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[Loras looks like the very last thing he wishes to be doing, right now, is to be talking into the locket.

But he has to do this. He can grieve alone. That is what he has always done. And with the last person who truly knew him gone... it is what he must do.]

Lady Sansa Stark is gone.

We have searched the Cothromach, and found her shard.

[He presses his lips together, and apparently finding some steel in his spine, sits up straighter.]

The fate of the Cothromach in her absence will no doubt be decided by others greater than myself. But as one of her right hands, I assure you that I will do my best to protect those who live and visit here until a decision has been made.

[He believes that is what Sansa would have wanted; but this is not what he has ever trained for. He is a fighter, a knight, not a leader. He isn't Renly, he isn't Margaery. But he'll try, for now, until someone else comes to take her place.]

For those of you who do not know, I am Ser Loras Tyrell, former Lord Commander of the Rainbow Guard and the keeper of one of the white towers.

If any of you need anything, or wish to discuss the loss of Lady Stark, I will be in the Cothromach until further notice.

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[Her smile is sweeter when he says that.]

We arrived here together. She was my first friend here, though I knew her as Alayne then. [A sweet, caring girl broken by what has happened to her. She knows the feeling, to be so at the will of what has been done.]

I got to see her blossom, to meet her father, and her siblings. Never has she come alight then when she was with them.

[She looks fondly into the distance for a moment.]

We had tea once, back in Caer Glaem. Another young woman we had met here, a lady from her own world, your world, her and I. [It made her feel like she belonged, to have a group of women together.] It seems I am the only one left now.

I am glad she dropped the name she once carried. [To see Sansa with that name would have been hard; harder than it was to see her as he knew her.]

She has strong ties to family, as do I. She was to be apart of mine once, actually.

[But the Lannisters--]

And what girl was that?

We all carry things from home we don't want others to know. [She can understand it. She lied about her marriage when she first arrived.] But it did not suit her here, and she was happier for it.

[Which is all Lucrezia wanted for the girl.]

It was Lady Sansa, Lady Margaery Tyrell, Sigrid, and myself. We spent the afternoon having tea, and I cannot think of a simpler time here.

Then you had tea with my darling sister. The best thing that has ever existed in my life, and ever will again. I am glad you were able to know her, for a time.

[It is hard not to smile at that.]

She had mentioned she had a brother here. I was indeed fortunate enough to meet her. I was sorry to hear that she had left these lands, too. It seems many have since I was brought here.

I often feel that I may be bad luck.

Those associated with me seem to always be brought sorrow.

I think it is just life. [She frowns for a moment.]

It is never fair, and we lose more as we get older. There will always be those who seek to take from us.

Of course we lose more the older we get--because people get older. But what I am speaking of is not the same.

I suppose some people know loss too intimately. [She can relate, but she's still trying, telling herself that what has already happened can be avenged, can be made better. She's not yet too cynical, broken by her own circumstances.]

Yes, some people do.

[Loras is totally past trying. He's just so done with it all.

Sorry for him being a bitter pants]

You would not be alone then, stuck by the machinations of others while the world around you falls. [Her own brother killed her lover. She can relate.]

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