They're older. It's been at least several years, I believe. They've grown up.

[It had broken Ned's heart to see it, in Sansa especially. Claire might not have known them before their lives were turned upside down, but she always had a sense that they were so much older than they were.]

May I ask what you remember? Do you remember the Storm? And... before?

[The cause of the wounds, and maybe his death.]