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[The locket first shows the broad wee face of a grinning fairy, who then vanishes to keep it propped up and pointed at a very relaxed, very drunk Sigrid. She is sitting at her little table with a glass and a bottle of sparkling rainbow champagne open before her, cheek resting on a hand spread out on the tabletop. She watches the bubbles in the glass. Another fairy sits atop the bottle and seems to be asking her questions from a list on a piece of paper.]

How old are you?

Fifteen, silly. Sixteen in exactly two months.

Next...what color is your hair?

[Sigrid pulls out a loose curl and goes crosseyed looking at it.]

Never been able to say. Sort of brown, sort of yellow. More yellow. What color would you say it is?

Ah... [The fairy casts aside an entire sheet of the questionnaire and skips ahead.] What do you look for in a romantic partner?

I don't look for them. I mean I suppose if I did he'd be kind and hardworking and want a big family, but I'm not the sort of girl boys like that way, and I haven't the time for it.

Ai! Not true! What about Jon Snow?

Does he? Ohhhhhh... [Sigrid lifts her head slightly, squinting at something off-camera.] I think he's just that nice to everybody, Mee.

That's stupid.

Sort of. And it's also part of what makes him so good. Like Sansa, and Lancelot. So very good no matter how awful things are.

I meant--! Ooh, well. Next! Are you in a romantic relationship?

Uhhhh, no.

Don't you want to be in one?

I don't know. Mee, why are you asking all these questions?

Between Jon Snow and Lancelot, who would you choose? To...share a dance with! [offscreen another tiny voice shrieks, "But they're the same person!"]

Both. Either. And I could protect them both.

At once? [A gigantic toothy grin from the fairy.]

I suppose. What would be wrong with that?

Hee. Heheheh. What would you like to do when you go courting?

I'm not courting. I don't even know what people do when they go courting. I thought it was a lot of hanging out of windows and dropping notes and things. Maybe kissing, if Da let me. I've never been kissed. I wonder how tongues get used when people kiss. I've only heard there are tongues and it sounds horrible. Like when Tilda used to lick me to get me to stop holding her still. Then it's supposed to get even worse, or so Amma said. She said it hurts every time and there's no doing anything about it. I wonder who thought of that first, say, 'let me put this in there and see what happens?'

Ahhhhh next question! What is your favorite color?

Red.

Season?

Summer. But--

Flower?

Mee, what's Yuu doing with my locket?

[The feed cuts off abruptly.]

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What do you mean?

[Aragorn is still something of an oddity to her, but at least she's receptive.]

Your youth is something to savor; you have time enough for discovering love. {He is an oddity to many. Just ask those in the Prancing Pony.} I did not encounter Arwen until I was twenty.

At this stage, love would be a nice little excuse from being busy all the time. But I still don't have time for it. And my fairies were just trying to hurry it along. They think it'd be good for me.

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Love is not a hobby, Sigrid; nor is it an emotion that can be forced when the time is convenient. As you forge relationships with friends and foes, your heart will tell you when love has found you.

{And not a moment before.}

Your Fairies are correct on one point, however. Your life should be more than work.

I had plenty of love, when my family was with me.

[Sigrid looks melancholy.]

It didn't seem nearly so much like work then. But there's always something to get done and sometimes nobody wants to do it, but it has to get done anyway.

The love of family is not the same as romantic love.

{He nods slowly, humming in agreement.}

I do not believe your fate is to be over-worked and unloved. Do what needs doing and seek support from your allies.

That's what I do. My allies have plenty of work of their own. Sometimes people are just busy, you know.

I have never been too busy for a friend in need.

I don't understand. I have my part, they have theirs.

Parts determined by who? Is not friendship itself a part of your life and theirs?

Well, most of them...I'm sworn to the Starks. Sansa's my feudal lord. Lady. Something.

[Sigrid is not from a feudal society.]

But she's also my dearest friend. But her tasks are more important and carry more weight.

What was the oath you swore? The Lady Sansa is around your age, is she not? {Titles are important to some and he is sensitive to that, however it seems a shame the two cannot connect as fellow young women in a strange land.} Have you spoken to her about your need? It is not a weakness to seek the wisdom and comfort of others.

What need? She's working all the time, too. I don't understand what you mean.

Have you never had a friend who made you their priority?

Who says I should be anybody's priority?

Everyone should have someone who makes them their priority else you will be lonely.

That was my da. He's not here.

Then find another to fill the position until next you meet, child.

That's not as easy as it sounds. It doesn't look very good on a page you nail up.

There is subtlety in these matters. Bonds must be strong for friends to become like family.

So what are you saying I should do?

Open yourself to others - to Lady Sansa. Do not assume duty is on the forefront of her mind all the time.

It isn't. She's just...she's gone, lately. She went to Troichean Beinn and I haven't seen her in a long time now.

The Lockets are useful for communication.

But it isn't the same. She can't be here, and I can't be there, and we only know what we tell each other. It's harder to just...know, when something's wrong.

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