fearcutsdeeperthanswords: (I am neither walker nor sleeper)
Arya Stark ([personal profile] fearcutsdeeperthanswords) wrote2014-08-27 09:39 am

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[Private to Polly]

Where are you? I found a good spot. [She's sitting on a pile of pillows, with a blanket (or maybe a dish towel) wrapped around her head like a crown. And she's grinning. Her own smile, not Mercy's pretty little thing: Arya's smiles are big and open, but they have a little bite to it. The wolf blood will always run hot in her, even when she's happy.]

[Private to Riddick]

Will you do something for me?

[Public, later]

[Still seated cross legged on her throne of pillows, Arya stares down at the device in her hands. There's an odd little look on her face, below hair that's terribly messy after she pulled off the towel-crown - like she's confused but not, knows what she wants but doesn't, like she's hovering between two worlds. She feels like she is.]

I graduated.

[The words feel strange: she's never combined them in that order, that conjugation, and the newness is unsettling. But she hasn't been afraid of new things in a long time. She can't be afraid of this.

Reaching off screen, she grabs a cookie, and lifts it up to show the camera: it has a frosting smiley face.]


Do you always get sweets? [She's been here so long, but it feels like the one thing she never fully realized. Instead of waiting for an answer - it doesn't really matter, does it, not now - she takes a bite and tosses the rest back onto it's plate.]

I'm going home. I've been here a long time, three years maybe. And I'm--

[She hasn't grown, except when she returned home. She is twelve and thirteen and fourteen and fifteen all at once, and she can't take the stillness of her existence here anymore.]

I could stay, and make a deal. I could probably kick my inmate to graduating. I could have my family back.

[She chews her lip for a moment, looking off toward the pillow and blanket forts. Finally, she just rolls her eyes and huffs out a breath. That's stupid. She won't do it.]

But I still have family. And I'm going home to find them.

So - goodbye, I guess. This was a good flood.

[She flashes a smile, wolfish and toothsome and pleased, and turns the feed off.]
robinwishes: (Rare Moment of Empathy)

[personal profile] robinwishes 2014-08-27 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey.

[ She's back to being youngest lady inmate on the boat now, but she ain' angry. ]

Good luck out there, okay?
voluntaryapnea: (small smile)

Video

[personal profile] voluntaryapnea 2014-08-27 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't know Arya well. They've only talked a couple of times. He knows that Lydia is fond of her, though. And she hasn't caused a single problem on board the Barge the entire time that he's been there that he's aware of.

He offers her a smile at her announcement.]


Good for you.
with_my_teacup: (Vogue!)

Private

[personal profile] with_my_teacup 2014-08-27 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah? Depends on what, but probably.
robinwishes: (Disappointing Dads.)

[personal profile] robinwishes 2014-08-27 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, totally. We'll skill swap. [ She's chill about it, at least. ] Go get your family, okay? Take care of 'em.
with_my_teacup: (Default)

Re: Private

[personal profile] with_my_teacup 2014-08-27 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
...yeah. I'll make sure she gets it back.

You out of here?
voluntaryapnea: (amused)

Video

[personal profile] voluntaryapnea 2014-08-27 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[He grins at that, and shrugs.]

If you're sure. You can take them home with you if you want.
with_my_teacup: (Mood-- shadow and eyeshine)

Re: Private

[personal profile] with_my_teacup 2014-08-27 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Take care of yourself. And don't come back if you don't have to, right?
with_my_teacup: (Default)

Private

[personal profile] with_my_teacup 2014-08-27 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll come take the sword.
voluntaryapnea: (half smile)

Video

[personal profile] voluntaryapnea 2014-08-27 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Gotcha.

[He has no idea what she's heading home to, but he hopes that she makes it there okay. Hopes that things will be better than whatever they'd been before. People never came to the Barge for no reason, whether they were a warden or an inmate.]

Good luck back home.
with_my_teacup: (Vogue!)

Spam?

[personal profile] with_my_teacup 2014-08-27 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[when he comes to get it he has a little wrapped up package of the breakfast frittata from that morning. Go with protein, small person.]

Honestly thought I pissed you off a little, talking about the T-X.
with_my_teacup: (Default)

Re: Spam!

[personal profile] with_my_teacup 2014-08-27 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It's just food. [He offers it in exchange.]

And I'm glad you understood me.
with_my_teacup: (Action-- Show me your eyes)

Re: Spam!

[personal profile] with_my_teacup 2014-08-27 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Any time. [He nods, simply, just the hint of a smirk because talk is easy. Change is hard. There's a wolf in Arya, though. Or vice versa. They have a similar way of seeing the world. He's glad he could share what he learned, information from one to the other.]

If I leave before Bea comes back, I'll stop at her universe and give this back personally. You sure she didn't want you to keep it, tho?
indispensible: (◎ & i follow blind)

private

[personal profile] indispensible 2014-08-27 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you going to find pack?
pvtparts: (⋙ don my clothes)

private

[personal profile] pvtparts 2014-08-27 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
And apparently a really good mood as well.

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