II ♚ ( A C C I D E N T A L ) V I D E O
[ Someone's Forge turns on. Though, it would appear that it is not quite a someone who is working it. Rather, it is a goshawk that seems to have let its way into someone's living area via an open window. That someone remains absent from the feed for some time, until finally he reveals himself, carrying what appears to be a glass of water, and looking like he had a rather unfortunate encounter with a stove. However, after little more than a couple of weeks in Anatole, Stannis Baratheon is looking somewhat healthier than when he arrived.
But none of that particularly matters because when he sees the bird, Stannis drops his glass in shock.
Impossible.
His first thought was that it was idiotic idea of a jape. However, he quickly discerns such a thing to be false. There were perhaps four men who knew of such a thing and only two were in Anatole. And of those two men, he remained doubtful that either Robert or Renly had the patience or the memory to recall... ]
Proudwing.
[ It would seem that this world was determined to have him live in the past, first with his two dead brothers and now with a reminder of a young lad's folly. It should not be, yet there she was. He was not a man to forget such things easily, and the hawk had all the same markings, the same feathers missing from her wings. The same everything.
In spite of all of this, and perhaps out of the absurdity of the situation, he finds himself smiling at the hawk. While she had never been any use to him hawking, she had been a decent companion (even if he had little use for companionship). He heads over to the window that she came from...
And notices that his Forge was recording.
Almost immediately, his frown returns, and he grabs the Forge, fiddling with it for a moment as he tries to turn it off again. ]
The Others take this infernal-
[ The video feed goes blank first, and shortly thereafter, the audio (though not after a few more colourful curses to R'Hllor and the Seven). ]
But none of that particularly matters because when he sees the bird, Stannis drops his glass in shock.
Impossible.
His first thought was that it was idiotic idea of a jape. However, he quickly discerns such a thing to be false. There were perhaps four men who knew of such a thing and only two were in Anatole. And of those two men, he remained doubtful that either Robert or Renly had the patience or the memory to recall... ]
Proudwing.
[ It would seem that this world was determined to have him live in the past, first with his two dead brothers and now with a reminder of a young lad's folly. It should not be, yet there she was. He was not a man to forget such things easily, and the hawk had all the same markings, the same feathers missing from her wings. The same everything.
In spite of all of this, and perhaps out of the absurdity of the situation, he finds himself smiling at the hawk. While she had never been any use to him hawking, she had been a decent companion (even if he had little use for companionship). He heads over to the window that she came from...
And notices that his Forge was recording.
Almost immediately, his frown returns, and he grabs the Forge, fiddling with it for a moment as he tries to turn it off again. ]
The Others take this infernal-
[ The video feed goes blank first, and shortly thereafter, the audio (though not after a few more colourful curses to R'Hllor and the Seven). ]