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[wolvesremain]

[ When the feed begins, only the side of a boy's face can be seen; blue eye wide but drowsy from lack of sleep, pale skin, and a peek of a mess of auburn hair. He looks young, but weathered. His attention isn't on the camera, though, and when he speaks, it's to address someone else entirely. ]

That isn't yours. [ The camera jostles as he reaches

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[cowboy_newsie]

Is that a direwolf?

[A beat.]

Oye, oye, are you a-- d'ya know a girl named Sansa?

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[wolvesremain]

It is, yes.

[ The last question earns him a wary look. ]

... How is it you know my sister?

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[cowboy_newsie]

She's here. She's been here, she's-- oye, which brother are you, then?

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[wolvesremain]

Robb Stark, King in the North. May I ask your name? [ And why you're not calling his sister 'Lady Sansa', sob. ]

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[cowboy_newsie]

Jack Kelly. Just . . . Jack Kelly, we don't have no titles where I'm from. I thought that Joffrey kid were the king.

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[wolvesremain]

A pleasure, Jack Kelly. [ And he darkens at the mention of Joffrey. ] He may sit on the Iron Throne, but he is no king.

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[cowboy_newsie]

Oh. Well. Fine by me, he sounded like a bastard anyway. Oye, anyone tell you all about here yet?

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[wolvesremain]

Ah, yes. [ How to earn points with Robb 101. ] Only that the device through which I speak with you is called a watch.

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[cowboy_newsie]

Mm, yeah, kinda. Er. Well, we're in the middle o' a trail, the year is 186-somethin', we're stuck here til Christ knows when, and we're headed to Oregon. There's loads o' people from-- from different years and different worlds and some can do magic, which I thought were impossible, but then again you got a huge wolf at your beck and call so who the hell knows what you think is impossible.

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[wolvesremain]

Is there a reason we're headed to this "Oregon"? [ The rest has him at a loss. ] They can "do magic"? Of what sort?

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[cowboy_newsie]

All sorts, it's great. But, uh, Oregon . . . originally, people'd go to settle down out West, to find a new life. Beats me why we're goin', though.

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[wolvesremain]

Is there something that sways our desire to travel West, then? [ Robb can't imagine a bunch of people moving to one place with no reason to. ]

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[cowboy_newsie]

The fact we can't turn around, for starters.

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[wolvesremain]

That's - [ He stops himself and glances away from the camera presumably to peer the direction the wagons came from before his attention returns. ] Is it another sort of magic?

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[cowboy_newsie]

Probably. I dunno, exactly. Nobody does.

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[wolvesremain]

[ A sigh. ] This is all quite strange.