(third lemon cake) voice ✧ open to both courts

[steeledskin]

( VOICE: OPEN TO BOTH COURTS )

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. )

Comments

[steeledskin]

Good fortune, then, to whichever court manages to convince him to their doorstep.

[gordianknots]

So long as they're quite okay with his preference for regarding rules only when they suit his desires.

[steeledskin]

He must be brave or foolish to care so little for rules.

[gordianknots]

Both, actually. To my occasional frustration, but in the past, it did result in good opportunities that otherwise might not have occurred.

[steeledskin]

I can't see how being either would bring good fortune --

[ baelish has taught her that caution reaps rewards. not recklessness. ]

[gordianknots]

I'll give an example: when we were working together, he went to someone else's home with a barrel of wine, and invited the individual in the house, plus another person, to come and discuss the matter that we were all involved in - to avoid spilling blood, nominally. While that didn't happen, the luxury of a new perspective was achieved, and all involved were at least afforded a chance to better understand each other.

It was an unexpected move that no one involved would have expected, and there was some payoff in the end, as some of the parties gained a new respect for each other.

[steeledskin]

My lord. Is the getting of a new perspective worth it when blood was presumably still spilled?

[gordianknots]

It would've been spilt regardless, and a few deaths were prevented as well.

[Such as Waver's.]

[steeledskin]

But no tides were changed.

[ tides, it seems, so very rarely changed for anything but nature and fate. ]

[gordianknots]

Not in the overall sense, but in the personal sense.

[And as an adult, Waver has to admit that how the war concluded was, in retrospect, inevitable, thanks to the Grail's corruption. Not that anyone knew that at the time.]

[steeledskin]

In your person, my lord?

[gordianknots]

Among others, yes.