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Fellow [ ... ] shardholders. Seven blessings upon you all.

[ sansa is back in caer glaem, but there is no visual recording to accompany this address. (perhaps foolishly) she believes she may be somewhat protected from joffrey's attention. she would avoid an address altogether, but she feels there are those in the opposing court who ought to be quietly warned against the evil presence in their midst. trouble is, she doesn't know their names. and so here is a quiet attempt to draw out some of those people she'd spoken with at the very outset of using these lockets. ]

These lands are impressive. I have spent the larger part of two turns of this moon travelling them. Their roads are hard, perhaps, but I find myself oddly...pleased that I made any progress at all. [ there is a quiet (and honest) reverence in her voice. improvement and daring is not a thing she expects of herself, and so the mere understanding that she can now build a fire or ride a horse for days? it kindles something in her heart. a spark of pride. ] Seelie. Unseelie. Both territories boast beautiful landscapes -- I should like to see them painted, perhaps. Are there any artists in either court? Painters? Sculptors? [ ... ] Have we any musicians? These kingdoms must have their own songs. I would fain learn them.

From what played at the first feast, I imagine fairy music must always be a delight.

[ a protracted conversations, perhaps. but she hopes to catch the ear of wary allies and would-be friends. and as for her public behaviour? ah, well. she will be alayne stone a little longer. she is not ready to reclaim herself in one headlong rush. small steps and little leaps must be made. ]

(ooc: this post comes on the evening of june 27th. if your character is in caer glaem and is more apt to find here somewhere around the castle, go ahead and hit me with an action thread instead. i'm good with it. )

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The world around you is even more beautiful if you get to see it for yourself. Maybe you'll get a chance to travel and see more.

Edited 2014-06-27 17:56 (UTC)

I pray it will be a long time before I travel again. [ a mild pause. ] The lands may be pretty, but the weeks I've spent on its roads were more than enough for me at the moment.

Yeah. It's still weird to think it can take so long to travel between places here. Hopefully you don't plan to stay in one place forever now, I think there's still a lot out there to see.

[ the honest response is simple: she will stay where her father stays. where her sister stays. where her brother stays. but alayne stone cannot say it-- ]

I like the castle. [ she is careful not to say which one. ] Surely, there is nothing wrong with staying here a while.

I guess the castles are nice. [ Uncertainly. He's never really been in one. Seen one, sure, briefly as they were running from the reporter. But he'd never been interested in them and they were different from the buildings he was used to. ] Mm, I didn't say there was. But it'd be a waste to see the world only from paintings, wouldn't it?

I assure you -- I've seen a fair share with my own eyes.

[ or a fair enough share. nearly two months on the drabwurld's roads was quite a lot of time. ] Now is the time for rest and paintings. I hope.

There's always more to see. That's all I was saying.

[ But it doesn't seem to be of interest to her, so he drops it with a breath. ]You could always pain them yourself.

And I may yet. Suddenly, I have all these hours with no paths to follow and no journeys to make. I could paint a hundred thousand things in all that time.

Do you paint?

I wouldn't say you have no paths to follow or journeys to make. But at least here everyone is free to start their own ways, right? So you can find something you want to do and do it. Even painting.

[That might have earn an embarrassed laugh there.]

We had art classes in school, but it's not something I do for fun.

What is it you do for fun, then?

[ by now she ought to have introduced herself -- but she's trying to delay that lie a little longer. ]

[ There's almost a surprised pause. What he does for fun isn't something he's ever really thought about. And now that he did, there wasn't much he could think of. Especially lately where they were too busy for him to consider that much. The pause doesn't last long as he settles on something, something he's always done. ]

I guess fly FPs or IFOs.

-- Beg pardon?

[ she doesn't know any of those words. or letters, as the case may be. ]

Oh. Um, they're machines that fly. FPs are things civilians can use. They're for travel, like horses, but they go faster. IFOs can do the same, but they're for weapons, too.

Weapons? Like swords?

...No. I'd say imagine if a sword could take out hundreds of people at once instead of one or two. That's the weapons on the IFOs. But not a lot of people can use them and they're not used against people.

[ it sounds monstrous! ]

Pray tell...what are they used against, if not people?

...When I first starting piloting Nirvash it was against the Secrets. Things have changed since then, but Secrets were monsters. If Nirvash could hurt hundreds, Secrets would attack thousands. Secrets appeared where I came from for along time and millions of people were hurt, so we piloted IFOs to stop them before they could.

Edited 2014-07-02 11:05 (UTC)

How can secrets be monsters?

[ she's taking one of those two words a little too literally. ]

They're not secrets like the things people keep hidden. Their things that appeared to attack something called Scub Coral and people just got in the way.

Edited 2014-07-03 13:14 (UTC)

So your people are the bystanders. The unplanned casualties. How tragic.

That's why we have to do what we can, right? I piloted the Nirvash so no one would get hurt. That's why any of us did.

[ Well, except Fleur. Fleur had daddy issues, but she didn't want people to die either... ]

Edited 2014-07-04 16:53 (UTC)

...You must be very brave.

I don't think it's like that, because everyone's doing what they can.

Are there no cowards? Certainly, someone must be too craven to fight.

You don't have to fight to do something. There's plenty a person can do without it.

I didn't want to fight. [ ]

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