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Who: Jeyne
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: 20th

[She should feel used to being told nothing. Her mother had prepared her for a life without answers and a lack of control in her future. It shouldn't surprise her to be taken away from her entourage and brought to a world not of her choosing, but there is nothing that could prepare her for this place. How did any of this happen? How did she go from being surrounded by an armed escort to being utterly alone in a foreign environment.

Stranger still, there was sense of understanding about where she found herself. This was space and she was on a ship among the stars. It would be simpler if this was a kidnapping, but it was something more than that, she knew that deep in her gut.

Disconcertingly, there was no one about, no one that she could question. Why would anyone want to watch her and what exactly were ratings? Why did she need to participate in whatever entertainment they had planned? More importantly, how did she know things that she never knew before?

Searching did little good. There was no one in authority and the place seemed to be silent, save for the music and screens playing in the background. There was at least one other option, if it could manage to bear fruit.

Fumbling with the device, Jeyne managed to turn it on, twisting it around until she was certain that she appeared front and center, clear for everyone to see.]

I can't seem to find anyone to tell me why I'm here. I keep hearing from the strange screens that I'm in some sort of game or performance, but that doesn't make sense. Why were we chosen and how did they bring us here?

My name is Jeyne. Can someone please help me?

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[Ah, another poor trapped soul. It's always a bit difficult to watch newcomers arrive and be so confused.

Riona prepares her usual spiel, but stops when the newcomer's name sinks in.

What were the chances she's the same Jeyne that she's heard of?]

Hello, Lady Jeyne. [She offers a comforting smile.] Unfortunately, no one here has any good answers. You've been brought here by Atroma, and whatever their reasons are for bringing certain people here are known only to them. And how they do so is just as mysterious. It's something we'd all like to know.

[Sadly, those are the only answers she's got.]

If you do not mind my asking, are you by chance from a place called Westeros?

[It's disappointing to know that there will be no clear answers, but strangely comforting that everyone is just as in the dark as she is. Usually she is the one out of the loop.

She smiles at the young woman, considering her beautiful features and warm countenance. If she was to meet someone over this device, at least it was someone that seemed friendly and kind.]

Atroma? I have heard the name, but I can't quite figure out if they are men or something else. So we are to participate in their performance, but without any direction to guide us? That seems rather poorly planned.

[Surprise flashes across her features, soon replaced by relief.]

Yes! I lived in the Westerlands, I'm from the Crag. You know of Westeros? Are you from there?

[She didn't seem to have an accent that Jeyne recognized.]

I cannot say whether or not it is a man or many. But whatever he or she or they are, they do not act alone.

[Diamond's shrill voice comes to mind. Atroma has cronies, if nothing else.]

Do not think of it so much of a performance. There are no lines or script here. They throw us together and see what happens. When you have so many disparate personalities here, things do tend to happen.

[Some good, some bad. And a few dangerous.

When she confirms she's from Westeros, Riona smiles. It has to be her then, right?]

No, I am not, but there are a number of people from there, including a young man named Robb Stark. You wouldn't by chance know him, would you?

[Everything else seems to fall away. If she's been brought here to react to certain situations and people, they have managed to strike a raw nerve for her. She didn't think at first that this place could be cruel, not compared to those she has known (her mother among them), but this...

...this was picking at an open wound.

First they mended her gown on her arrival, the gown she had torn purposefully in mourning, now the memory of her husband is paraded in front of her.

She doesn't hide her tears or the evident pain on her face. If this is what these Atroma men have wanted, they struck well and true.]

Robb is dead. Please, don't tease me with his memory.

[Shit. She honestly hoped Jeyne hadn't known about what would happen to Robb. Unfortunately, she guessed wrong.]

Lady Jeyne, I did not bring him up to hurt you. I did so because he is here, and he is alive.

[Which will undoubtedly raise confusion, so she continues.]

Atroma has the capability of bringing people from different worlds. It - or they - can also bring people from different points in time. Robb was brought here from before his death. Some of his siblings are here, too, and they had already known of what will happen to him.

[Oh gods, please don't let this be lie.]

If you jape with my, my lady... [What could she say that would be an adequate warning? She was incapable of actually striking a person. She hadn't been able to strike her mother when she stole the crown Robb had given her. She hadn't attacked the Kingslayer on sight.

So what could she do to anyone abusing Robb's memory with such a lie?

If it was a lie. Gods, but what if it was true?]

Where is he? If he is here, then I want to see him.

[She felt breathless at the idea. How many nights had passed since he left that she didn't imagine him walking through the doors of Riverrun? She heard his voice in the night, sometimes certain he was right beside her, only to wake and there be nothing. She couldn't suffer that pain again, not here as well.]

How do you know Robb? Who are you?

You have my word, as a wife myself. I would not lie about something like this.

[Jeyne's request makes her pause. Damn, of all the times for Robb to be in one of those comas! Then again, just because he was asleep, didn't mean Jeyne couldn't see him...]

You will not be able to see him in person until you are shuffled. Newcomers remain on the Marsiva - the ship you're on - until Atroma sends you to one of the other ships. We have no means of boarding the Marsiva from the outside. It shouldn't be for more than a few days until you're assigned to one of the ships. That's how I met Robb; we were put on the same ship.

Robb is... asleep right now. And I doubt I'll be able to wake him. [As much as she wishes she could] But I can show you him through this device, like how you're seeing me now. Would that be all right?

[She knows that she has always been naive and too trusting, it kept her from suspecting the disaster that she and Robb were heading towards. But Riona's word is enough to spark Jeyne's hope to life. She has never met this woman before nor has any reason to believe her, but need outweighed reason.]

Gods, but these Atroma men are cruel. Robb is on a ship, but I can't physically go to him until they deign to move me?

[Her greatest wish was given to her, but it was just out of reach.]

Asleep? Why can't he wake? [Her heart seized in her chest.] Is he ill? Does he have a fever? [Seven Hells! Why was she not able to be with him?!]

Please, show me. Let me see him.

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Oh yes. This is rather typical of them. You'll come to hate the bastards quickly enough. [Though Riona is half-tempted to point out that those same bastards at least afforded Jeyne a chance to see Robb again, but keeps that to herself for now.]

He's fallen into a coma. [Riona gets up and begins to move towards Robb's room.] It happens from time to time to people here. For some strange reason, Atroma will send someone into a sleep for days or weeks. We really don't know why. It happened to me a few months ago, and now it seems it's Robb's turn.

[She nudges his door open, calling out just in case he did wake up and wasn't decent. Her heart sinks when she hears nothing.]

Do not worry. He'll be all right. I know his sister looks after him, as do others on the ship. I've checked in on him a few times myself.

[With a flick of her wrist, the lights turn on. She aims the camera at Robb's sleeping form. He's out cold, even as Riona calls to him. She swears under her breath. But at least Jeyne could see him. And Riona gently moves his blanket back, so his wife could see his chest rise and fall: a clear sign of life.]

It will be soon that they will "shuffle" us? What ship are you both on? Is there anyway that I can be there too? Or do they choose this randomly?

[She is willing to beg on her knees, if need be. She hasn't seen any signs of these Atroma, but someone was watching. Why else were they brought here, if not for the amusement of others? She didn't have so much pride that she wouldn't tearfully beseech these higher powers to let her be with her husband.

They somehow brought them together again, they couldn't keep them apart permanently.]

When did he fall into this coma? You weren't injured or ill when you fell asleep? Are you certain?

[She stares in amazement and wonder as he appears on the screen. He looked so real, just as he was when he left for Riverrun. The sight of his sleeping form brought a rush of memories, both painful and bittersweet. She could remember the warmth of his body and the feel of his arms around her, their nights filled with passion and love as they shut away the rest of the world, finding the bit of sweetness that still existed in the world.

He needed her now, as much as he had when his brothers died. Yet she couldn't look after him or be at his side. It hurt, a worse torture than anything she could imagine before.]

Thank you. [For the first time since his death, her tears could be mixed with a smile.] Gods...I can't believe it. I stayed true to him. It didn't matter that he...died. I love him.

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