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Jilly Coppercorn ([personal profile] theoniongirl) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2016-02-07 06:03 pm

The Way to a Blue Fish's Heart...

Who: Blue Fish crew and visitors
Broadcast: Maybe some accidental, but not overall
Action: The Blue Fish kitchen
When: All Day, Feb. 7


[It had been a rough month for a lot of the Blue Fish crew. From blenders to family members and lost friends and blocked credits, they'd been soldiering on through a lot. And while Jilly was new enough to have skirted by most of the drama, she was keenly aware of the underlying stress of her crewmates. She wants to help.

Sometimes, though, words aren't enough...and so she sets about taking advantage of her augment to the best of her ability. For the past month she's been collecting recipes from the datary and experimenting with the supplies provided by the Atroma. And, in the days leading up to the 7th, she quietly recruits Beverly for a pair of extra hands with some Station grocery shopping and behind-the-scenes planning.

It's not announced, but on such a small ship it's hard to miss that something is going on that day. Forgoing her usual trip to the Station for job hunting and people watching, Jilly gets up extra early and sets the kitchen in motion. Recipes are taped up on the cabinets, ingredients are gathered, and so begins a marathon of food.]


[Between the combined forces of Jilly and Beverly, the two "cooks" for the Blue Fish will be setting out food all day as a bit of a much needed holiday for their crew (and any visitors who stop by). Volunteer as a taste-tester, grab food on the run, help clean dishes between baking bouts, or simply sit and relax with your crew mates. Food therapy is a go.]
bryces_pup: (99)

[personal profile] bryces_pup 2016-02-28 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course.

[Not said with judgment, but full understanding. Riona knows all too well the value and safety of secrets. She will not push the matter if Sansa does not want to reveal it.]

I am glad to hear that. It sounds like they were an awful lot. The crown should help and be a source of refuge for its people, not fear. [Hardness lines her words, hands gripped tightly on her plate.] I'm so sorry you had to go through whatever you did with them.
steeledskin: (# it's hard to lose a chosen one)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2016-02-28 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
-- Robb defied them, you know. [ her attention drifts to that brother. ] He raised his bannermen. He goes to war for the North. He would have the Starks be kings again in their own lands, not caught beneath the Iron Throne's heel.
bryces_pup: (75)

[personal profile] bryces_pup 2016-02-28 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[The admission has Riona raise her brow.]

That takes a lot of courage - and some would say gall - to do that. My hopes to his success. I don't envy Robb's position; I've had to do something similar to that.
steeledskin: (# i unwind in your rapture)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2016-02-29 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he died -- but sansa swallows her protest and her unhappiness. now is neither the time nor the place.

instead: ]
What did you do?
bryces_pup: (72)

[personal profile] bryces_pup 2016-02-29 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
It's... a long, involved story. But the short of it is that we had to stop a teyrn named Loghain who installed himself as regent of the throne. The king and his army were engaged in battle, one I was present at. Loghain and his soldiers were supposed to charge and help stop the forces battling the king's army. But when the signal for his attack was lit... he retreated. He left the king for dead and fled back to the capital, where he declared himself regent, ruling alongside his daughter, the queen.

[It still leaves a foul taste in her mouth just thinking about it.] Loghain was paranoid, focusing on enemies that no longer existed instead of the real threat. Ferelden would have become a wasteland if we let him continue to rule. Not to mention the Fereldan nobility really did not take well to him being regent. In the end, we managed to overthrow him and install the rightful heir to the throne.

[The man she had fallen in love with, as luck had it.]
steeledskin: (# stuck in reverse)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2016-03-01 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
-- A happy conclusion, then?

[ hopeful, beyond her best judgement. ]
bryces_pup: (71)

[personal profile] bryces_pup 2016-03-02 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Riona makes a so-so gesture with her hands.]

As happy as something like that could end. [Loghain's daughter, the former queen, would argue otherwise.] Loghain had to be killed, and Ferelden's troubles weren't over even with his death. We still had an invasion to stop. [Which could only be done by slaughtering a very lovely creature called the Archdemon.] Fortunately we succeeded. The kingdom still stands, if not a bit battered and worse for wear.
steeledskin: (# and another one bites the dust)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2016-03-03 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
But in good hands, at least. [ she wants to think of a world in a better state than her own. ]
bryces_pup: (78)

[personal profile] bryces_pup 2016-03-04 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a strange smile that touches her lips. She'll have to tread a bit carefully here.]

Yes. New hands, but capable ones, once they have more experience. And those hands will have plenty of help in the meantime.
steeledskin: (# rubies and emeralds)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2016-03-06 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
-- How lovely. How fortunate. [ there's wonder in her eyes. ]
bryces_pup: (83)

[personal profile] bryces_pup 2016-03-06 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
You have the right of it, considering how poorly it could have turned out. Given how things seem to have a disposition to end badly, it's nice to remember that it doesn't always have to be that qay.
steeledskin: (# i keep wishing for something)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2016-03-07 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
You must be missing it: your home, and your lands, and all you've left behind. I'm sorry, Lady Riona.
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[personal profile] bryces_pup 2016-03-08 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
I do. [Those two words carry weeks' worth of homesickness. For all that Thedas can be kind of (read as: usually) awful, it's still home and everything and everyone she loves is there. She feels like a fish out of water here.] But I was able to meet wonderful people here, too. It's not all bad.

What of you? I understand your situation wasn't ideal, but I imagine there are those you still miss that are not here?
steeledskin: (# fire in place of a stone)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2016-03-08 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
The -- the people I miss, I have missed for some time. Long before I arrived here, my lady. [ ... ] It may be that this place is my best chance to see them again.
bryces_pup: (45)

[personal profile] bryces_pup 2016-03-09 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
[That somewhat answers her unspoken question: if Sansa had been a Ward of the Crown, then what of her brothers? Her admission makes things a little clearer, though it does leave more questions in its stead.]

I am sorry to hear that. Not that you have reunited, of course, but that it took being kidnapped and dragged into space for it to happen. Have you been separated for long?
steeledskin: (# and my path is a jungle)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2016-03-09 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
It was two years before I arrived in the fleet that I had left my home, my lady. We got news often of the North, but -- once the war began, it was hard to trust what was said.
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[personal profile] bryces_pup 2016-03-11 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Two years... That's too long. [She suspects that her being away for that length of time wasn't entirely by choice.] Was all of your family in the North when the war began?
steeledskin: (# fire in place of a stone)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2016-03-11 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
-- No, my sister and I were in the capital. A-and my Lord Father.

[ but then again that's a tricky answer. because when, exactly, did the war start? in theory, it started long before her father's head rolled. ]
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[personal profile] bryces_pup 2016-03-11 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[But she at some point became a ward of the Crown? Perhaps things work differently in Westeros, but as far as Riona understands it, that's not exactly something that happens when your father is-

...

Oh. Oh, that doesn't bode well.]


Was your sister a ward with you, under the Crown?
steeledskin: (# coal into diamonds)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2016-03-14 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Arya ran away. [ she worries her bottom lip. ] The day they -- the day we became wards, she ran away. No one knows where she's gone.

[ or whether she still lives at all. ]
bryces_pup: (134)

[personal profile] bryces_pup 2016-03-15 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Maker's breath. Is she very young?
steeledskin: (# fire in place of a stone)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2016-03-18 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Young. [ she nods. ] Not yet a woman, at least.

[ and so it's clear sansa considers herself a woman. ]
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[personal profile] bryces_pup 2016-03-19 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
I am sorry, Sansa. I have never had a little sister - or a younger sibling at all - but I know that must be terrifying. My prayers that she is all right.

[So many questions, but maybe for another day. Riona understands subjects that are not easily spoken about.]
steeledskin: (# fire in place of a stone)

[personal profile] steeledskin 2016-03-20 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
She may come here. I thought Bran lost -- and here he is. Robb a-and Jon...it is a blessing to see them again. I've begun to hope I might see others should the Atroma permit it.
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[personal profile] bryces_pup 2016-03-21 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, there certainly does seem to be a pattern developing. Perhaps your entire family will show up here, in time. And if those of us trapped here can find our own way home, without Atroma...

[Wouldn't that be something? People who have nothing to go back to in their worlds can just... go elsewhere.]

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