♖ 003.

[summerschild]

Who: Bran Stark and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: The Dusty Moon
When: 9/23

[Just a short broadcast, as this tiny wolf child makes some Serious Contemplations...]

What do you... What makes a person good, do you think? Is it something they can control?

[He can be found out by the stables, getting as close to the horses as he can in his chair, without rolling over their feet. He wishes so hard that he could just climb up and ride one - almost as much as he wishes he could shift into his wolf's skin, and run with the strange fox-dogs out in the desert sand. Today is not a very happy day.]

Comments

[mucked]

Heavens, no. It's one of those things you could understand straight away if the opportunity presented itself. I'm certain of it. So long as you keep your eyes peeled for goodness, it'll reveal itself. By and by.

[ a sliver of optimism from the old-world spy. ]

[summerschild]

I want to understand it now, then. I don't want to do anything else to hurt people.

How... How will I know when I see it?

[mucked]

It will shine. [ her tone softens by degrees. ] When you see it in other people, it will make them look larger than they are. Because goodness feeds us all and makes us stronger no matter who we might be. And when you see it in yourself?

[ trickier, but: ] Oh, it could be a thousand things. Heart-racing adrenaline or quiet calm. I know it in myself when I feel no inclination to falter. No stammer and no stumble. [ not that she's inclined to either of these even when lying, but there is a certain stumbling of the heart that happens. private, but aching. ]

Who have you hurt, child? [ a hard question for hard times. ]

[summerschild]

[Her words are enchanting. He wants to see that right now. He wants to be bigger and stronger than he is, and he wants to be that way because he's good, not because he's powerful.]

... The enemy ships who attacked us. I shot them, and now there are people who don't have fathers anymore because of me.

[mucked]

[ oh, bless. peggy sucks air behind her teeth and banishes her own thoughts of what families were broken during the war. families on both sides. not every german shot was a villain, and not every allied soldier was a saint.

and the boy is so young. ]

You were in the midst of a battle. You did what you had to do in order to safeguard your shipmates, yes? I know it isn't pleasant or proud - - and the very fact you worry about it tells me you must be good-hearted indeed.