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[steeledskin]

Who: Sansa Stark + YOU
Broadcast: Text, fleetwide.
Action: Blue Fish
When: This morning.

Jon Snow and Bran Stark have left the Fleet. Condolences to those who may have befriended them while they were here; Gods-willing, we shall see them again.

[ sansa's message is short -- abrupt, and almost stripped of its emotion. she avoids broadcasting anything but simple text because she does not trust herself to maintain her mask, so to speak. as it is, she's cried too much. losing bran and jon feels like opening old wounds packed with grief. it makes her feel like a little girl again: weak, and mewling.

but she does add: ] I dread leaving, as they have left. Do others in the Fleet want to stay?

[ later, she can be found sitting on the floor of her personnel office. she has taken the furs from her bunk and has spread them across the ground, and she's allowed jon's direwolf pups free rein of the cozy and comfortable area. sansa's eyes are red-rimmed, and they betray every lie she tells when she insists she's as well as can be expected. but at least her spirits lift, a little, when she's playing tug-of-war with the pups.

they bring her a bittersweet joy. ]

Comments

[kingofbadlifechoices]

He did not beat you? {Robb’s eyes narrow.] Or any other harm? [Decent probably means ‘not behaving like Joffrey’ but he has no idea how decent Tyrion’s decency is.]

[Finally he laughs a very short, bitter laugh. Of course, Tywin.]

That surprises me not. Bloody Tywin Lannister being behind such a match. Apparently lord Bolton has not been kissing his arse enough. But then again he is more a fan of leeches than Lannister arse. [Bitter Robb is very bitter.]

I have heard that they accused him of Joffrey’s death. [It would not surprise him if Tyrion did it, Joffrey was a little piece of shit. But then again, Joffrey was that much of a shit that he would end up murdered sooner or later.] But it means it is not annulled yet.

That should happen first.

[steeledskin]

[ -- joffrey's death is the very last subject she wishes to broach. and to distract away from it, she decides to leverage the trauma in another portion of robb's conversation.

tight-throated and sad: ] Lord Tyrion was the one who stopped the beatings. He shamed the Kingsguard -- and then put his own men at my door to guard me. All well before our marriage was arranged.

[kingofbadlifechoices]

[But Robb is quite interested in Joffrey’s death. There is a certain sort of comfort that some man has decided to do the same to that bloody brat as they have done to him. A bitter part of him hopes that it has been a painful one.]

That is a good thing. I will speak to him about that.

[He cocks his head.]

But I do wish to know what happened there. With our great king...Joffrey. [A serious frown appears on his face again.] Don’t you wish to speak of it? Has it been gruesome?

[steeledskin]

Please. [ she implores. ] Surely, there is no need to speak to Lord Tyrion about things past. I would rather he forget me, brother, and forget our marriage too.

[ much like how she would forget joffrey. ]

[kingofbadlifechoices]

[Robb sighs at his sister’s response and decides not to push this any further.

They are in the here and now, not in the past.]

Very well, if that is what you wish. [He reaches out to hold her hands.] But I will teach you... I am not very good at politics. But I can tell you of the Northern houses, who to turn to. Who might answer a call to raise their banners for Winterfell.

[Not many...]

[steeledskin]

-- I would be deeply grateful if you did. [ tell her. this is information she needs to know. wants to know.

and she expresses that gratitude when she touches his arm. thoughtful, if timid. ] In time, brother, I'll tell you what I know. But I'm not prepared to talk about King's Landing. Not yet.

[kingofbadlifechoices]

It is all I can do. You do not need to be thankful for that. [It will be difficult. It does not help that Sansa is a girl either. It does not help that Robb has taken a lot of his men to the Twins. Some probably ended up inside the dungeons. Fathers would be faced with their sons in prison and vice versa. It would pressure them to not undertake anything rebellious.]

It is important that you free some men from the Twins. I...I have no idea who died and who got captured. I would try to turn to lord Manderly. [Not Karstark.] Bear Island, mayhaps. But it depends if Dacey and Maege survived. The North must be torn about what happened.

[He does not like to speak about his death and speculate about the effects of that. How loyal have my men been?]

I do not think they will allow house Frey to gain influence in the North. Lord Bolton would not care. But some houses are keen on traditions...and it is a grave sin to kill those protected by guestright. As I was. As my men were.

[He pauses, his face a little more pale than before.]

Talk of it when you are ready to do so. I will not pressure the matter.