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[So we've been stuck on the poison moon for a couple months now, so a lot of people probably want to get away from that.

Unfortunately, the only place you really can get away from it besides your own ship is the Iskaulit. So, here's a June Iskaulit mingle!]

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Not everyone knows me, and I haven't always been on my best behavior. Some things affect me in different ways than they would affect you, and one time it meant that my personality was changed for the worse.

Mmm. [even if he doesn't want to try sometimes]

It loses some of its 'fun' value when you're on the run from a horde of zombies, I think. [But she sounds amused anyway.]

[She sees that reaction.] You know him? Tyki Mikk?

Well, now you do. Think of it as being paid for being forced to stick around. It's like a job.

Well, I'm hardly going to say he's not exceptional. [Especially with that build up!] That's nice you two are getting along so well. [And maybe puts that particular disconnect to rest, but there was still the other one.]

Tyrion was telling me about his nephew.

Excuse me?

[Smelled??? He must've misheard that, right?]

I'm- I don't think you have to worry about that here.

[He grins briefly.] I suppose the mood might strike on occasion.

But most aren't terribly observant, Kirito. You know this.

Only of one? he has two - and a niece. King Joffrey, Prince Tommen,

[ king tommen, according to what she heard and her husband to be besides. ]

and princess Myrcella.

[ but she knows who she is speaking of. people so rarely speak of joffrey's siblings, both kinder, far less cruel. ]

But that was not your fault.

[ her smile turns softer, more sympathetic. ]

do you miss your - planet? your flower?

[She just giggles a little.]

Something a little similar to that Vlad fellow.

Hm... Well, maybe. Let's test!

[She very dramatically steps forward.

Absolutely nothing happens, and she seems almost disappointed to be inside.]

The one I'm from originally? I do, quite a bit. But it's gone, and I love my new planet a lot.

I am sorry.

[ she reaches for her hand and presses her own to it ]

for your flower. I imagine it must have been lovely.

He's mentioned all of them. He speaks highly of Tommen and Myrcella. But the one I meant was the cowardly, vile abuser. His words.

[She'll wait to see what Margaery does with that.]

Some say he is. Some say he is cruel. Especially in these parts.

[ she nods. she will not deny that. She didn't expect Tyrion to say anything less, especially when he never hid his mislike of Joffrey even in King's Landing. ]

[ takes her hand and squeezes it lightly ]

It was, though maybe less so at the end. It wasn't healthy. I miss my parents though. My mother was beautiful.

Like the moon wasn't healthy?

[ she dares hope its people will find a kinder fate. ]

Like you.

[ a little smile ]

Did you have brothers and sisters, too?

You don't think he is? [Instead of giving her time to answer she looks at the girl.] I'm not from your world. I have no stake in it. But if you're afraid of him, you don't have to be. [After all he must die soon after when she comes from in her world. And here? There are always airlocks.]

Joffrey is the king of the Seven Kingdoms and he is to be my husband. That is what matters, it is agreed, I will honor the promise my father has made. I am not afraid of him.

[ here, she will be. at westeros, not very much ]

Yes, like the moon, but much more... volatile.

[ she shakes her head ]

Just me. My cousin was saved as well, but we weren't raised together on Earth.

I have an adopted sister, though. She's wonderful, and a little older than me. She looked out for me.

Like a sister by birth would have done.

[ she nods. ]

Like my brothers would do for me were they here. Loras is especially protective, he used to frown at the young men who would speak to me when I was younger.

Didn't want any untoward advances on his sister? Some things are consistent, at least.

You're not? [She believes her. It's more that she wonders why she's not. Even if this is a private sort of question.]

I am to be a Queen. If I show fear, I will be nothing more than that, a cowering girl standing next to a throne. I am a woman, a lady of Highgarden, we are not taught fear, we are taught to be clever and care for those we love. Our family and the people, those of the Kingdoms. Fear is a dangerous feeling where I come from, once people see it, they never forget.

[ a moment later she smiles ]

My house is noble and old and it was our men who saved the capital from the attacks brought upon it, it is our food that feeds that people and our gold that reaches the king. My brother is the finest knight in the Seven Kingdoms and he is stationed by my chambers day and night and the king, however cruel he is said to be,

[ she is very careful not to agree with it, not yet ]

is but a man. they are all men, fishermen, kings, bakers, lords. Will he lift a hand to a queen from the second richest house in the kingdoms? a house that supplies him gold and men and food for the people?

[ a moment passes and she adds ]

and will he still be cruel to those people when it upsets his queen so? would he keep her from her little womenly charities? from feeding orphans and giving alms? it is a matter of cleverness not a matter of fear.

He certainly did not.

[ she chuckles ]

He was the ladies' favorite, however. He is gallant and so handsome. were he to come here, all the women of all the planets would wish for his favor.

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