[He switches over to audio, because some things are easier to explain that way.]

This place does strange things sometimes. Not just with showing memories, but other things too. There was a time when many of us were ourselves but not, the way we could have been if something in our lives had been different. I was... [He can't quite bring himself to use the name Aemon Targaryen, but Ned knows most of it anyway.] I knew my parents, both of them, and my father's first two children. I still remember those things, even if they didn't really happen. So in a way, I did know a version of her.