Sansa wakes up in her bedchamber in the Eyrie. She is leading a lonley existence there with only Robert for company. Lysa keeps a small household, and Petyr is hardly ever there, shuttling from one lord to another to assert his authority. Many of the lords of the Vale resent his position as Lord Protector. Yohn Royce is close to open revolt over Lysa's failure to aid Robb, and he has the support of House Waynwood, House Redfort, House Belmore, and House Templeton. To make matters worse, the mountain clans are being particularly troublesome and Lord Eon Hunter died so suddenly that his two younger sons are accusing his older son of murdering him. Deciding she will not get back to sleep that night, Sansa goes to her window and sees it is snowing. This is the first time she has seen snow since leaving Winterfell. She dresses and goes outside to enjoy it. She starts making snowballs, but has no one to use them on so she starts building a castle instead. After awhile, she realizes she is building Winterfell. She has trouble making the bridges between the keeps, until Petyr appears and tells her to pack the snow around a stick. Sansa is smiling by now, and they finish the castle together. She throws a snowball at him when they are done. Petyr quips it was unchivalrous, and Sansa retorts that so was making her believe she was going home. Petyr leans in to kiss her. Sansa yields for a moment, but is then outraged. As she protests, Robert enters the garden. He sees the castle and decides to have his doll knock it down. Sansa reaches for his arm, but gets his doll instead, ripping the head off. Robert begins to shake violently. Petyr calls for Maester Colemon, who arrives soon after to sedate Robert. Sansa places the doll's head on a stick and mounts it on one of the walls of her castle before stalking off.
Marillion comes late in the afternoon to summon Sansa before Lady Lysa. Sansa thinks she is to be punished for destroying Robert's doll, but Lysa is in a rage over Petyr's kiss and thinks Sansa was responsible. Lysa rages about how Catelyn teased him when they were younger. She mentions a particular time when Catelyn danced with him and then rebuffed his kisses. He drank and passed out afterwards and Lysa went to comfort him. They had sex, and even though Petyr called her "Cat" before going to sleep, she stayed with him all night.1 She thinks Sansa is trying to steal him like Catelyn did. She continues to rage about how Petyr was sent away, not because of the duel with Brandon, but because he got Lysa pregnant. Hoster made her have an abortion. Lysa grabs Sansa by the wrist, drags her to the Moon Door, and makes her look out at the nothingness beyond. Petyr comes in and tries to stop Lysa, but she is delirious with rage and grief now. She screams that she is the only woman who was ever true to Petyr. She got him his first post, and she put the Tears of Lys in Jon's wine at Petyr's request to stop Robert from being fostered somewhere. The letter to Catelyn stating that the Lannisters did it was Petyr's idea too. Petyr finally talks her away from the edge and gets her to let go of Sansa. He tells Lysa he has only ever loved one woman, Catelyn, before shoving her out the Moon Door. Marillion looks on in shock and horror as Petyr tells Sansa to let the guards in and tell them Marillion has just killed Lysa.
