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eachdraidh2014-05-29 05:55 pm
kingsdaughter) wrote in eachdraidh2014-05-29 05:55 pm
Video | Forward-dated to June 2
[Sigrid has the locket propped up like a mirror on her dresser. Flung over the arm of her chair is a mass of scarlet wool she is sewing into a new gown. Everything else in her room looks, to her, rather sparse and unlived-in. She's never had her own room all to herself. Nervously, she brushes stray hairs away from her face even though they were never in the way.]
I've kept my own house these last six years.
...What I'm saying is I need work, and I'm willing to work. I'm good with children, if you need any looked after. Otherwise I can do chores as you need them. I read and write well, and I sew, cook, spin, and knit. And clean, of course, and do laundry and all. Da taught me ciphering so I could manage our money. Anything else, I can learn.
Thank you.
I've kept my own house these last six years.
...What I'm saying is I need work, and I'm willing to work. I'm good with children, if you need any looked after. Otherwise I can do chores as you need them. I read and write well, and I sew, cook, spin, and knit. And clean, of course, and do laundry and all. Da taught me ciphering so I could manage our money. Anything else, I can learn.
Thank you.
Action
Protection.
[That's the ticket right there, really. That's what she needs most, in this friendless world, and it's the one thing she can't get for herself.]
And I don't mean ceremonial, I mean practical. I don't need a guard at my door, but I need a good dagger and shoes I can run in, and I need you to speak in my favor if someone is telling lies about me.
Re: Action
Protection which is not practical and real is not worth the name. And it is part of my oath, to a sworn servant or bannerman, that I protect you. Speaking on your behalf, battling on your behalf, even posting the guard or being it, where necessary. Guarding your honour in all things, for it is also mine.
But if it's something practical you prefer, and your protection you'd like seen to before aught else... I believe I can do better for you than a dagger and shoes, though those also I will happily provide for you.
Action
[Thinking of something, she hesitates.]
Were you elected as lord, or were you born into it?
Re: Action
Aye, that's true enough. Or to gain support of bannermen. Men use false word to gain themselves all manner of things.
I was born into my title; and Starks have ruled Winterfell since the time of the First Men. But that may very well mean nothing to you, and I won't trouble you with the sad stories behind it; the heart of the matter is a simple one. Trust.
Are you willing to trust me?
Action
Yes, I think so. We elect our lord, and anyone who's elected is only likable until they're in power, I think. Someone born to it is reared for it their whole life, or should be. That's better than just deciding you want to do it and getting a lot of people to like you long enough to vote for you. And you've been honest with me and you don't patronize me.
[And he has daughters. He reminds her so much of her own father she feels a bit heartsick.
Swallowing, she lifts her eyes to meet his.]
When...would I start today?
Re: Action
I wasn't groomed for it.
But all the same he rose a little in his seat, and extended his hand to her across the table.]
My intention would be to begin here and now, unless you've other duties to tend to. For a period of seven days, upon which you'll be paid as promised in morning's light, and we can determine if the arrangement suits both parties well enough to continue it. If yes, then I shall take you on in formal circumstance; if no, then we may at least part ways with no grievance.
Action
Agreed.