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[tyrellrose]

[ taking place some time after this.

The Forge flickers on. A bright-eyed girl is looking into the screen, curly hair framing a gentle smile. She's wearing a Victorian men's jacket (sorry, Renly, you'll never get it back again) over what appears to be a wedding dress. Ulterior motives? Of course she has none. ]I do hope that you won’t scare off

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[fearcutsdeeper]

voice;

Winter comes quickly here.

[Margaery Tyrell. She mentally locks the name to the face on the Forge. The sound of it is familiar -- the Tyrells, of Highgarden -- but it means little to her, in practice.]

[tyrellrose]

video;

So I gathered. Do you have a name, my little helpful ghost?

[fearcutsdeeper]

Maybe.

If you tell me who you are.

[tyrellrose]

You know my name already. I was once a queen, but titles hold no weight here. Instead, I will say that I am someone lucky enough to have found friends and family waiting in an unfamiliar world.

[fearcutsdeeper]

...So am I.

[A pause.]

Arya Stark.

[tyrellrose]

[ Pause. She remembers Sansa. ]

I was friends with your sister, and I hope I can one day call you a friend as well. Do you ride, Arya?

[fearcutsdeeper]

[oh god what is this befriending

She listens with suspicion, but when Margaery asks her the question, the answer comes unbidden to her lips, and she feels almost like the old Arya Stark again.]

Better than Sansa.

[tyrellrose]

[ achievement unlocked: befriend a stark lvl 3 ]

Then we shall go riding sometime. Or perhaps hawking, if that is more to your tastes?

[fearcutsdeeper]

I've never been hawking.

[tyrellrose]

I'll take you hawking, then, if there are trained hawks to be found here. If not, well, we will train one ourselves.

[voice l private & threadjacky]

[isherarmor]

I've been hawking. I've been before! And I'm not terrible, I just---

[How is it you manage to bring out this petulance, Arya?]

---I just don't like riding.

[Be better at it, she doesn't care. (She kind of does) Just don't make her do it.]

I could take you if you wanted.