[actually at 'hostage retrieval' sansa laughs loudly, causing visenya to to startle. sansa pets her until she calms.]

I was a hostage. I thought you would've found that out by now. The Lannisters held me captive after they murdered my father, and my brother and mother raised our banners to kill them and come get me. Arya managed to escape, but I didn't. They got traitors to murder my mother and brother, and I stayed there in the Red Keep with them until that king was killed and someone else took me away with him in all the fuss. The Queen Regent blamed me and put a bounty on my head, so I had to hide as Alayne Stone. Half the Seven Kingdoms wants to kill me for the coin, and the other half needs me to drive the traitors out of our lands and restore my uncles to Riverrun, but I can't do it until the Lannisters kill each other off and my friend the Lady Margaery Tyrell takes the throne as King Tommen's queen.

So you're right, I should be working in diplomacy. I'm the rightful Lady Protector of Winterfell and Warden of the North. But I'm afraid I couldn't bake anything with the ovens we had there.

[the kitchen staff certainly wouldn't let her try. she remembers something dimly through the fog of tequila and sugar. she smiles ruefully.]

That's why I laughed, at the party, when you said I didn't get out much. I've been a prisoner of one sort or another since I was thirteen.