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[aliased]

I need someone to tell me the way to the Unseelie court.

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[steeledskin]

[ thank the gods for that. indeed, she breathes a little better. ever since she'd witnessed his excessive violence on the locket, sansa has been in a teetering state. on edge. precarious. ser gendry has minutely managed to talk down her instinct to flee father and faster -- but it still lurks there in her heart, like the beat of panicked wings. ]

How glad I am that you have each other.

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[aliased]

You have Gendry. [ her gendry.] And Nymeria.

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[steeledskin]

I know. I know I do. I never said I didn't. Only that I was grateful to know you had--

[ the text stops. one-two-three seconds. ] I'm grateful for what I have, as well.

[ demure and well-broken, she takes the path of least conversational resistance. ]

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[aliased]

I know.

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[steeledskin]

I'm not certain I was ever this well-guarded even in the Vale.

[ but she still panics. and has done so more frequently since joffrey's arrival. ]

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[aliased]

Who protected you at the Vale?

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[steeledskin]

Often it was Ser Lothor Brune. A freerider until he was knighted after the Blackwater. Perhaps you remember him -- he rode against Jory at the Tourney they held for our Lord Father. [ she knows a great deal about ser lothor. bits and pieces picked up in the eyrie's halls. ] He is under Lord Baelish's employ, and therefore charged with my care.

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[aliased]

I do not remember him.

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[steeledskin]

I suppose you wouldn't. His face was not so memorable -- but it was honest.

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[aliased]

Was he a bannerman for House Arryn or was he a sellsword?

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[steeledskin]

A freerider. [ she writes again, nimbly avoiding any accusations of mercenary behaviour. ] Knighted under the Lannisters but ultimately loyal to Lord Baelish.

[ or at least to baelish's purse-strings. ] He speaks little. Lord Baelish dismissed the Eyrie's captain of the guard and put Ser Lothor in his place.

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[aliased]

And you trust Littlefinger?

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[steeledskin]

Lord Baelish delivered me from King's Landing. He protects me in the Vale.

[ but she doesn't say yes. because perhaps she does trust lord baelish. but not littlefinger: littlefinger is a face she does not trust at all. ]