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[ From all haggard appearance, he's quite hungover. Then again, so's half the city. Jaime slouches, unamused, against the back wall of the stables. Petals tangle in his rumpled hair, and one particularly loud orchid looks to have been actually knotted into place. ]
When we've all recovered, I've two questions. Three, if you feel generous.
Well, aren't you a perfect busybody! [ The orchid snaps, as Jaime casts his eyes skyward, imploring. ] Back in my day, rude little weeds like you didn't just trample all over, making everything their business! Back in my day --
[ Without warning, his hand leaps up to snatch the flower, crumpling around it tight. It wiggles and thrashes in his palm, but Jaime only grips tighter, until at last the struggling quiets. With a wary motion, he slowly lets go. The orchid hangs limp. ]
-- First. Many of us seem to have received a gift. If you will speak of it, I would ask what you received.
My second question is the graver. In your homes, what laws and systems govern men? What actions are crimes, and what measures taken against the criminal?
They ought to call you a criminal! [ Squeaks the orchid, faint and indignant. ] Ruffian! Knave!
Last, will someone help me cut this bloody thing out?
When we've all recovered, I've two questions. Three, if you feel generous.
Well, aren't you a perfect busybody! [ The orchid snaps, as Jaime casts his eyes skyward, imploring. ] Back in my day, rude little weeds like you didn't just trample all over, making everything their business! Back in my day --
[ Without warning, his hand leaps up to snatch the flower, crumpling around it tight. It wiggles and thrashes in his palm, but Jaime only grips tighter, until at last the struggling quiets. With a wary motion, he slowly lets go. The orchid hangs limp. ]
-- First. Many of us seem to have received a gift. If you will speak of it, I would ask what you received.
My second question is the graver. In your homes, what laws and systems govern men? What actions are crimes, and what measures taken against the criminal?
They ought to call you a criminal! [ Squeaks the orchid, faint and indignant. ] Ruffian! Knave!
Last, will someone help me cut this bloody thing out?
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And law and crime is whatever people want them to be. They decided it by themselves, based on what they believe to be "good and evil" or "right and wrong", even if their morality is nothing but fake. They often use God to justify themselves, too. Punishments are like this too; they can be death, torture, incarceration, monetary or a simple slap on the wrist.
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Your world is one of anarchy, then? No greater body to decide these things?
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The assistance would be appreciated. I seem to have misplaced my knife.
[ And doesn't she just sound far too awake to have met the same state of affairs. ]
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I'm pretty sure someone's sense of humor needs some fixing. I got an entire box of these things. [And what's worse is that they're all copies of just one issue.] You want one? Can't guarantee quality entertainment, but at least you'd get a laugh out of it.
[He puts the comic down, then continues, in a more serious tone:]
There's something called democracy, in my world. Means that it's the public that gets the say in who gets to sit in the White House, and if that guy's shit, they get to kick him out too. [Which is an oversimplification of American politics, but come on, he's not really an expert in that.] For the most part it's a free world, even if democracy's not in place in some countries, but right now? There's a war on 'cause somebody in power decided he wanted more of it.
[Sound familiar? He sighs.]
Anyway, that's not what you're asking about, so--back home, it depends. Stuff like getting drunk and disturbing the peace gets you a night in jail, maybe two, and bigger things get either longer stays or, depending on just how bad or how public it was, an electric chair. Or worse.
[Moving on, he blinks at the flower in Jaime's hand.]
...at least you didn't find one in your sandwich.
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Jaime slowly leans back, shaking his head. It's true, he does laugh -- though it's a startled, dismissive thing. There's just too much to take in at once. ]
An entire box of illustrations? I suppose it might be worse, the ink looks very fine.
[ His expression sobers to mull the rest over. The White House, well, there have been stranger names for castles. An electric chair makes a deal less sense. ]
Bite down on one, did you? It sounds not unlike our own system, this 'democracy' aside. Does everyone truly choose the king? It sounds a mess of chaos -- how do they decide, if they are to be rid of him?
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[And boy is she excited about it!]
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[ A great deal of excitement over a cup -- he may not understand it, but from a child, it's almost endearing. ]
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[ I never meant for it. Why did he say that (why does she bother to remember it)? ]
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[ Now, there's a name he never cared to see here again. They've been doing an admirable job of avoiding each other -- a shame that state of affairs cannot continue, uninterrupted. ]
Not freely, but I would have trade of it. One telling for another.
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Got a picture of Mom and Dad.
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[ Jaime doesn't think much of pictures, rare and stiff as they are. They're meant for crests, landscapes, designs -- not people, where the style grows awkward, belaboured, every inch twisted as the knees of a man at prayer. A portrait will never match for memory. ]
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I'd been meaning to speak with you... Jaime, wasn't it?
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[ Horns. It must be something near to Nepeta, to the rest he's watched at distance over the network. Whatever the origin of its deformity, knowledge of him here surely bodes ill. He switches the feed to private. ]
Aye. Ser Jaime Lannister. What of it?
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[ Sure, he's had a spat with a couple of them but he wouldn't do that. ]
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Jaime, for his part, casts his bracelet and incredulous look. ]
It is a flower, take hold of your own senses.
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[Ignoring your questions, Jamie.]
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Exasperation slipis plain from his voice. It's not that Jaime dislikes children -- really, there are some of whom he's passing fond. But as a species they bear no special consideration. ]
A flower, girl, a plant. Seven hells, have you never clutched a bouquet?
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I got my stuffed dragon from home, or atleast one that looks very much like it. [It was a gift from Tommy, and as much as she's certain whoever sent it meant well-it just reminds her of how much she misses the others.]
It's rude, but tleast they're not sucking out your energy or shooting poisonous dust at you. [Why yes, she doesn't know from experience-and since her power doesn't work here, she doesn't see the point in hiding it.]
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[ it's all suspicion and accusations, because regardless of night time trysts he's still the man who attacked her father and he's still the lannister, regardless of cloak colours.
nymeria's around. somewhere. but she's keeping that information to herself for now. ]
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A rotten hand upon a string.
[ Jaime speaks, blunt. The flower gives a fluttery, dizzied cry of disgust, draping back upon itself in woe. ]
And you?
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Ah, well I received a jewellery box.
I take it that you did not care for what the flower had to say to you?
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Would that I might care less; its volume is stubborn insistence.
[ He cracks a small smile at that. ]
The box alone?
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Why in the seven hells would I want it to grow.
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[Which he doesn't look particularly excited by, but, really, there's only so much one can do with that.]
I'd forgotten I'd had them, to tell ye the truth. And Scotland was a monarchy, back in my day. I suspect ye might be familiar with those already.
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Lodestones? And string. Do they carry any significance, or merely a bit of home?
Aye, Westeros is a kingdom -- or more, at whim of its seven domains. Does Scotland keep lords, as well?
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[ He would hardly put it past the Kingslayer, particularly after their conversation the other evening, when madness had taken its grip on him and Renly. ]
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Leave them alone! If you even as so much as lay a hand on any of them, you'll be expecting a visit from me.
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[ He means to sound merely bored, but the ache in his skull, the yammering of the orchid -- it cants the words nasty. ]
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[AJ doesn't like to see others getting hurt, even if it's just a flower. She frowns for a moment before giving a small, but friendly smile.]
I got a bushel of apples from tha farm I ran back home. As fer who's in charge where I'm from that would be tha Princesses Celestia, Luna, Cadence, and Twilight Sparkle.
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[ What those reasons are, he doesn't bother to elabourate.
Apples. Alright, he doesn't have to understand how she's a horse to understood that she's still a horse. Honour chews his way through any bit of fruit he can find; old, mealy apples the best of all.
And the royalty, well, nothing to bat an eye at there. But Twilight Sparkle -- ?
Gods, he should have expected. ]
...These are also horses?
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A fine blade, your grace. You've suitable partners for practice?
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