncertain if the hunter before her is hiding a knife behind his back.
“ none of this is to my preference, but that has never mattered much to anyone here. ” she says plainly, her emotions steeled behind practised mannerisms. if she could stand to look joffrey in the face after he'd harmed her, after he'd made her look upon her father's head upon a pike, sansa could manage this. could manage anything. “ your family enjoys killing wolves, i hope you will be kind enough to allow me the comfort of not knowing when you decide to take my head. ”
unwilling to acknowledge his willingness to acquiesce to her, as if his willingness made it better that she'd been a prisoner here ever since the day her father was killed. as if she'd ever been given a choice on whether she wanted to stay.