"He could have, but he did not, and I'd have never accepted him," Jon Stark had steel in his voice. "It shows Lord Sunderland's inability to keep his family in line - which means his word doesn't hold sway and can't be trusted. The problem is, what Loren did was probably with the tacit understanding of his lordly nephew, if not his direct order. Regardless, nobody else would dare to touch a single hair of my messengers after this."