Sonya actually laughed at that, both from amusement and surprise. Even if Tyrion didn't say that he was from a powerful family, she would've guessed it easily looking at the state of his clothes, so that his sister was a woman of influence could easily come to mind as well.
"Well, I'm very much a woman, though I try hard to have others not think of me as such." Rather a task frankly, and one she's grown very skilled at. "She's half right. I had a twin brother, but my dad was fighting in and out of a war till we were eleven or twelve. He probably felt it easier just raising me the same as Danny."
She drained half her cup, not wanting to spill dirty laundry about her mom's affair with alcohol. "I had anger issues as a kid and dad let me learn how to box so I'd take it out on a bag instead of a person."
They had no idea how that training would save her in the end-save them all.