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Who: Sansa Stark, and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide; Anonymous
Action: Blue Fish, Iskaulit
When: Afternoon to late evening

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What should you do if someone you have never met -- never in your life -- hates you? What should you do if they are rude and horrible and ill-mannered and they won't tell you why?

I have done bad things. I know I have. But nothing to deserve this.

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[ when she isn't indulging in her very self-centered sort of misery, sansa is aboard the blue fish. she has finally decided to make a brave attempt to decorate the door to her room, and so far has only managed to paint the bone-white bark of what will eventually be a tree.

and then -- well after the hour when she ought to have been in bed -- sansa does something unanticipated. unexpected. she takes a shuttle all by herself! and she lets it pilot her back to the iskaulit, where she walks the halls with slow and careful purpose until she arrives at the garden. she makes a seat for herself far from the door, and she breathes in the smell of soil and plant-life. already, and despite its bewitching magicks, she misses the well-wooded planet so recently departed. ]

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Oh, so it's like that? Do you think they'd try to hurt you?

I couldn't say. [ a pause. ] I know not the content of their character. They could be a good person. Or they could be wretched.

[ Hmm ... this is a toughie. If it were her, it'd be easy not to care, since she can defend herself from most threats. But that might not be the case for this person.

Either way ... ]

Maybe if that person has other friends, you could try talking to them to see what their deal is? Maybe they were in a bad mood when they saw you, or you look like someone they know or something like that.

I would not be in the least bit surprised if he had none.

[ friends, that is.

#harsh. ]

[ Ino can't help but laugh a little at that. ]

Well, in that case, there might not be a cure for that kind of asshole.

There's not much you can do about his attitude, but if you feel like he might threaten you or hurt you, let me know, okay? Or someone that you might trust to protect you.

[ should she feel bad that so many people are expressing a kind of sympathetic aggression against the royal baseborn boy? maybe. yes. but she cannot lose face now. ]

I promise. Should I feel fear of that sort, I'll tell. I swear it.

Good!

In the meantime, all you can really do is be yourself and hope he comes around. It takes a special kind of persistence with guys like that.

'Like that' -- ?

Have you experience with them?

Sure, I know a lot of guys who act that way. Especially guys who are warriors and stuff like that. They don't know how to express their feelings like girls do, so they just act like jerks to make up for it. Or maybe they've been hurt or taken advantage of somehow, so they put up a wall so they won't seem vulnerable.

But, once they come around, they're usually pretty good people.

Usually?

Well, there's an exception to every rule, right?

Hopefully your mystery hater isn't one of them.

I pray he isn't. And yet, he did not look much vulnerable either.

Oh? Is he big and muscular or something?

Very.

Sometimes those are the biggest softies of all, though! One of the best friends I've ever made is a guy at least three times my size, who carried around a sword that was six feet long and two feet wide.

-- No sword is that big.

There's at least one. And he had enough muscle to use it.

He must have been big.

[ like the mountain. for that swords sounds even more formidable than what ice used to be. ]

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