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Arya Stark ([personal profile] fearcutsdeeperthanswords) wrote2013-09-01 05:36 pm

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[With all these people graduating lately and all her wardens gone off, Arya has been doing a lot of thinking. She's wormed her way into the CES - she always seems to find a way - and is sitting against Nymeria, using the direwolf as a pillow. She's wearing a modern looking zipper hoodie over her usual threadbare attire; the zipper is open, but the hood is up, and on its top are two fuzzy, gray wolf ears. There's dirt on her face when she clicks the feed on, in a swoop from her cheek to her jaw; on the other side she's managed to accumulate a couple scratches. She doesn't seem to notice either.]

There's no one left from Westeros, besides me. Tyrion's gone. Viserys used to be here; I don't think there are a lot who remember him. Jon Snow was here, too. But he left.

[They all left is what she doesn't say out loud. She scratches at her jaw, somehow missing the dirt.]

I've been here a long time, though. I checked - it's two years, now. [She doesn't pause; she's already let that sink in.] Your worlds are all different from mine. You treat people like babies till they're old; you call them kids until they're eighteen, twenty. In Westeros, and Essos, and all over in my world - a girl is grown when she's flowered. [She makes a face, because it's a dumb euphemism, but it's ingrained.] My brother was a king when he was fifteen. He wasn't a boy, he had a beard and led men and killed his enemies. [And he died.

She pauses for a moment, looking up as a shadow passes over her, presumably a cloud.]


When I was littler, I wanted to know if I could build castles, or be a High Septon, or be a councilor to a king. He said I could marry a king, and my sons could be Septons and builders and knights and lords. Well I'm not getting married, and I'm not having sons, not ever.

Is that what it's like in your worlds, too? I don't mean, do they say no and you do it anyway, that's not any different. Are girls allowed to be rulers and builders and fighters where you all are from?
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[personal profile] indispensible 2013-09-02 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Then what do you want to be?
indispensible: (◎ empire; build it higher)

[personal profile] indispensible 2013-09-02 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
They were afraid of me.
indispensible: (◎ can't bear to face the truth)

[personal profile] indispensible 2013-09-02 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Because I didn't give up.

Because I wasn't afraid of them.
indispensible: (◎ always the one who has to)

[personal profile] indispensible 2013-09-02 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Over and over and over. Yes.

I have strength, too. But he didn't, not in the same way, and they were afraid of him, too. Because he didn't fear them. He didn't fear death.

[He loved whole-heartedly, all-consumingly; he loved his people. She doesn't say this.]
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[personal profile] indispensible 2013-09-02 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
People who wanted to use other people as things. As tools or slaves or - or chattel.
indispensible: (◎ so we might live anew)

[personal profile] indispensible 2013-09-02 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
So was I.

You will be.
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[personal profile] indispensible 2013-09-02 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I had help. From a lot of people, but mostly they showed me how to help myself. And I really, really didn't want to die.
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[personal profile] indispensible 2013-09-02 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vin returns it. She thinks she understands.]

There's power in being intangible. A thing in the night.

What kind of ghost are you?
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[personal profile] indispensible 2013-09-02 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
What happened when you did?
indispensible: (◎ this is as good as it gets)

[personal profile] indispensible 2013-09-02 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her lips curve into a very, very small smile.]

You think your power is dead?
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[personal profile] indispensible 2013-09-02 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
No.

Who is it you want to kill now?
indispensible: (◎ come hell or high water)

[personal profile] indispensible 2013-09-02 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[This doesn't fit in her head for a minute, until she switches family to Kelsier and feels the beginnings of rage.]

And who are you protecting?
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[personal profile] indispensible 2013-09-02 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's that smile again. Approving.]

They give you strength?

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