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[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

[Jesse is gone. Her pack is abandoning her again, and though she knows her first pack, her first family are dead and gone, she knows just as well that time and death mean nothing to the Admiral. He can show her them. He can show her all of them.

Maybe he can show her Jesse, too.]

If you know someone named Nan, or Nymeria, or Weasel or Salty or Cat or Beth or Underfoot or Arry or even Arya Stark--

[She chews on her lip, knows she's doing it and doesn't care enough to make herself stop.]

I'm here. Who can hear me?

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[therearenomenlikeme]

Arya Stark.

Exactly how many names do you have?

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

Enough to disappear.

I didn't want you.

[therearenomenlikeme]

Then you should have been more specific.

Still a prisoner?

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

Still missing a swordhand?

[therearenomenlikeme]

Still got your tongue, I see. I'm surprised someone hasn't had the foresight to cut it out of your mouth by now. I can't be the first man tempted to do so.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

Everyone's smarter than you. They know they wouldn't survive it.

[therearenomenlikeme]

You're becoming more vicious the more I see of you. How proud your parents must be.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

[WOW JAIME]

If you were here, I'd cut off your other hand!

[therearenomenlikeme]

[FEELINGS SLAYER]

But I'm not. So your...very potent feelings of revenge will have to go unmet.

How troubling that must be for you.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

I'm going to see you again, only I know you, and you won't recognize me.

And then I'm going to put a knife in your eye.

[therearenomenlikeme]

That hurts my feelings, Arya. Especially when my family has been nothing but hospitable to the Starks.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

Got to hell, camel cunt.

Robb should have killed you.

[therearenomenlikeme]

Robb never got the chance. Or so I hear.

Do dead people write into you too? We could have an entire family reunion on our hands.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

You think you're so much better than everyone. You're just a sister-fucking coward.

[therearenomenlikeme]

There's no call for that kind of language.

But yes, you're right.

I am better than everyone.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

You only think you are. If you were, Robb wouldn't have beaten you. You'd still have your hand. But he did, and you don't.

[therearenomenlikeme]

And yet he's dead, his army is scattered, Winterfell is burned and I'm still here. I'd like to think that puts me just slightly ahead of him on the betterment scale.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

You shut up! You shut up about him! [Him, and Winterfell, and everything that she holds dear.]

[therearenomenlikeme]

[Miraculously, the Kingslayer does indeed shut up. If he were more emotional there might have been sadness or pity in his eyes.

But he's a closed book, and simply waits for Arya to calm herself down]


Truth, you will learn, is a far sharper weapon than a sword.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

[She'd be angrier if she saw pity from him, so maybe it's for the best. As it is, she's not screaming any longer - but that fury is still there.]

Fear is even sharper.

[And by the only god that matters, she will make them fear her.]

[therearenomenlikeme]

Try as you might, someone has already beaten you towards wringing every last bit of fear I had left in me.

Not that I think you'll be leaving this ship soon enough to do it.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

You don't know anything. I'm going to leave, and you won't even realize I'd been gone.

And I'll find new ways to make you scared.

[therearenomenlikeme]

If you'll permit me a word of advice.

Don't go around telling someone you're going to skewer them and hang their heads on a pike or ram a poker up their arse. It takes away from the anticipation of the moment. Real killers do, and let their reputations speak for themselves.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

If you'll permit me.

When you tell someone to expect one thing, they don't see another when it comes.

[therearenomenlikeme]

But you've just told me that.