ᴇᴄʜᴏᴇs ᴏғ ᴀ ᴄɪᴛʏ ᴛʜᴀᴛ's ʟᴏɴɢ ᴏᴠᴇʀɢʀᴏᴡɴ

[wolfchild]

Room Filter;
[ Arya has a pile of clothes on the floor. One by one, she cuts and rips them. Miraculously, not a single dress has fallen victim. That honor fell upon a grey robe of rough spun wool and a fine page's outfit, which bears on its breast the flayed man of Bolton. The flayed man is the first thing she cuts. ]

Friends;
Who's still here?

Rabbit;
Do you have more of those chocolate eggs?

Frodo;
[ She has the ghosts return his cloak to him. ]

You ought have your cloak back.

Zelos;
[ S'up Zelos. This is a home invasion. And by home invasion I mean she's standing on the sidewalk in front of the house long after night fell. ]

Wake up, stupid!

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[thatrabbitsdynamite]

It does. Back home my googies walk through my realm, getting prepared for winter, before heading through the tunnels for me to hide them.

[wolfchild]

Is that how they keep from freezing?

[ She pokes it lightly. ]

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

In a way, they bring spring to the world, so they're always a little warmer anyway. Magic, you know?

[wolfchild]

Oh. [ Huh. ] Are your seasons short too?

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

They are. We have four in a year.

Are yours long?

[wolfchild]

Summer lasted ten years.

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

[He lets out a low whistle] Long time. Jack would go tropo.

[wolfchild]

It's autumn now. Winter will come soon. It's like to be as long.

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

Years of winter. There are parts of the world, like where my friend North comes from, which stay snowed over all year round. It's not exactly the same, but it's close.

[wolfchild]

That's how it is beyond the Wall. It's always winter there.

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

Is that an actual wall?

[wolfchild]

Yes. It stretches all across the land. It divides the North from the lands beyond. And it's all made out of ice.

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

All of it is made of ice? [He gives an impressed whistle] Crickey, must have taken a while to build.

[wolfchild]

Bran the Builder raised the Wall first. He established the Night's Watch. They guard it and they continued to raise it every year.

My brother's serving in the Night's Watch. My half-brother. He was here too once before.

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

The Night's Watch. They keep the land safe?

You must be proud of him.

[wolfchild]

I am. I truly am.

[ She picks up the egg. ]

But I'll never see him again. Their vows are for life. If he ever leaves the Wall, his life is forfeit. And women aren't allowed at the Wall.

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

I can understand a vow like that, took one myself.

Still, ours allow women, they can be just as good as fighters as us blokes. [Hell, he wouldn't want to tangle with Tooth any day of the week] Especially someone like you.

[wolfchild]

Girls aren't allowed to fight. Girls are to marry and have children.

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

[That gets a snort]

Well, that's just bodgy. I have a friend who's a great warrior, and she's a girl. A princess, even. And I wouldn't want to get on her bad side any day of the week.

[wolfchild]

Well, I can't. No one lets me.

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

Well, then they're missing out. You can try it here, right? [He'll make sure she never, you know, ACTUALLY HURTS HERSELF]

[wolfchild]

I don't fight for fun. If I'm going to fight anyone, it's going to be to kill 'em.

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

[Wow gurl you are just so badass. It's probably why you're his favourite]

Don't let your enemies have a chance to lick their wounds and retaliate, huh?

[He wishes, more often than not, that could have been Pitch's fate. It would saved them so much trouble later on]

[wolfchild]

If it's your enemy for true, you look him in the eye and kill him yourself. If you can't do that, it's probably not your enemy. And you ought let him go.

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

The problem is when he's the enemy of a lot of people, and they all have different ideas of how to deal with him.

...That's assuming he can die at all.