Arya thought that over carefully as well. Something really was ringing a bell. She must have heard this story before. Maybe it hadn't been her mother who had told it; maybe it had been in school at some point. In any case, she gave a slow nod.

"So he was an actual ruler, then, and not a jumped-up knight." Why does she remember something about the prince wanting to be a knight? It's not like that would be important to the story. She thinks. "Someone who would actually think of his people first."