three twins mingle post whoop

[nedstarksbastard]

Who: the crew of the Three Twins and whoever might decide to visit them!
Broadcast: N/A
Action: SS Three Twins
When: Just after this latest Shuffle.

[good news, folks: your engineer's not floating anymore!]

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[nedstarksbastard]

Arya. Arya. [He can't burden her with what he knows of her fate right now, no, but his brow furrows as he pulls away again and looks her in the eyes.] It wasn't your fault, you couldn't have saved him. [Empty words, but he believes them all the same. This is Arya, and he doesn't want her to blame herself for something out of her hands.

And--he supposes he can give her some bit of good news. He lets out a breath.]

Joffrey's dead. He's been dead for some time now, for me and Sansa. [Yeah. Assure your younger sister that one of the people she wants dead is already dead. A plus, Snow.] It's--hard to explain, and you'll want to sit down for it, but for me, it's been more than a year or so since Father died.

[aliased]

A year--[ her brow furrows at the news, whatever relief she'd gotten from hearing Joffrey was dead dissipating (what is their life). ] It just happened. I just saw it. I could still hear the crowd cheering before.... before I woke up here. [ she must have fainted, which didn't seem like her. or maybe yoren knocked her out to keep from crying out.

bran had said something similar to her but she hadn't believed him.]

[nedstarksbastard]

[He nods, looks down for a moment. It's hard to believe it's been only been more than a year or so, not counting the months he's spent on this ship. It's hard to look back and not see a lifetime between the boy he used to be and who he is now.

He looks up, takes her hands in sword-calloused fingers. What is he supposed to say, he wonders, to his sister for whom their father's death is still fresh? What is he supposed to do?

He lets out a breath.]

It happens here sometimes--people remembering more than their friends or family do, when they come here. [A breath.] For all of us, you've been missing since Father died. And that, at the most, has been a long time ago. [And last he heard she had been married to Ramsay fucking Snow, but he's just not going to mention that.

He breathes out, looks down at her hands.]

I'm sorry you had to see that, Arya. [Soft, sad, and full of regret. Sometimes he wishes they could just--go back.]