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Who: Sansa Stark and anyone.
Broadcast: Video. Fleetwide.
Action: Find her on the Blue Fish, if you like.
When: Midday.

[ by all accounts, sansa stark has survived. she now lives on an armoured ship. her brothers are nearby -- alongside one brother's devoted friends, who have all been more kind to her kin than she can put to words. although nothing so much as approaches normal, she's beginning to feel settled. stability creeps in from the corners.

and this allows her to ask a question of her fleetmates: ] Is there any means by which I might find spare cloth and thread? And needles, too, of course. The ships give us so much, but I'm not certain -- [ not certain they can give me these. she does not understand their magic, nor the purchasing power of her device. ]

I like to embroider. I should like to do it again, if I could. [ but without a handmaiden to bid fetch these things, she doesn't know how to begin. perhaps it's as simple as looking in the correct spot -- but she was never raised to procure or purchase anything in her life. ]

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[Shyly, and with some caution (and some congestion, actually):]

Is wool of any use?

[ sweet dorothy! sansa wants to at least appear in high spirits if she's to speak with a child. she puts on her best face. ]

It might be. In a pinch. Are you certain you'd want to part with it, however?

[Oh good, Sansa seems to like that idea.]

I have a little spare. You could probably do something pretty with what I could give.

[She...has a magical never-ending ball of wool. Handy in situations like this.]

I don't often work with wool. [ she rarely wore it: her dresses, before alayne stone, had been silk. finest lace. ] But I am pleased to try -- if you'd be so kind.

I would love to be so kind! [She's really very bored. Although--] Do you need it right away, though? I think I'm sort of grounded.

-- Grounded? [ what is this word? ] Is anything the matter?

Oh-- I fell into a snowdrift, and people got mad at me. [Achoo. She may have skipped a step in that process.] I think they're afraid if I go out again I may freeze to death.

[ sansa stark is afraid of a great many things, but snow is not one of them.

mildly: ] Were you wearing your boots? Your cloak?

I was definitely wearing a cloak and boots! Really, I think they're overreacting. I'm in excellent health.

[And if you believe that she has a bridge in her back pocket, somewhere.]

But are you accustomed to the cold?

I come from a place where it's winter all the time. But they didn't let me bring any warm clothes with me from home.

All the time?

[ unwittingly, dorothy has tripped upon a sweet sort of comparison. sansa grows enthusiastic. ] Winters are long, back home. But we haven't had one in a long while. Even so, where -- where I'm from, it snows even in summer.

Really? That sounds like a very cold place. Have you never been to the beach, then? How long do your winters get?

[ she's about to inform dorothy that she's seen the sea-shore -- but that it's a poorly and dirty place, so she hasn't done more than stand with the royal entourage when they watched myrcella's ship leave from king's landing.

but then a second question comes, and it's far safer to answer: ] As long as years. As short as months. Before the recent snows started, it hadn't been winter in nearly ten years. But then it always snowed in Winterfell regardless.

[So very, very cold, and not really the sort of place Katie would enjoy at all. She likes the snow. She also likes when it goes away again.]

I suppose you'd get tired of making snowmen, wouldn't you? What sort of things do you do to pass the time?

[ almost conspiratorial: ] Snowball battles. A-and I like to make castles when the snow is good and sticky.

[Katie grins widely. Hallelujah, you have a playful side.]

Castles are fun! How big did you make yours?

On occasion, their towers were half-as-tall as me. So long as there's room in the courtyard, a whole village could be made.

Ahh, that sounds like so much fun. I liked making snowmen armies standing outside mine, but I'd never let them in.

Are they the enemy's armies, then? Mayhaps you should make armies of your own. Great snow knights and horsemen.

I'd like to! But I never had much room before. [She brightens.] Maybe once I'm not grounded I'll go and make a huge castle here and show you.

[And then she was sick until they left planet. oops.]

I -- [ part of her wants to refuse. but the rest? the parts of her growing stronger with every day spent alongside her brothers? ] I would like that. I would like that a lot.

[Katie smiles brilliantly at her.]

...I'll bring wool the moment I can.

Until then -- take care, Dorothy. And may the Seven keep you.

[She smiles and is about to hang up before she remembers, clicking her fingers.]

Oh! Which ship are you on? So I know where to bring it all!

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