It's been several days since Theon had gone home to Sansa, still struggling between the pull of his two selves. Crazy is a word that's lingering in his mind and so when he sees Ned, he's convinced the Sphere is playing tricks. That it's a ghost of his guilty mind, and maybe of the part of him that misses the family he'd had. Theon had a mind to ignore it, to push it out of his mind as his heart twisted in his chest and his stomach felt like lead. He turned to walk the other direction before he instead moves to close the distance.

But once standing in front of Ned out on the street he doesn't know what to say. Should he confess all his sins, how he'd failed him? The struggle is visible in the way his face twists, hands mangled by Ramsay curling up into tight balls.

What right does he have to even speak to Ned after all that's happened?