It’s his family’s responsibility to keep all the women in the Sturmfrost line safe… right up until they start to hallucinate. It’s the lack of a bond that causes it; their family line is tied the most closely to the direwolves, but none of the rightful rulers have bonded, not for generations. Eventually, they all go mad. That’s their destiny. And watching them, waiting for them to lose themselves to it, unable to step in or even fucking say anything: That’s his.
