and all the things I left behind

[wolfchild]

[ Good morning, Paradisa. Settled down after Event Horizon? Yes? Excellent.

Because there is a blood-curdling scream captured by the journal early in the morning.

The cause is a girl on her bed, trying to claw up the wall away from the direwolf. She sobs when the animal comes close. ]


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[the_effect_she_has]

Arya? ARYA Where are you? What's wrong?

[Katniss is already grabbing her bow, her arrows and her knives, scooping up the journal last and running full tilt to the castle.]

forever

[wolfchild]

[ This coming several hours later... ]

Hello?

Re: forever

[the_effect_she_has]

[Katniss had been searching the castle desperately for the girl - for hours - but the castle had gotten her all mixed around. Now ... now she was on the roof. And she had no idea how she had gotten there.]

Son of a - Arya?

[She saw the little bit of script, and she exhaled in relief.] Are you all right? What's wrong?

[wolfchild]

I'm fine.

[ Nan debates asking who this girl is. She opts to play along for the moment. ]

[the_effect_she_has]

You screamed. I was worried. What's wrong?

[Well, she stopped screaming. That was something. Maybe she just had a bad dream.]

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

[And that would be a giant rabbit hole appearing in front of you, Arya. And a giant rabbit jumping out of it in a panic]

Arya? What is it?!!

[wolfchild]

[ She...doesn't see either. She can hear him; the journal open by the door grants her that much. But she thinks it outside because she cannot see anyone and she shouts for help.

Nan's foot slips on the headboard and she falls on the bed again in front of the direwolf. She presses herself back against the headboard, wide-eyed and white with fear.

Nymeria snorts at Bunny. When she tries to nose the girl, another shriek has her backing away, teeth bared. ]

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

[She can't see him.

She can't see him.

His panic grows a little, glancing at the direwolf, as if she;d have all the answers, before turning back to Arya. He'll try again, just once]

Arya, it's me...Bun- Rabbit.

[wolfchild]

[ She starts at the voice. It's nonsense to her, but it's a man. It's a man. He can help. ]

I'm in here! [ She screams at the door. With a choked cry, she inches toward the edge of the bed and away from the direwolf. ] I'm in here, someone help me, please, someone get me out! [ When Nymeria again comes closer, she recoils and falls off the bed. She rolls underneath it, curling up into the smallest ball she can against the wall. ]

[lupinotuum]

[ Remus heard the scream just as he was rolling out of bed, causing him to start and trip, stubbing his toe against a pile of books.

He glances around, before his eyes fall on his journal laying open on his bedside table.

That sounded like-- ]

Arya...? Arya, are you alright?

[wolfchild]

[ Hours later, calm and ensconced somewhere far away from the killer beasts, Nan squints at the letters. They're supposed to be messages for her the king had said. She wants to throw the book into the pond. It'll be just as useful there. ]

You there?

[lupinotuum]

[ The fact that she had taken so long to answer worried him. A scream like that one would worry anyone, really, but this was /Arya/. Not a whole lot could really scare her.

When she finally does answer him, he jumps to write back, taking note of the very different handwriting from her usual script. ]

I'm here. Are you hurt?

[wolfchild]

No. [ She turns the journal upside down as if that will make it any clearer. ] Who are you?

[secondchances]

Arya?

[She'll echo the others, alarmed--what the hell is going on now?]

[wolfchild]

[ She's managed to figure out that different handwriting means a different person. She can't read what is written, though, so she queries: ] Hello?

[secondchances]

Hey... it's Steph. You okay?

[wolfchild]

No. [ what. ] I'm Nan.

[wolfskin]

[ Robb comes crashing through her door sword in hand, tunic half falling off his chest fearing something horrible had happened to his sister. He certainly doesn't expect to see her trying to run from her wolf. ]

Arya?

[ He looks at the direwolf, his own standing in the hallway behind him. ] Nymeria, stop. [ She is less likely to listen to Robb's commands as she is to listen to Arya's, but he has to try. ]

[wolfchild]

[ Nymeria growls. That's her kid, dude, back off. B(

Nan seizes the wolf's distraction to dive off the bed and try to scramble on Robb. ]

Pick me up, pick me up, don't let it kill me, please, I've been good, I swear, don't leave me here…!

[wolfskin]

[ With his free arm he grabs a hold of her, keeping her from falling off him. His head spins, her words making as little sense as her fear of the direwolf. ]

It is alright, she isn't going to hurt you.

Nymeria, go. [ He steps away from the door, allowing Grey Wind a proper view. He growls at her. ]

[wolfchild]

[ Her grip on him tightens when she sees the second wolf. What did she do? Why is she here? Lord Bolton wouldn't put her somewhere like this. She's been good— ]

[ladywinter]

[No. The scream sends Catelyn literally running into Arya's room, her heart feeling like it's about to burst from her chest.

She enters expecting- well, she didn't know what. An assassin, perhaps, like the one that threatened Bran. Theon Greyjoy, come to finish off the last of her children. A headsman. None of it logical, but in her first waking moments she falls back on the images that haunt her.

She was not expecting...whatever this is.]

Arya?

[wolfchild]

[ Wild-eyed, she points at the direwolf. ]

There's a-a— G-get one the soldiers!

[ladywinter]

[Cat frowns. Of all the things for Arya to be upset over, she never would have thought...]

She will not hurt you.


Nymeria, come. [But she has no idea if the wolf will even listen to her and the uncertainty creeps into her voice. She may be a Stark, but she's not really a creature of the North. Not the way the her children were. The connection with the direwolves is something she's been grateful for, but never really felt or understood.]

[wolfchild]

[ Both wolf's and girl's head snap to Cat at the sound of their name. ]

It'll jump me! [ But she's carefully inching off the bed. ]