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[Sigrid is looking fairly haggard and pale. Behind her is the rugged green wilderness surrounding the Station, though the Station itself is not in sight.]

I'm in the middle of nowhere at all and I've got a bad leg. I couldn't find my locket and I had to ask a thrush to find it for me. A thrush. I'm talking to thrushes and they answer me. Anyway I need help. The thrush said he'd go and find someone, but I don't know who he meant. Does anyone know if thrushes are wise birds or silly birds? If he brings back a bear or something, I've got to hide now.

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An imp tried to take it off a few days ago. With his teeth.

[Between orcs and imps, Sigrid is about 5000% done.]

Edited 2014-06-15 19:42 (UTC)

Gods! [ the tale, however brief, drags this imprecation from her. ] But if it was days ago -- it's been cleaned and wrapped, yes?

[ she knows it will be no help in the wild -- after only a few weeks she can consider herself that knowledgeable, at least. but she starts with the simplest request: confirmation that the wound has already been tended. ]

Yes, but I can't put much weight on it. It was propped up on a chair and I was working when some ugly beast came into my room and keened at me. For an hour. I threw a ball of yarn at it and suddenly I was here, talking to birds.

Sorcery! [ ... ] Is there someone perhaps trying to determine your location? This...thrush, perhaps.

[ that actually isn't so weird to her, really. though she'd trust a raven more. ]

The thrush went for help. Good thing he's bringing the Elvenking, who also speaks with birds.

...King Thranduil, you mean? [ she sounds pleased. ] He is a good and noble ally to have.

I never met him before. He's to become friends with my father in the future, I'm told. He likes you, I think. I can never tell if he likes me or if he only troubles with me because of my father and I'm wracking up a great lot of debt to a very dangerous person.

[If she's going to freak out, she may as well freak out about everything all at once. She sounds fairly even, if a bit off-pitch.]

[ as a rule, she is careful to keep a wide berth between sansa and alayne. but today she muddies her own waters with a bit of honesty: ] I can say this in his favour: he knew my father not at all when we first met, and troubled all the same. I want to take his favour and protection for me as something sincere. And now his for you, as well.

I think you will be safe with him. And that makes me happy.

I will be, if something else doesn't get to me first. But I think I'd rather be at Caer Glaem. I've got a lot of work still to do before you and Gendry arrive, and it's all been left.

[That's really the worst part of it all.]

Work! Sweet Sigrid, I hardly think it meet that you should work too hard at all after an ordeal such as this.

But It's my leg hurt, not my hands.

How is your heart? [ sansa herself feels so much fear on a daily basis travelling these roads. she cannot imagine--

and yet-- ] Unless you tell me the work will be soothing in its own right. I can accept it then.

Truly, Alayne, I'd go mad without some task. I'm unused to stillness. It sort of unnerves me, really.

So be it. I would see you working if only for the peace it brings you and the peace of mind it brings me -- because once you are working again you will be behind Caer Glaem's walls again.

[ the matter seems settled. alayne certainly speaks with more certitude and control than sansa ever does. alayne has managed a household and tended to sweetrobin and played cupbearer for her lord father.

sansa fears she only quivers inside. ]

I'm sure there'll be something to do here, on or off my feet. Hopefully off, for a little while.

Do you know how long King Thranduil will be before he reaches you?

I don't, but the thrush wasn't gone long before he called me. No more than a quarter of an hour, I guess.

Oh! [ oh, goodness. ] That is not half so long as I feared. I didn't like the thought of you left alone overnight.

I didn't, either, but it seems I'm lucky this time. So far. You're so very kind to think of me, though.

I know what the nights can be like. Out here. They're safe enough with a knight in tow -- [ or a wolf. ] But otherwise?

[ a shake of her head. sansa takes the time to lock their conversation now that she's decided to keep sigrid company while she waits. ] Thrushes are pretty birds. When we're both together I will introduce you to Artos, a sweet orange canary Arya caught for me. Lady Margaery tends to him in my absence.

Edited 2014-06-18 15:49 (UTC)

You'll have me friends with all numbers of respectable ladies, then.

[She still hasn't really talked about how being a lady is somewhere in her future. She's still sort of in denial over it, a bit.]

I would not count Arya in that number. She may be a lady, but she's hardly respectable.

[ sansa doesn't want to speak ill of her blood. not after everything that's happened. but sigrid is a friend. and in her father's employ. it's not the same, and it isn't as though she hasn't come to love her sister in other fashions. but hardship and absence could not erase every annoyance. ]

[Sigrid does not want to speak ill of Sansa's blood, either, but she clearly suppresses a smile. Barely.]

I did not think you'd have me friends with your sister, my lady. I probably put an end to that already. But I meant the other lady you spoke of, if I'm to help you reclaim him from her.

Margaery is -- she is a sweet and gentle soul, I believe. And has been a good friend to me at a time when I had so few. [ even if she still on occasion doubts the motives. knowing littlefinger has called so much into question. ]

She is a southron. But we mustn't hold it against her.

Oh--! Southrons come to the Lake for trade sometimes. Their skin is dark and they bring the strangest things. Lots of ivory, if you know what that is, and also very bright fabrics and strange pelts. Anyway, some live on the Lake themselves, especially as consignees.

[She drifts off when her brain catches up with what she's saying.]

I don't...know if that's what Southrons are like where you're from.

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