I gave it up so we could ally ourselves with a rival queen. It wasn't a popular decision among our people but we needed her armies to fight a war. It was a difficult choice to bend the knee but it was the best decision at the time. No one wants to make a decision like that.

( Maybe Sansa could have found a way out of it but she hadn't been the one to go south, had she? No, it had been him as the King in the North and he returned as Warden of the North but with dragons and an army. It was what they needed. )

Have you ever had to make a decision like that?