meet me in the red sky and dance with me;

[wolfchild]

ota; joint action with robb; forbidden forest;

[ the forbidden forest it may be called, but arya could find little reason for it to be forbidden. she could not see anything that really merited the moniker. she pictured strangling vines, carnivorous flowers, distant screams of animals. what she found was quite tame in comparison.

but even if it had had all what she had imagined, she would go inside regardless. the direwolves were in there.

no one had stopped her today when she tried to walk out in normal clothes so there's no heavy robe to snag on a root or bushes. the clothes are all earth clothes, but they're comfortable and good to move in. she grins up at robb as they walk into the shade. it almost feels like being back north, in the wolfswood, where she was never allowed to join the boys, though bran could even if he was younger and weaker and not as good a rider. having aemon and northern son would make it better, but she doesn't mind walking. less so when she's with her brother. ]

Will you go with me to the pitch tomorrow? You can help me practice. I'm really good at it, did you see?

[ she knows he did. but arya hasn't yet tired of hearing robb tell her he was proud of her. she doesn't think she ever shall. ]

ota; dictated; action for the owlery;

[ the soft sounds of cooing and rustling wings float through the air. seated on the steps to the owlery, arya strokes winter's glossy feathers. though she has her journal open in front of her, arya watches the darkening evening sky. when she speaks, it sounds almost like she's thinking out loud. ]

Where did everyone go today? Why did some have to stay behind?

closed (ｉｎｏ); forward-dated to sunday;

[ early morning and arya is ensconced in a corner of one of the rarely used herbology labs. she ignores the whispering plants and focuses on the papers spread in front of her. she waves her wand over them, muttering furiously under her breath. when nothing happens, she swears. loudly. and very creatively. ]

(( ooc: for the forbidden forest section, both arya and robb will be tagging yours. c: ))

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[wolfchild]

[ she smiles, a tiny reflexive thing that she does not feel, and keeps her hand in robb's. before she may have dropped it out of embarrassment that anyone saw. now she only leans closer to her brother.

as an aside to robb, she whispers: ] He doesn't remember anything. [ just to be sure august cannot understand if it carries, she says it in the common tongue of westeros. ]

[unvarnished]

[well it's not Parseltongue but it's still odd. He feels a little awkward with a Gryffindor in the vicinity, even if it is Arya's older brother. Might as well try to be polite]

Hello, Robb. Arya.

[wolfskin]

[ Robb's brow furrows, blue eyes looking from Arya to August. He does not remember? That would explain the stiff posture he sees on him, as if all they had been through together previously no longer existed and the bitter rivalries between his house and August's were a very real thing to him.

The king smiles faintly, fingers squeezing Arya's hand within his own. ]

August.

[wolfchild]

You didn't go out too?

[ through a window, she had seen a steady stream of people leaving the castle earlier. she had assumed most people she knew would be among them. ]

[unvarnished]

I can go to Hogsmeade anytime.

[he says it casually enough, shrugging his shoulders. The fact that he feels safe here is something he doesn't really talk about, because it just sounds weird. With the man-eating spiders, the centaurs and the giant roaming around, no one should feel safe in this forest.

But something about the trees makes him feel at home. Like he's a part of them, somehow. Rather than share any of that, he does his usual and lies, twitching in pain the second the words leave his mouth]

I wanted to see if I could catch a glimpse of that magical car that roams the forest.

[wolfskin]

Magical car? [ Robb scoffs, shifting his weight from one foot to the other as half of his attention shifts to the trees around them. Truthfully he has no idea what a magical car would look like, regardless of their previous stay within Tokyo- his time was not spent wandering the streets.

Either way he hasn't the desire to seek out such a thing, their reason for being here is clear and one neither of them are likely to get side tracked from. ]

It is reckless of you to wander the forest alone.

[wolfchild]

[ she cants her head. ]

Did you get hurt yesterday?

[unvarnished]

I wander the forest alone all the time. [he gives Robb an easy smile that stays on when Arya asks her question. Thank you for giving him the perfect alibi for the leg problem]

Yeah, but don't worry about it. I'll be fine in time for the finals.

[wolfskin]

[ He is not so convinced, a frown furrowing his brow. ]

You should get it looked at before it becomes worse.

[wolfchild]

[ arya swings robb's hand lightly while he talks. direwolves, bro. ]

[unvarnished]

I'll do that. [welp that was a lie. Okay, time for a diversion, and Arya provides one]

I think your sister wants you to go with her.

[wolfskin]

Aye. [ HE KNOWS SIS. ] We are in search for something.

[wolfchild]

[ bro bro why would you admit that tho ]

[unvarnished]

The forest is a good place to look for things. Don't let me keep you.

[wolfskin]

[ he knows what he is doing, shush. a nod. ]

Take care yourself, August. These woods are not as safe as you may think.

[wolfchild]

Goodbye.