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[sheriffing]

Makes sense, otherwise everyone would do it.

Everyone could use a little luck here.
That's pretty cool.

[dorzalta]

I most certainly still am.

It's exactly what it sounds like. The day he arrived, my Hand found him standing atop the cliffs, brooding because I refused to listen to his stories about the dead.

[sheriffing]

At least he broods with a decent view?

I've been trying to remind him that not everything is his fault. Not that he believes me.

[dorzalta]

I don't know if he'd had much exposure to the sea. From what I've heard of Winterfell and the Wall, both were rather dreary places. Keep in mind, of course, that my Hand is also extremely biased toward southern climes.

[ A longer pause. Clear hesitance, and for good reason when she asks: ]

You mean my kidnapping?

[sheriffing]

Winterfell just sounds cold, and I've done Maine in the winter.

I mean trusting other members of the guard, and what happened with Ramsay. It's not something I can blame him for, I've done it myself. I just wish I could make things a little simpler for him.

He carries the weight of a few worlds on his shoulders, and I know how heavy that burden is.

[bruxisms]

I AM AWARE OF THAT. I HAVE ALSO BEEN TOLD THAT I ACT FAR OLDER THAN I AM.

[ someone has to be the mature one in his family, after all. ]

[sheriffing]

Most people from your world seem to, that's not just you.

[bruxisms]

IF YOU MET EITHER OF MY BROTHERS, YOU WOULD NOT SAY SUCH A THING.

[sheriffing]

Are they in stasis?

[bruxisms]

MY ELDER BROTHER IS IN STASIS, BUT MY YOUNGER IS AWAKE. OR, AT LEAST, A VERSION OF HIM IS.

THE SITUATION IS SOMEWHAT COMPLICATED.

[sheriffing]

Then maybe one day I'll meet your younger brother and see what you're comparing yourself to.

Complicated?

[tailorable]

jesus
that's such shit
are you recovering okay?

[ from injuries or, worse, death? ]

[guidetoblivion]

Here and everywhere else too.

[A little luck is never out of place after all.]

She isn't awake, unfortunately.

[Though Riku hopes that she'll either wake… or that they'll figure out a way to defeat the Storm before she does.]

[bruxisms]

IT WOULD SEEM THAT THOSE FROM MY REALM REMEMBER TWO DIFFERENT SETS OF EVENTS THAT DIVERGE GREATLY.

FOR INSTANCE, THE "STANNIS BARATHEON" THAT MANY RECALL SEEMS TO BE LITTLE MORE THAN A MADMAN. MY YOUNGER BROTHER IS ALSO DIFFERENT THAN I RECALL,
SEEMINGLY A TOUCH MORE REASONABLE.

[sheriffing]

So, like an alternate universe?

If he's more reasonable and you're more stable, maybe the two of you can have a different relationship here.

[bruxisms]

I SUPPOSE SO, THOUGH THE DIFFERENCES ARE NOT AS VAST AS OTHER WORLDS. PERHAPS A REALM WHERE PARALLEL CHOICES WERE MADE.

I HAVE THOUGHT THAT MYSELF. BE THAT AS IT MAY, HE STILL ROSE UP AGAINST HIS ELDER BROTHER, WHEN HE SHOULD HAVE DONE HIS DUTY.

[sheriffing]

Must make it hard to keep up with everything that happened there.

His elder being you, or the other one?

[sheriffing]

That's true, guess it's just needed all around.

I'm sorry. Maybe eventually, though. People do keep waking up.

[ just never anyone she knows, unfortunately.]

[sheriffing]

Yeah. Compared to what happened to some people, I got off easy.

[ not really injured, and she made it out alive - just traumatized.]

But the power involved in something like that is something I keep thinking about. I should have been able to hold my own.

[tailorable]

[ helplessness. that's the overwhelming feeling. ]

i know people who should have decked a whole squad of kidnappers
mortals and magic sorts and all
reckon they were highly skilled and had some kind of blocker
like how you can jam signals, y'know?
but for superpowers

[ after all, if there's magic that can probide and share powers in wyver, why wouldn't there be the obverse? ]

[guidetoblivion]

Yea, I know. My other best friend woke up with the last wave of newcomers.

Has any of your friends woken yet?

[bruxisms]

IT HAS BEEN A CHALLENGE, BUT THANKFULLY, I HAVE ALLIES THAT HAVE TOLD ME BOTH SIDES OF WHAT CAME TO PASS.

AYE, ME. OR, IN HIS CASE, THE "STANNIS BARATHEON" OF HIS WORLD.

[sheriffing]

Apparently of mine came out of it before I did, and went back into stasis before I woke up.

Aside from that, it's still just me.

[sheriffing]

Gotta love spoilers.

Which isn't the same as you.

[sheriffing]

Yeah, I had a cuff. Kinda like something I've seen back home. It was enchanted by dark magic there, so I can assume whatever they did to it was the same or worse.

[ and the same or worse than Pan's dark magic means they're all screwed.]