[ katsa's silent for a long time because there's an extremely profound, an extremely uncomfortable feeling she has of empathy for gendry. empathy is not a familiar emotion to katsa, especially regarding something like this, and in her confusion, she's shocked to discover her eyes are burning and the unusual feeling tightening in her chest and lumping in her throat. ]


Maybe you knew she'd hang. Maybe you didn't. But you fought for her, anyway.

[ what is there to say? what would she want someone to say to her? ]

I don't think we're too different, Gendry. What you do, though—in the moments you have to fight—I think it says better about you than you say.