It is a common thing in your land? The ability to wield magic?

[She's intrigued enough to ask and listen, though the subject was unnerving in itself. She couldn't imagine someone having that sort of power and using it as easily as they drew breath. It seemed like something too close to the gods...

...Or the Targaryens, though their only power seemed to be taming dragons once.]

He would kill his own sister? Why? How could someone do that to their family?

[How could her own family do something similar to her? More and more, she could see the similarities between them, betrayed and battered, having lost someone they cared about because of the cruel machinations of others.

Her family may not have slit her throat, but they put a dagger in her back.]

Sometimes people cannot see past their ties to country or king. It only shows them to be cowards though, using such dishonorable means.

[She understood better than he might realize.]

He was attending the wedding of his uncle, hoping to seal an alliance that would bring more men. My husband was previously betrothed to them, the Freys, but he broke his promise to marry me. [Her fault. This was her fault.] He hoped his uncle would pacify them, but the Freys conspired with my husband's enemies.

Despite having guest right, they were killed during the wedding feast. He and my brother.