From Catelyn's POV at his bedside, Hoster seems to regret forcing an abortion on Lysa but also something from deeper in his past, since he seems to be addressing a woman named Tansy. Catelyn speculates Hoster fathered a bastard on a woman named Tansy. I think he did, but that it's his basard who is named Tansy as a clue he'd ordered her mother to abort her. Chapter Notes: 146 ASOS 3 Catelyn I : By Hoster's bedside, Catelyn whispers "It is a monstrous cruel thing to lose a ch

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