I believe we’re in “the lady doth protest too much” territory with Lady Dustin.
At face value, she heads into the crypts with Theon and goes on about how much she hates the Starks. It seems rational — she wanted to marry Brandon and couldn’t, then Ned and couldn’t, then her husband died at the Tower of Joy. But it also comes off as a little … on the nose. Why is she telling Theon any of this? Why does she care what he thinks or that he knows about her reasoning for doing this? It’s possible she’s feeding a rationale to Theon, knowing Theon might eventually tell the Boltons about it, at least Ramsay. In which case, Theon would parrot back something that makes Lady Dustin look rock-solid pro-Bolton.
One interesting theory I’ve seen about the crypts is that Lady Dustin is aware that Rickon and Bran Stark escaped Winterfell and hid in the crypts (getting into GNC territory here). Especially if Wyman is getting intel directly from Osha (the theory that Osha and Rickon didn’t go to Skagos but rather were sent there), the northerners might want to corroborate the crypt-hiding story. Lady Dustin is one of the few people in Winterfell who can come and go as she pleases, and one of the only ones who could go cavorting into the crypts with Theon without it raising eyebrows; she also comes to him expressly asking how to get to the crypts. So the field trip could simply be Lady Dustin eyeballing the crypts looking for proof (missing swords? those are noted) that Bran and Rickon and Co. hid there.
“That king is missing his sword,” Lady Dustin observed.
They note that Rickard and Brandon’s swords are also missing in the crypt. Theon gets all superstitious, thinking about ghosts, but what is Barbrey thinking? Maybe, “Ah, so the story is true”?
The wildcard with Barbrey Dustin is Domeric Bolton. She’s actually Roose’s former sister-in-law, and Roose’s first son was her nephew. The story is that Domeric tried to reach out to Ramsay and form a brotherly relationship (Domeric, believe it or not, was by all accounts a decent guy). Ramsay ended up murdering him (or Roose did it because he was weak and blamed Ramsay, depending on what you believe; either way, Domeric was murdered). So the question would be, which feeling within Barbrey is stronger: Hatred of the Starks for her wrecked marriage suits, or hatred of Ramsay for murdering the nephew she loved?
Read other answers by Kelsey L. Hayes on Quora:
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- If Robert Baratheon disliked being King then why didn't he abdicate the Throne to his brothers or Ned?
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