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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] godsays 2013-09-04 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
We're supposed to be better. Instead, we're just used.
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[personal profile] godsays 2013-09-04 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes.

But worse: we let it happen.
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[personal profile] godsays 2013-09-04 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Because we're afraid that otherwise we'd have nothing at all.
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[personal profile] godsays 2013-09-05 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
What's that worth if you're alone?
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[personal profile] godsays 2013-09-06 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
It can't make someone love you.
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[personal profile] godsays 2013-09-08 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
You thought I meant fighting alone?

In that case, Mistborn are worth an army.
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[personal profile] godsays 2013-09-08 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Just because they should understand doesn't mean they do.
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[personal profile] godsays 2013-09-08 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Not completely. Not anymore.
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[personal profile] godsays 2013-09-08 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
The family you choose.
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[personal profile] godsays 2013-09-09 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't choose the family I was born to.
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[personal profile] godsays 2013-09-12 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
My father bred illegitimate children - bastards - so he could have weapons. A secret army. I was one of them.

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