ᴡᴇ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴡᴏɴᴅᴇʀᴇᴅ ɪғ ᴡᴇ ʜᴀᴅ ᴇɴᴏᴜɢʜ ᴛɪᴍᴇ

[wolfchild]

[ Ensconced in the solar of her mother's rooms and surrounded by maps and books, Arya clears her throat. For once, she sounds in a good mood. ]

I've been wondering. How long does it take to raise a house? Couldn't there be a way to make maps move and make them easier to use? How do you pronounce this word? [ She carefully writes "acetoarsenite" beside the question. ] What month is it?

[ Fingers trail over an illuminated heart tree. Abruptly recalling the open journal, she finishes: ]

Oh! Does anyone cut hair?

Comments

[wilder]

....March.

Yeah. March 29th.

[The other questions he cannot help]

[savethedarkness]

Acetoarsenite. ....Goodness, you're full of questions today.

Zelos

[wolfchild]

March.

[ t h i n k i n g ]

It is the fourth of the year...? No, that was another one. The second?

When did the year start?

Emma; 1/2

[wolfchild]

I wanted answers!

Emma

[wolfchild]

[ oh and right ]

Thank you.

[ She repeats the word quietly to herself. ]

Arya

[wilder]

It's the third. The fourth month, April, starts on Monday.

Year started in January.

Arya

[savethedarkness]

It's certainly the best way to get them. ... Are you and your family going to build a house, now that your brother is here?

Zelos

[wolfchild]

[ T   H   I   N   K   I   N   G

And a frustrated growl.

Whatever she says next comes out muffled as she's buried her face in a pillow. ]

Arya

[wilder]

Huh?

What is it, my darling little wolf?

Zelos

[wolfchild]

I hate this! I can't remember how long I've been here! I'm not even sure how long I spent in the Riverlands. I think I am two-and-ten, but I could be two-and-ten and a half or even three-and-ten and I don't know. It could have been my nameday already!

Emma

[wolfchild]

No. [ Yes. Probably. Maybe.

Okay the point is they will try. If it's actually habitable, well... ]

You met him then? What did you think? [ READY TO JUDGE ANSWER.... ]

Arya

[savethedarkness]

He was very polite, and wanted to know all I could tell him. Much like his sister. [she sounds amused] I should like to meet him in person someday.

[she's quiet for a moment before what she was trying to remember clicks]. Oh... and also. I've remembered... you can just call acetoarsenite "Paris Green". It's a common nickname, and easier to say and remember.

Emma

[wolfchild]

[ ...okay you pass. ]

I'll tell him. [ Because she can't really make promises for him.

but wait. ] But the color it makes is blue.

Arya

[wilder]

Oh...well...

[oh right. big deal for kids]

Well let's see here! Do you remember the season when you showed up here?

Zelos

[wolfchild]

Summer.

No, that was the season at home. Um...

[ this would be so much easier if you people marked the change of seasons with grumpy white birds ]

It was spring or summer. It wasn't cold. I remember that. It was when we met!

[ Dumped into soul-sucking magic castle after seeing Sean Bean die. Meet Zelos. It was a wonderful first week. ]

Arya

[savethedarkness]

That's because Paris is French, dear, and the French never make any sense.

Emma

[wolfchild]

Like Dorne. [ Arya. No. ]

Arya

[wilder]

[a pause as he thinks. Lucky for you? He has a crazy good memory]

Late April. You'll have been here a year in the latter part of next month.

Arya

[savethedarkness]

If the Dorne usually have strange ideas about what good food is, are generally oafs, and can't keep their bloody priorities straight, then yes. Just like.

Zelos; 1/2

[wolfchild]

So I'll have been here a year. But I was home [ sort of ] for a year. Am I two years older or just one?

Zelos

[wolfchild]

...My head hurts.

Emma

[wolfchild]

[ She thinks back to Ned Dayne and the rest of the Dornishmen she met. ]

Yes.

Arya

[wilder]

Heh, magic castles do have a way of confusing things.

I think that depends on if you count what you physically are or what you've lived through. Like...I knew a guy who was either 28 or 4028, depending on how he counted.

Zelos

[wolfchild]

Four thousand? No one lives that long.

[ Except Galadriel but she's a freak. ]

Arya

[wilder]

Are you kidding? You've met Lady Galadriel- she's even older than that!