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Arya Stark ([personal profile] fearcutsdeeperthanswords) wrote2014-04-09 10:04 pm

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[Leaving the bloody mess behind her in her little rented room, Mercy rushed down five flights. She had some lines to say, and Izembaro would have her head if she was late for her entrance. She wouldn't be late: the first act would finish soon, and she'd have plenty of time to catch her breath and say her silly lines. It would be harder not to roll her eyes at Bobono's fake cock.

As she ran through the day's heavy fog, though, something changed. Shifted. She couldn't tell what, at first, only that the fog was not so thick as it had been. And then, all a sudden, the fog was gone. And so was Braavos.

Skidding to a halt, Marcy stared down the long hall ahead of her, lined on either side with doors. This was not the way to the Gate. This was not the way anywhere.

Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, she thought to herself, and started forward again. Some magic was at work, here. She had to sort out what magic would send her back - before she was late. That was all there was for it.

One of the doors looked familiar, and she came to a halt in front of it, staring. This is Mercy's door. Reaching out, she pushed the door open, and there was Mercy's little room - only the spot where she'd left Raff's body was plain wood. The blood that had sprayed across her floor boards when she cut his throat was gone, too. But on her bed was something new. Closing the door behind her, Mercy picked up the queer black box, turning it over.]


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[No sooner does she accidentally send the text to the network does she manage to turn on the video: there's a flash of a shaven head, a shapeless brown dress of wool, even the blue hempen rope that serves as her belt. A flash, and no more. Her fingers find the off button, and she slips the device into her pocket. It doesn't belong in this room, but neither does she. Only Mercy does, and Mercy wouldn't spend time looking over such a strange thing. So she turns and leaves again, looking up and down the hall before picking a direction. Mercy is bubbly and sweet, but Arya knows how to disappear.

She follows her feet, wearing Mercy's confusion and her sweet smile, but looking with Arya's eyes. There is something familiar here, only she knows Mercy has never been in a place like this. The problem is, she doesn't know when she would have been, either.

When she reaches the deck she gasps, and for a few moments, Mercy is too afraid to move. It's the whole of the sky, and Mercy is afraid it will swallow her whole. But that, she knows, is silly. She forces herself forward, finding a secluded spot by the rail where she can crouch and pull the communicator out for a better look. Mercy wouldn't bother with this strange thing, but she understands that many things are worth knowing.]
mercurialize: (Just chatting)

[personal profile] mercurialize 2014-04-25 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it's kind of like a ship. Except it doesn't make port nearly as often, I'd guess. And, you know, no water.

[Thank you, Captain Obvious.]
patheticvillain: (ʭ bring me the no-good workhorse)

[personal profile] patheticvillain 2014-04-25 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's not about to question her enjoyment of bacon. Bacon's delicious, and he doesn't have it in him right now to be suspicious of her. She's back; that means a lot. A surprising amount more than he'd have expected. They're not close, but she's . . . important, somehow.]

[He rubs her bald head, since he can't ruffle hair that isn't there.]
For luck, [he explains, and grins again.]

What else do you want? We've got a whole kitchen. Where I highly recommend you eat every day, by the way.
indispensible: (◎ i'm building with my body & soul)

[personal profile] indispensible 2014-04-25 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Not far. A few moments.

[She doesn't look behind her, either. She can hear Arya coming, just as she can smell the freshness of the CES slipping under the door to the entrance.]

[When they get there, quickly enough, she opens it with her earring and holds the door open wide.]


Go. Run, little wolf.
myresponsibility: (If you sing Paparazzi I will scream.)

[personal profile] myresponsibility 2014-04-25 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think she'd love that.

[And then you're getting sort of a weird look, because he had not been expecting that.]

Mercy?
indispensible: (◎ show me home)

[personal profile] indispensible 2014-05-05 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vin hears the wolf.]

[She does not know wolves. They didn't live on Scadriel, not proper wolves; certainly not direwolves. There wasn't the environment to support them, just mist and desert and dust and cities and ashfall. Mountains sprinkled with volcanoes in the distance. Not any kind of land for wolves.]

[She recognizes the sound of the wolf from being here, from living alongside Nymeria. When she hears, she smiles, small and grim; and when Arya runs off, she follows, swift and steady, though she doesn't run.]

[There was never any doubt that this was Arya. But if there had been, it would be extinguished now. The other half of her soul is out there, howling for her.]
patheticvillain: (ʭ am i waiting for godot?)

[personal profile] patheticvillain 2014-05-06 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Capon? [He looks at her blankly.] I have no idea what capon is. Is it fish?

Cassel. And my last name's Sharpe, like your teeth.
mercurialize: (Girl say whaaaaaat)

[personal profile] mercurialize 2014-05-06 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
None that I've met.

[He scratches his chin a moment in thought]

So you're a mummer? In training?
myresponsibility: (I'm an awkward possum.)

[personal profile] myresponsibility 2014-05-08 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Okay. [He will just. Go with that. It seems easier than trying to convince you otherwise.

Also potentially safer, in the highly likely event you somehow got your hands on something sharp.]


Do you know where you are?
fire_punk: (pic#7199185)

video

[personal profile] fire_punk 2014-05-09 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
[He can hear her uncertainty but he lets it go for now.]

I'm glad you're back.
myresponsibility: (Chalkboards are more dramatic.)

[personal profile] myresponsibility 2014-05-10 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
It doesn't need them. A machine - probably, I mean, I guess no one really knows - makes it move.
myresponsibility: (Minority Report has nothing on this.)

[personal profile] myresponsibility 2014-05-13 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
It's... kind of hard to explain. The guy in charge isn't great at sharing, and a lot of our tech's not really from the same place as his, so. It's hard.
indispensible: (◎ babe we'll keep moving on)

[personal profile] indispensible 2014-05-14 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[There isn't anything for Vin to do or say here. She isn't part of this. The reunion doesn't belong to her. She no longer has anyone in particular to be reunited with. For a moment, she misses TenSoon with a pang that surprises her; but TenSoon was never a part of her soul. It isn't the same.]

[Instead of dwelling, she watches the movement of the direwolf's muscles under her fur. Such strength. She is so much stronger than Arya looks, but they're the same underneath it, Vin is very sure.]

[She will forgive you, she is part of your heart. Vin doesn't say it. It's not her place to say.]
indispensible: (◎ i can feel you)

[personal profile] indispensible 2014-05-19 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[She snorts, holding out her wrist for Nymeria to sniff, to get an understanding of.]

You're welcome. But don't thank me for it again. This place belongs to you as much as it does to me.
patheticvillain: (ʭ but no one else)

[personal profile] patheticvillain 2014-05-19 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[A smile is born and dies in a few seconds. He doesn't like that, and grins harder to keep her from focusing on it.]

Were they as good as me?

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