The thing Lyanna loves most in the world - after her brothers, her father, her horses, and her freedom - is her little plot in the glass garden, bursting with wildflowers rescued from the snows and seedlings Ned brought from the Vale as a gift for her and Lyanna’s very favorite, the winter roses.
Lyanna is as jealous of this garden as she is of everything she loves, pelting her brothers with clods if they try to interfere with her nurturing her plants, coaxing leaves and blooms out of the flowers and spending hours dirt-streaked and joyous while winter winds howl outside.
When he’s the only Stark in Winterfell Benjen tries to care for the flowers, he really does, but no matter what he does the flowers wither and wilt - as if they miss her as much as he does, as if they too have something inside them missing now that she’s gone.
ASOIAF, Lyanna (& Benjen)
Lyanna is as jealous of this garden as she is of everything she loves, pelting her brothers with clods if they try to interfere with her nurturing her plants, coaxing leaves and blooms out of the flowers and spending hours dirt-streaked and joyous while winter winds howl outside.
When he’s the only Stark in Winterfell Benjen tries to care for the flowers, he really does, but no matter what he does the flowers wither and wilt - as if they miss her as much as he does, as if they too have something inside them missing now that she’s gone.