The Unpopping of the Kingslayer

[slayerofkings]

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First, there was darkness.

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[ex_ladyston]

Catelyn didn't think she'd ever been by the popcorn room before, and it was only foul luck that she should run across it now. She hadn't seen Jaime Lannister since her Sorting, but her opinion of him had softened not a whit since then. She stopped, standing quite still and watching him with pale eyes. Perhaps he would not recognize her--the Seven knew what she'd looked like, when she first arrived, and though she bore a resemblance to the woman she'd been when alive, it was only a resemblance.

[slayerofkings]

Jaime only remembered the Catelyn at Hogwarts as having a very nasty gash in her throat and a face in varying degrees of rot. Though, he did remember Catelyn, vaguely, from a time when she was not a zombie.

He stared at the woman before him and asked quietly, "...Have we met before?"

[ex_ladyston]

Ah, he didn't. Catelyn hesitated a moment, wondering whether or not she wanted to remind him, and decided she ought to, if only so she'd know he did. "We met in Westeros," she said. "Before the war."

[slayerofkings]

And then it clicked. "Gods above, Catelyn Stark? Someone fixed you? What sort of maester has that skill?"

[ex_ladyston]

She supposed it ought to be somewhat flattering, that he really didn't recognize her. "A man in the Hospital Wing," she said. "Dr. Cox. He...well, as you can see, can work minor miracles."

[slayerofkings]

"Perhaps even regrow a hand?"

[ex_ladyston]

She paused, thoughtful. "That I do not know," she said. "I have not known anyone who needed such a treatment. Still, it would hurt nothing to inquire."