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[survivra]

This wolf is enormous.

[ Katsa can be heard before she's seen, her locket instead in the face of a fully-grown direwolf that's shoving his nose in front of it in her hands. She pushes him out of the way, backs up so that she can be seen in scale with the direwolf: her blue and green eyes are overbright, red-rimmed as though she's been crying, but her voice when she speaks is loud and demanding. ]

What potions or tonics would turn dark hair blue?

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[steeledskin]

I know Ser Gendry. [ familiarity suffuses her voice. perhaps it ought not to -- but it cannot be helped; she approves of the knight. ] Although he and I both come from Westeros, we never met until here -- well: he is a good and gallant knight.

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[survivra]

Gallant... [ an interesting word to apply to gendry. she thinks about it. ] I've seen little knighting out of him. But while I know just as little of friends, he's been a good one, I think. Well. He is good at least, a better person than most.

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[steeledskin]

He -- [ serves is the wrong word. ser gendry has given her no sworn oaths. this still settles poorly with her. ] He stands in my guard. Now and then. A braver and truer knight than many others I've known.

A-and a good friend. Yes. You're correct. [ but she finds it difficult to say. ]

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[survivra]

[ katsa's not perceptive, but she is nosy, and hearing other people talk about people she knows is certainly within her realm of interest. she smiles. ]

You have a high opinion of him, Lady Sansa. I didn't know that he stands with anyone here. Well. It should be all right, if it's with you.

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[steeledskin]

He has more than proven himself. [ she suppresses the desire to praise him further. it isn't lady-like at all. especially not now that her praise is honest and well won instead of all the words she frittered away on him when they first knew each other. empty flattery said in the hopes of gaining some kind of loyalty. ]

But his heart rests bests with his anvil, I think.

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[survivra]

It's familiar, I suppose. Whatever makes sense in this place.

I imagine it's nice. [ she looks at her hands ] Having things—people—here that are familiar.

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[steeledskin]

Strange, really. To think of him like so: familiar. We never would have--

[ but perhaps it's unkind to say. uncouth. she swallows her words. ] We would not ever have met in Westeros. Not ever.

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[survivra]

Why not? What makes the circumstances so different?

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[steeledskin]

He isn't what he was, once. Back there. [ ... ] Nor am I.

[ these lands have made them meet somewhere in the awkward middle. ]

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[survivra]

That sounds like a good thing, then. Isn't it?

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[steeledskin]

I believe time will tell us the answer to that question. [ ... ] How is it that you know him?

[ light. curious. ]

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[survivra]

Well, at least there will be plenty of it.

I've known him from the beginning. He spoke to me on the day I arrived here, and I met him later that month when I visited the dwarven kingdom. We've met a few times since, and I trust him.

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[steeledskin]

-- You were in Troichean Beinn?

[ her curiousity takes on a slink. a slant. a crooked bent. ]

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[survivra]

Only for a week or so, months ago. A group of people were headed there, and I wanted to clear my head. Fascinating, but I'd go mad if I had to stay there very long with no fresh air or sky.

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[steeledskin]

And so I imagine you would not much like her sister-city, the Cothromach.

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[survivra]

I'm sure the Cothromach is beautiful in its way, and I would enjoy the sight. But if it's underground as well, no, I imagine I would not stay for long. I prefer not to stay in one place overlong, anyway. Do you at least have windows?

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[steeledskin]

Not in any one of the conventional senses, I'm afraid. The Keep boasts windows -- but only ones that look upon the statue garden, and the sprawling city below the mountain.