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[passingthrough]

Who: Everyone
Broadcast: Open
Action: Tourist, or find her later on the Twin Roses or Iskaulit
When: March 2

[Kitty's morning on the Tourist did not go as planned. It's another hour or so before she makes this announcement. She doesn't even know what happened to the minutes in between. But she's all business when she looks into the communicator. No hiding behind text.]

Winn Schott is in a coma. [Blunt. Direct. Maybe she should have called a few people individually first like Kara, but she wasn't going to make it through this if she did that.] He always has projects going, so they're going to be late. If something is important let me know and I'll see if it's something I can work on in his place.

I already fed his slug today, but someone on the Tourist should take care of that until lazy wakes up. [The mild insult to cover feelings is so classic Kitty, circa home it may not even fit with what people of the fleet know of her. That Kitty had walls around her walls, but those are gone now.]

He's always checking on ship systems on the Twin Roses since we managed to merge and still not get an engineer out of the deal, so if anyone else can help us out with that in the meantime let me know. I'll also be working on the new dance studio later today if anyone wants to help. [Because this mission is almost complete and she needs another one so she can hold it together. Can't fall apart if she's sanding down floors.]

Comments

[widow_of_the_crag]

[Jeyne covers her face for a moment, trying not to laugh.]

It is. Very shocking.

What sort of dancing? I doubt it is similar to my world.

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[She manages a soft smile for a moment even under the circumstances of Winn's coma.] Oh, all sorts or at least that's what we'll do here. But I'm thinking mostly of ballet. I don't know that anyone else will actually want to learn it, but it's what I trained most in when I was younger.

[widow_of_the_crag]

It sounds beautiful. [The name did at least. She had never heard of the dance, but she had come to expect that. She wanted to learn when the time came. She hadn't danced in so long.] What would you like me to do to help?

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It is. Or it can be. I've seen it done badly too. It's hard on the feet, but it's powerful and graceful.

[Nodding.] Please. Want to help paint?

[widow_of_the_crag]

I should like to see it someday. Perhaps to learn a little as well?

[Anything new, she wanted to try it.]

Of course.

[She glanced around for the supplies.]

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Well, teaching is the goal, so I would be up for that if you want to take a class. It might be a small class. Possibly a private lesson.

[widow_of_the_crag]

That might be best. I should hate my lack of grace to be seen.

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Everyone stumbles when they start. Do you dance at home?

[widow_of_the_crag]

I did, but not for a long while.

[Not even at her wedding.]

I was taught as a girl.

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Is that common there? Dance lessons as children? [She knows a lot about that world and yet she's still not always sure what to make of it.]

[widow_of_the_crag]

It is if you wish to make a good marriage.

My mother intended for me to marry well and into a great house, so I was instructed how to be a proper lady. It included dancing.

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What other skills are proper ladies expected to learn? [Nice and distracting. And she's curious. Both their worlds could be so harsh, but Jeyne's has so much more social structure left to it. Maybe it's the similarity in seeing the rise and fall of civilizations.]

[widow_of_the_crag]

We are instructed to learn to run a household, embroidery, a bit of music. My mother was insistent on my learning nursing, as well as herbs. Though that is uncommon for ladies of breeding.

My mother wanted me to be appealing for a lord, so I was educated as other ladies of higher standing were.

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I think I had lived in your world someone would have had a very hard time keeping me still enough for embroidery. I guess I can't really imagine what I'd be if I'd lived in a world so different. Although I have seen another version of it. [Another version of herself back in the prison.]

Did you like any of it?

[widow_of_the_crag]

There were other things to do beyond embroidery. My brother took me often to play in the sea and we explored the hills around our castle. It was beautiful there once. [Before her mother spoiled it all.] I enjoyed learning to nurse and all I could about plants.

There is something beautiful in growing life with your own hands.

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I guess it makes sense we met in the garden. Do you still work in there? And you have a brother? Just one sibling?

[widow_of_the_crag]

I do. The herbs are close to the ones from my home. I have found combinations that can ease pains and aches, as well as lessen fevers.

[She is quiet a moment.]

No. I had three, one older and two younger. Raynald served Robb after our marriage. He was there when Robb... [Another pause.] He died trying to free Robb's wolf, hoping to save my husband.

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I'm sorry, Jeyne. [Bad enough to lose her husband, but her brother too.] I'm glad you get some part of a second chance here. [With Robb at least.]

[widow_of_the_crag]

It was my mother. She killed my brother, just as she killed my husband.

[She was beginning to break down and bit her lip fiercely in an effort to stop her tears.]

He's so afraid that I will leave. I try to tell him to enjoy these moments, but he's so certain.

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[Kitty steps closer to pull the other girl into a hug if she responds in a way that is willing. Loss is hard enough without betrayal in the mix. She knows that well enough.]

He thinks you'll choose to go or that you'll vanish?

[widow_of_the_crag]

That I will vanish.

[She is silent a moment.]

I think it troubles him to imagine what my future will be in our world. I will have to marry another.

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Well, that...

That's his thing to deal with. You should do what you want if you are separated again. [Hopefully above what you have to do, but she knows enough of that world to know better.] You can't claim someone for eternity when they have a life to live.

[She's told Winn before that she wants him to find happiness again if they are parted. The odds of her really being able to go with him seem so astronomically small. She very much wants to believe and work toward it, but the realist in her wants to be prepared too.]

[widow_of_the_crag]

What I want? [She didn't want anything but to leave her mother and be out of the reach of the Lannisters. What she really wanted was to see Robb walk back into her life. None of this seemed impossible.] You don't understand, Kitty. I am his for eternity. I want to be.

I don't want to be married off to the family that killed him.

[If she finds happiness in her later life, let it be in a life on her own. She had no interest in marrying anyone else. There was only Robb.]

There are a number of women in my world that remain widows. If I could simply leave and live somewhere quiet, that is what I want.

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[She's quiet for a moment thinking about how she might have claimed something similar with her husband, Piotr. And then she changed her mind after finding out about what he did to her in the moments after her abduction and it led to more loves and more losses and now to Winn and she wouldn't trade him even if it meant she didn't have to go through any of the heartbreak before him. But all that heartbreak reminds her how fragile everything is. How easy it would be to lose him too. Would she stay devoted and alone forever if she had to face a life without him?]

Is that what would happen? Someone else would choose who you'd be with and it would be that family? I like your world less and less all the time.

[widow_of_the_crag]

[When she speaks, it's in a whisper. There are tears in her eyes as she clutches her hand close to her heart.]

It's already been decided.

[She bit her lower lip, her hair falling over her face.]

My mother helped Tywin Lannister kill...in exchange for her children to marry Lannisters. It was all she wanted since I was born. I have to stay locked away for two years to show I am not with child. After that...