(second lemon cake) video ✧ locked to seelie

[steeledskin]

Dear fellows and members of the Seelie court -- [ the voice which addresses the locket is composed and clear and perfectly conscientious. but the girl whose image accompanies the voice looks a little less than all those things. her dark-dyed hair is fastened in an uncommonly simple braid...and if one looks very closely, she can be seen to have a haggard look about her. she's somewhere outside and all her caution is bent at hiding a panic she doesn't want to share with strangers. nor with those few genuinely waiting on her return. ]

I don't want to alarm any of you. Indeed, I speak to the very opposite of that effect. It's -- [ her gaze flickers 'off-screen' for a moment ] -- it's Alayne Stone. Those of you who are acquaintances [ not friends ] ought to know that I've found myself...left behind. I'm sorry. It should not have happened. But I suspect I won't make Caer Glaem again for some time. [ the fault of the matter is a little trickier than that, but she knows better than to play with implications. so after a steadying breath, she presses onwards. ] Or we won’t -- because I'm not alone. [ i have nymeria, she thinks but doesn’t dare to say. just like how sansa wants to speak directly to those who know her for who she really is -- but instead: ] I have a knight with me.

Don't I, Ser Gendry? [ and she twists her locket, letting it capture the surly blacksmith who stands a few paces away from her with an irritated expression. his armour is dented and blooded and the man sags with an obvious exhaustion. ser gendry is a man who looks and feels beaten, but it does not stop him from standing tall. he is a talisman of sorts: a warning, to any sansa fears might prey upon what would otherwise be a journey fraught with vulnerability. ser gendry is here; she is protected, albeit not happily so. he at last looks towards her and her locket and grumbles an unhappy agreement to her statement, which is accompanied by a nod. ]

A lady needn’t despair when she’s so well accompanied. Instead, my thoughts are with the returned; I pray the High Queen’s desired prize was taken without steep costs or losses. [ following this, there is no formal farewell. no official sign-off. her attention lingers, perhaps waiting for one or two responses in particular. ]

( ooc; sansa and gendry are now officially stranded and making their long way back to caer glaem -- and it’ll take them at least two months, though they’ll be reachable by locket at their respective ic inboxes. but for now, responses to this post will receive replies from one or the other or both!)

Comments

[aliased]

You fought The Kingslayer. [ its not a question nor is it accusatory, is it really just a stated fact. basically she's trying for his reaction.[

[bullhorned]

Survived him, more like. That damned man was quick. Likely I'd be dead if things went different. [It was not an admission that he relished making.]

[aliased]

You shouldn't have fought him! You're strong but you're too slow. And now you're stuck all the way over there. [ and she's stuck here :( without her direwolf and her best friend and sister..]

[bullhorned]

You think I went looking for him? Seven hells, but I ain't as stupid as you are. I was guarding the gate and he found me. [His mistake was in mentioning it to Sansa when he went to get some bandages and wait the rest of the skirmish out.]

[aliased]

He was looking for you? [ pause ] I'm not stupid.

[bullhorned]

He was looking for anyone to fight. And you are. You think I didn't hear you? Fight the Kingslayer? You've got to be a lackwit to think there's sense in that. You'd have a better chance fighting a bear than fighting him.

[aliased]

[ he gets such a look.] I'm not looking to fight him. [ and she knows better, that if Jory can't fight him and win, even with her size and his underestimating her to her advantage, jaime lannister would best her any day.]

[bullhorned]

Then you might tell your sister as much. She looks now like she might be making ready for your funeral. It's so good and we'll for you to upset her, but it's me who has to put up with her.

[aliased]

I'm not talking to her. She said she's going to have them lock me in my room.

[bullhorned]

Manacled to the bed as well, I hope. You'd just climb out the window otherwise.

[aliased]

Gendry! Shut up!

[bullhorned]

We've got enough trouble without you doing something stupid and coming out to track us.

[aliased]

I'm not coming after you. You're the one stupid enough to get stuck. [ okay she was going to try to come after you but jon snow will stop that.]

[bullhorned]

Good. See that you don't. I'll look after your sister for you, so you'll do your part looking after Lady Lucrezia for me.

[aliased]

She doesn't need me to look after her anymore.

[bullhorned]

[Well. Okay. That's true. He frowns.]

Bloody hell. Then find something to look after. You can watch the damned cat you gave me.

[aliased]

Just hurry up, will you?

[bullhorned]

As m'lady commands.

[aliased]

[ she's about to hang up but she decides to say--] I hid all the stuff you left behind. Just in case.

[bullhorned]

[He nearly protests, but perhaps this is better. Even though he wonders just what she might consider as his. Hm.]

Aye. Thank yo.

[aliased]

[ she shrugs and then-- well, she's not one for goodbyes so she just nods and hangs up on him.]