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ʟᴀᴅʏ sᴀɴsᴀ sᴛᴀʀᴋ: ᴀʟᴀʏɴᴇ sᴛᴏɴᴇ ([personal profile] steeledskin) wrote in [community profile] eachdraidh2014-05-20 11:17 pm

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Dear fellows and members of the Seelie court -- [ the voice which addresses the locket is composed and clear and perfectly conscientious. but the girl whose image accompanies the voice looks a little less than all those things. her dark-dyed hair is fastened in an uncommonly simple braid...and if one looks very closely, she can be seen to have a haggard look about her. she's somewhere outside and all her caution is bent at hiding a panic she doesn't want to share with strangers. nor with those few genuinely waiting on her return. ]

I don't want to alarm any of you. Indeed, I speak to the very opposite of that effect. It's -- [ her gaze flickers 'off-screen' for a moment ] -- it's Alayne Stone. Those of you who are acquaintances [ not friends ] ought to know that I've found myself...left behind. I'm sorry. It should not have happened. But I suspect I won't make Caer Glaem again for some time. [ the fault of the matter is a little trickier than that, but she knows better than to play with implications. so after a steadying breath, she presses onwards. ] Or we won’t -- because I'm not alone. [ i have nymeria, she thinks but doesn’t dare to say. just like how sansa wants to speak directly to those who know her for who she really is -- but instead: ] I have a knight with me.

Don't I, Ser Gendry? [ and she twists her locket, letting it capture the surly blacksmith who stands a few paces away from her with an irritated expression. his armour is dented and blooded and the man sags with an obvious exhaustion. ser gendry is a man who looks and feels beaten, but it does not stop him from standing tall. he is a talisman of sorts: a warning, to any sansa fears might prey upon what would otherwise be a journey fraught with vulnerability. ser gendry is here; she is protected, albeit not happily so. he at last looks towards her and her locket and grumbles an unhappy agreement to her statement, which is accompanied by a nod. ]

A lady needn’t despair when she’s so well accompanied. Instead, my thoughts are with the returned; I pray the High Queen’s desired prize was taken without steep costs or losses. [ following this, there is no formal farewell. no official sign-off. her attention lingers, perhaps waiting for one or two responses in particular. ]

( ooc; sansa and gendry are now officially stranded and making their long way back to caer glaem -- and it’ll take them at least two months, though they’ll be reachable by locket at their respective ic inboxes. but for now, responses to this post will receive replies from one or the other or both!)
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[personal profile] pontificus 2014-05-21 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
[For her part, she is well but drained of energy. Many have come back injured, and she is tired from trying to help. Her hair is loose and strands stick out here and there. She is not as well kept as she is normally. This news comes even more heavily. For two of her closest friends (yes, friends, Sansa) are stranded.]

Tell me what I can do, and I will have it done immediately. [This goes to either of them, concern laced in each word.]
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[personal profile] bullhorned 2014-05-21 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
Nothing. [His answer comes testily, hinting at a stubbornness and anger he hasn't shown her since she first tried to get him to dance. But now it had been fanned into a fire that he couldn't even quell for Lucrezia, no matter how fond he might be of her. He follows his abrupt answer with a more evenly worded one.]

You can keep an eye out on Arya. She went and found you like I asked, didn't she?
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[personal profile] pontificus 2014-05-27 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
She did. She was very helpful. [And cute. But Lucrezia won't say that.]
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[personal profile] bullhorned 2014-05-28 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Was she? [He snorts.] That don't sound like her. Might be the wrong girl showed up at your door.
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[personal profile] pontificus 2014-06-03 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
She was eager to do something, so I gave her things to do. She seemed to lighten at the idea of not sitting around, and I would not begrudge her her age when she has two hands and was willing.
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[personal profile] bullhorned 2014-06-04 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Aye. She's not your usual highborn girl. You'd think she was born in the gutter like me.
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[personal profile] pontificus 2014-06-06 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
If you are implying that I cannot get dirty, I shall see that challenge when next I see you. [With a quirk of her head she cannot keep the serious turn, a smirk soon following.]
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[personal profile] bullhorned 2014-06-06 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Aye, would you now? I might like to see you meet that challenge. Mayhaps a roll in the mud might do good for you.
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[personal profile] pontificus 2014-06-06 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
[She can't help the lascivious grin at her next words, knowing the double meaning and basking in it.]

I can be dirty with the best of them.
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[personal profile] bullhorned 2014-06-06 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
The best of them, eh? They anyone I know?

[He latches onto her double meaning and plays along, even though he can't help but feel just a bit jealous at the notion.]
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[personal profile] pontificus 2014-06-06 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
Well if highborns do not lie in gutters, then he must not be highborn. He would be very dirty, the dirtiest even.

[And she toys even more. There is none she would rather choose than to roll in the dirt with him, but she does not say this. Instead she is coy and smirking, too devious to be innocent.]
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[personal profile] bullhorned 2014-06-06 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
Would he? Then I do know him. Dirty bugger, him. Never took a bath in his life. He smelled so much, not even rats or flies would have anything to do with him.

[Intentionally missing the point? Perhaps. Gendry is rarely one to flirt, much less in this situation, or with another highborn lady so near.]
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[personal profile] pontificus 2014-06-06 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[She laughs sweetly, much as she did the night they met.]

Good thing there are baths in the castle. One can go from a mud puddle to a bath quite quickly.
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[personal profile] bullhorned 2014-06-06 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
Aye, plenty in the castle, but not a one to be found out here. Likely the flies will be just as disgusted with me when I've made my return.

[Not that he wasn't above a dip in a river or stream. But now he knew that it was quite a bit different from a real and proper hot bath. He'd never felt so absurdly clean as he had after the one she'd arranged for him.]
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Then we shall get dirty then bathe. [Oh, the implications.]
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[personal profile] bullhorned 2014-06-07 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
As you say, m'lady.

[It might sound a dismissal, but for the way he says it.]
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[It makes her laugh and miss him all the more.]

Do come back safely, Ser Gendry.

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[personal profile] pontificus 2014-05-27 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I endeavor to do this always. Is there something I can do for you?
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But there is nothing else I can do for you? [She sounds so distraught.]
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Are you heading toward the station? [It's some hope that they are, though she wonders just how deep behind enemy lines they are.]
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[personal profile] pontificus 2014-06-03 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Then I hope to see you soon and pray for your safety, Alayne.