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( Alayne fiddles with the bracelet around her wrist for a moment before speaking - she's hesitant about addressing the whole of a city that she cannot see. After all, it's dangerous to be Sansa Stark these days, now that she's a traitor accused of regicide. But amongst the midst of all these voices, it's unlikely that hers will be recognized ( or so she thinks, as she does not know details of the network yet ). She is Alayne now, not Sansa. They will not know her. Lies and arbor gold, Alayne thinks. No one takes notice of a bastard girl. )

Gods of Asgard, I wanted to thank you for choosing me for such an important task. This is an honour that I did not expect. But I must think of my lord father - he worries so, and I wouldn't want him to fret. I'm only a young girl - surely someone more gallant should be chosen for a deed like this.

If it please you, I would ask that you send me back to him.

( but alayne doesn't expect much: no one gets what they want without a price. all she can do is ask. )

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Perhaps once the battle is over, you'll be sent home like you request. As it stands, I've only seen people leave against their will.

I have not heard tell of any battle within these borders. Only that my duty was here, to bring colour to this land.

( duty, they said. but alayne has other duties. to her father, whom she owes a debt to. the plight of a strange land is pressing, but there are other things that take more importance. )

Is there a war being waged in Asgard?

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They probably won't answer. If they do they won't send you home.

[His tone is vaguely impatient--the sound of someone who's heard this sort of thing before. It's also resigned--the sound of someone who's pretty much given up on getting back any time soon.]

( it sounds like a chastisement, alayne thinks. she is used to the gods not answering her - how long had sansa waited, in king's landing? how many times had she prayed? perhaps petyr's machinations of a rescue could be the gods taking mercy on her. she almost does not expect them to answer, nor to take any notice of her. but that small, glimmering hope is still there as long as they exist at all. )

I saw no harm in making a request, ser.

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You don't believe to be worthy a task like this?

There are others more worthy, are there not?

( it is not humility, no. nor is it self-deprecation. people have expectations of what they wish to hear is all. she had learned a long time ago that it was easier to speak within those boundaries than anything else. )

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I wish it was that easy. I really do.

[ there's always a way out, she thinks. it's just a matter of finding it and sometimes it's a more difficult task than one would expect. ]

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( few things are, she thinks, but only nods until she realizes that the gesture can't be seen. the idea of speaking to someone she cannot see is strange and daunting. )

Yes. If only.

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I don't think they like to talk to us.

There's a chance they may listen, even if they don't speak.

( only a chance, she thinks. alayne does not have high hopes for this endeavour. but it's one she takes all the time. )

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Don't think gallant is really what these guys're going for.

What do you think they need? They said it was a great honor to be chosen.

( but she has no doubt that those are only pretty words said to motivate them. alayne has no loyalty to asgard, only to her father, and she knows when she's being manipulated now. these are not deft schemes, but they seem to be effective amongst the citizens nonetheless. )

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[ i am only a young girl. how many times had dany said that, both aloud and in her own mind? too many. she found a sort of courage in the girl for admitting as such. the girl's manner of speech marks her as perhaps a familiar face in a sea of strange customs and stranger words.

her voice is gentle: ]

My lady, you are brave to speak up at all. I am certain many have asked but I am told these 'gods' do not listen.

Though..I do not believe we will be kept here forever.

[ though dany knows little of the place yet, she's determined to find a way out. there's no other choice but to do so, and if possible, to help return those that longed for home. ]

( a young girl, but not a child. alayne has to make that distinction time and time again. children believe in certain things - in love, in knights, in happy endings. she has no such ideas in her mind. is it brave, truly, to speak up, as this woman implies? perhaps. but sansa would have wavered more than this. )

I'm told there's a war, and that's why we were brought here. But...surely there must have been some mistake.

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It doesn't.

[Sorry chica, but them's the breaks. No use in trying to sugar-coat it.]

( it's such a brusque statement that alayne finds it discourteous, but she doesn't mention it. her lips tighten together where he can't see, the slight annoyance easily passed away. )

Do you speak for them, ser? Or are you cautioning me?

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You are sweet, my Lady but the Gods ignore sweet pleadings as they do demands, I fear.

[ children and tender girls, such are the people that the Gods bring here and Morgana has to wonder what do they expect of them. Why bring such sweet souls into a city of war? They are not warriors, there is benefit of it. ]

Are you well?

I suppose...it's their place as gods to ignore or deny me as they please.

( but there is an utterly familiar feeling about this: about being in a new land and feeling like she knows none of the rules. of feeling trapped, like one of king joffrey's helpless pawns. alayne is a pawn in a different way now, and she likes to pretend that she isn't. )

As well as can be, and it is kind of you to ask, my lady.

( she looks like someone of noble birth, from the image on her screen. she speaks like one, as well. alayne says it only to be safe. it's important to remember the proper courtesies, but hard to address people as befitting their station in a new land. )

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It is the most strange thing that could happen, don't you think?

[ Here, too, is a young girl who was thrown into Asgard. ] But you're safe, at least. Perhaps you father knows that, and if not then you should do all you can to protect yourself, so that maybe you can return to him one day.

[ She smiles softly.] Everything will be okay.

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( it's a kind smile, alayne supposes. from a girl around myrcella's age, if she were to guess. she thinks that it's genuinely meant - from what she's seen of children, it seems like they are too young to apply fakeries. she believes the intent behind them, but not the words themselves. everything will be okay. but alayne smiles, nonetheless. )

You are very kind, to offer such words of comfort to a stranger.

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[ her words, her voice. he thought he'd forgotten it ⎯

but he is so sure. her words, her words speak so much - they tell him that she is of westeros. her words spark a flicker of hope but he cannot be sure. the device hides her face. please - by the seven - let it be her. the last they'd interacted it was through cersei's words, and he's only had small assurances that she was alive. in the back of his mind he was never expecting to see her again.

his voice is calm despite the fact his hands are shaking ]

Sansa.

( robb.

it is his face that she sees on her screen, his voice projected through the bracelet, and alayne's heart begins to beat so fast. there's a catch in her throat, a sign that signals the beginning of tears, but she swallows them back for the time being. robb is here. robb, whom she believed dead all this time. tyrion had spared her the details of his death, and that had been his kindness to her. she knew that the freys had betrayed him at a wedding, that they had broken guest right, and she had hated them all for it. she had hated them so much that sansa had thought it would consume her heart in equal parts grief and anger. sansa had wept for days.

but alayne stone has no brothers, whether they be kings or bastards, and she does not know how to reconcile the two. especially not when he calls her by her old name.

you're supposed to be dead, she thinks. you died and then you lost the war and left us all behind. but alayne had not seen the body herself, she had only the words of lannisters to provide her truth. could they have lied to her? why would they have done that? what advantage did it serve them to lie about the death of their adversary?

the bracelet slips from her fingers and clatters to the floor loudly as a shaking alayne tries to gather up enough composure to speak. when she does, it's so quiet and so drawn that robb might not even hear. )

Please --

( she takes a deep breath. )

I...I beg you, not to call me by that name.

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and now starkpain JULI YOU'RE RED WEDDING-ing my HEART

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NO THIS IS YOUR FAULT JULYA

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I don't think that can be requested. People come and go all the time, so you might find yourself spirited away when it's less expected.

I've heard similar tales from others. I suppose most would rather be at home, in their proper places. Even if we are honoured guests here.

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[That voice. She'd know it anywhere. A wave of relief washes through Arya that she's alive, immediately followed by a deep anger. The last time she'd seen Sansa, it had been at their father's execution, at the side of her beloved Joffrey. But now she's saying that her lord father is alive, and worries about her? Arya has a bad feeling about this.]

Sansa?

( nobody had mentioned arya's fate to her. her mother, her father and robb - even bran and rickon were dead. sansa had assumed that arya must be dead as well. that she was the last wolf left alive, the last of her house back when it was still her own. until the lannisters replaced her cloak with a crimson one and made her into one of them. until petyr made her into someone else altogether, without a sigil of her own.

for a moment, she doesn't know what to say. she falters, and the facade that alayne had worked so hard to keep up was beginning to crack. how many times had she repeated her name to herself? how many times had she called lord baelish father? these lies were practiced so many times that she almost believed them to be true.

almost. )

I am Alayne.

( but there is doubt in her voice, creeping up on her. sansa would have given anything to see her family one last time, and that longing has arisen in alayne, more powerful than any of the other conflicting messages in her mind. )

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I don't think you have much of a choice but you probably shouldn't think so low of yourself either.

I only meant that I understand where my place is; beside my father, in his hall. I can do much more good there.

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This task is not as noble as you may think, my dear. But I'm afraid the chances of you going home are slim.

I was told that it was an honorable task. ( she knows it isn't, and she was never fooled for even a second, but it's always easier to play the innocent. the naive girl. and some of it stems from a fear of being in a new place that alayne dutifully shoves away. ) Yet why do you believe otherwise?

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It's probably better to settle down and see if anyone you know is here. The gods won't send you back home unless they want to.

If your father isn't in the city already, he won't notice that you're gone either. There won't be time to.

( he will notice, she thinks. because he needs me. perhaps not as much as she relied on him, but petyr baelish had plans for her, plans that would ultimately benefit him as well. surely he would notice, and lord robert as well. but it's rude to contradict people. )

My apologies, I...I don't understand your meaning.

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Eheheheheheheh good luck making them honor that. They don't give a damn what you think, princethh.

[It's not exactly mocking and it's not exactly bitter and it's not exactly kind or unsympathetic either but whoops that is definitely an alien.]

( are those-- horns? cue alayne quietly freaking out about it, trying to decide whether to cut the feed out of fear or -- but that would be discourteous. it would be downright rude.

but he scares the crap out of her. sorry sollux, they don't have homestucks in westeros :(. )

I... ( she hesitates, tries to keep her voice from wavering. sansa would have been cowed, perhaps. alayne is different, now. ) you...you have me mistaken, ser. I'm no princess.

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