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One - Well Honed Thought

Who: Tyrion Lannister
Broadcast: Fleet-wide
Action: Aboard the Marvisa
When: Er, nowish.

[When the communication device is turned on, you are greeted with a scarred, bearded face that has seen better days, topped with golden curls mixed with black, and mis-matched eyes besides. Despite this rather ... interesting visage, the eyes are mixed with some sort of dark humor and his mouth is crooked with a flat sort of smile. The voice, however, ah, flows like honey.]

Good day, my fellow travelers. I apologize for my ... current state of less than noble stature, but I assure you that a wash and a shave will do no one any favors. I find myself at more of a loss over silken robes onto what ... precisely I am doing here. I have some knowledge - I am on something called a space ship, I am to be an engineer for such a vehicle but ... not entirely sure where, and I am here to entertain people. And before I forget my manners further I am Tyrion Lannister. If that name means anything to you, knowing that I have been thrown into such a role probably amuses you, so I appear to be ahead on my designated purpose on this show.

For the rest of you, I have two questions. One ... is it to be considered amusing when my lack of practical application in managing such a metal beast sends us crashing into some other spacial object, and two, ... there is wine here, is there not?

[A sigh, and a hand rubbing across his beard.] Not a great deal is needed. Just a glass. Just so I can ... stop breathing heavily and think we are all about to suffocate from the lack of oxygen from apparently being surrounded by an airless ... vacuum, I believe the word is, popping into my mind. Yes.

[He smiles, and it's not a bad smile at that.] Pleasure to meet you all, by the by.

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...Learning to be more ... people like? [Oh, this has to be dug into further.]

Would you be less of a person? More of a ... [He peered curiously at the boy.] Wight, perhaps?

I'm not less of a person. I'm not a mortal. I'm a spirit. Well... I'm a spirit who is a bit mortal-ish. People think I'm child like, innocent and unaware, but I know how dark the world can be.

[He cants his head the other way.]

I don't know what a wight is, though. What's a wight?

[Tyrion's gaze narrowed thoughtfully, and his mind drifted to Sansa - the mix of naive and steel, all in one. This boy had some of her, or the other way around.]

A wight is a horrific beast out of my childhood fairy tales. A pale thing that eats others in the night.

Well, I am very pale. Everyone tells me that.

[Washed out, faded, bleached.]

All new, faded for her.

[He draws back from that line of emotion/thought/feeling. It won't help now. He's gone and maybe happier. Maybe fixing things. Maybe not.]

I don't eat people. Demons can eat souls. I could do that, if I was a demon and a monster. Or, I'd try, and then Cassandra and Cullen would kill me. They promised to. I don't want to do that.

[He is all rather pale, at that. But not quite pale enough for a wight.]

Now that's an interesting little phrase ... what does it mean?

[Cole, you might be ready to move away but Tyrion is always one to move forward.]

Well then you aren't a very good demon at all. Neither a wight. I suppose you're just someone who wants to be good. Welcome to most of humanity.

[Cole stares at the screen blankly, his expression suggesting that he has no idea what Tyrion's talking about.]

I want to help people. That's what I want to do.

[Tyrion's lips twist briefly - he does seem to have this reaction on people.]

Well ... I am glad that someone feels that desire.

I was Compassion and Mercy before Cole. I can't imagine not wanting to help people.

[Now just wait a moment here.]

How can you be virtues?

I'm not, now. Though Command called me Compassion, so maybe I still am. But I'm more than Compassion now.

I wasn't a person before. I was just a spirit.

So now you are ... a spirit and a person all in one? [Hm.] Does that ever get confusing? Do you find yourself going back and forth?

I'm both. Why would I have to go back and forth?

But... people can see me now. And remember me. That changed. They didn't used to see me.

And I feel more now. And that's... not always nice.

[He squirms a little and looks somewhere else.]

You were kind to her. It meant a lot. You gave her a choice when everyone else took them from her.

I do not know. I am not sure what it means, to be both spirit and man.

Although I suppose being visible might be a big part of it.

[He pauses, before he smirked tiredly.] Ah yes, emotions. Always tricky things.

[... and suddenly he pales.] ..what - who are you talking about?

I don't think I know what it means, just that it is. That I am.

[He tilts his head and blinks.]

I can not talk about her, if it makes you uncomfortable. Stark red hair and stark bright soul, shackled and masked.

You just.... are. Well, I suppose that is a more truthful answer than most.

[Tyrion stared at Cole for a long, long time.] You must tell no one about her. Do you understand, Cole? Her life may be in great danger if other of my kith and kin come here.

[Cole stares back, solemn and serious and he nods.]

I won't tell anyone about her. I promise. I'm good at keeping secrets.

[Tyrion tipped his head down, breathing out slowly. Then he met Cole's again.]

You have my eternal gratitude, Cole.

I wouldn't want her to be hurt. She's hurt enough. More than enough.

You've hurt a lot, but it hasn't turned you to stone all the way through. You haven't inured yourself to the world.

Nor would I ... I do not look to protect her directly, but indirectly? I shall do all I can for the girl.

[A pause, and a sigh.] Haven't I? What a pity.

No. If you had, you wouldn't have asked me to keep her a secret.

Yes, I know. I am dreadfully disappointed in myself. Although I am sure now I simply have further heart-ache to look forward to. How ... delightful.

[He said, in the most sarcastic tone he could muster.]

... do you want me to come and give you a hug?

Jove and Elize say hugs make things better.

.. all right, I have to ask. Just before you do anything rash. Are you coming to hug me to assassinate me? Or do you truly wish to have a manly embrace?

I only kill people to stop them from hurting other people. Or because they're dying slowly and in pain. I don't kill people to stop them hurting from not fatal hurts anymore.

I don't know if I like hugging, but you sound sad and like you need someone there.

.... well that makes you a very compassionate murderer. I am not sure if I have heard the like.

[Even Tyrion's smile is sad.] I have always needed someone there. I have only learned lately that there is no one at all.

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