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Video 3 - Margaery's Apartment

[The video opens not in the Sewing Shop but in Margaery's apartment where she's sitting in the middle of her bed, a pillow clasped in her arms. she's looking down from the camera and she's in a bathrobe and nightgown, both wrinkled. her hair is disheveled and her eyes are heavily rimmed with red, as though she's spent a long time crying. which she has been. a whole day and night and a new day of crying.

she tries to look up at the camera, clear her throat and speak, but the words don't come. fresh tears well in her eyes and she looks down again, biting her lower lip.

a long moment passes with nothing but Margaery fighting back tears and silent. finally, she looks back up at the camera and speaks]

I--I thought people may want to know that Matt Murdock is no longer among us. His. His help was invaluable in the time before the Null invasion and [her voice breaks] he will be missed greatly.

[she brushes a tear off of her cheek, looking down again. she forces herself to look back up and continues]

I need to apologize to those I promised garments to. I. It will be at least another month before they're finished. I'm--I'm sorry.

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[Abigail has difficulty with people like who see the world in absolutes, because she feels they'll always see her as evil. And she has trouble understanding that point of view. Was her father evil or sick? Hannibal was good to her, evil to others. It's all too complicated for simple labels to her. Still, she can't comment when her new friend is grieving.]

I'm guessing he was a smart man? It must mean you shouldn't judge yourself for those sins either. He wouldn't want you to.

[well, Margaery has no room to judge when her own past involves the alliance with the Lannisters and complicity in the Red Wedding]

He's a lawyer. From what I've been told, that makes him very smart. And you're right, I shouldn't. It's just hard sometimes.

It really is hard. Sometimes I have nightmares about my father's victims coming back to judge me.

[And her own victims too,though that's even harder to talk about.]

I understand. I had nightmares about the Red Wedding and that was entirely fault of the Lannisters, the Boltons, and the Freys. I can only hope that the victims found peace, just as I hope that your fathers victims have, too.

[she had to countenance much during her long engagement to Joffrey. worse, she had to pretend to like his more perverse urges]

I like to think they're in another world and not just in my memory palace. I'm not sure if I believe it though. Maybe resting in peace is the best thing to wish for.

What was the red wedding?

What's a memory palace? If you don't mind my asking.

[Margaery takes a deep breath and seems to be steeling herself]

The Red Wedding was. . . Westeros was at war. The War of the Five Kings. One of those kings was Robb Stark, the King in the North. He was never defeated on the battlefield, so my grandfather-in-law had to come up with--with another plan of doing away with him.

So he went to one of Robb Stark's bannermen, Roose Bolton, and offered him the North in exchange for betraying Robb. He took the offer.

Robb's uncle was to wed a daughter of Walder Frey, one of Robb's mother's bannermen. Walder Frey offered Robb, his mother, and Robb's bannermen bread and salt, as is custom to establish guest right. A guest is never to be harmed, you see. It's an old Westerosi custom, dating back to the First Men. They must have felt themselves to be safe.

Walder Frey waited until the wedding of Robb's uncle to one of Walder's daughters had taken place. Once that was done and the wedding feast commenced, Walder Frey had his men break guest right. They slaughtered Robb Stark, his queen, his mother, and the entirety of his army. Cut off Robb Stark's head and sewed the head of his wolf in its place.

And it was my grandfather-in-law who planned it all.

Edited 2018-01-23 04:08 (UTC)

A memory palace is an imaginary place in your mind that you create. You assign each room to someone or something from your past. You can visit those memories anytime you want and the ones you don't want can be locked away in their own room. It doesn't have to be a castle, any place with rooms works. It's based on a memory trick.

[Abigail closes her eyes for a moment at the end of the story. It's so different from her past, she never witnessed any mass killings, having been brought to Hadriel before the 'red dinner' at Hannibal's home. The part about the wolf's head is familiar though. It sounds to her, almost as if it could have been Hannibal's style of 'art'. She's not sure what to say, so she simply opens her eyes again and says

I'm sorry.

I would need a castle for all of the memories I have. I take it that you do as well?

[the Red Wedding holds a tricky place in Margaery's mind. it's true that it did stop the war for the most part. it's true that House Tyrell benefited from it. it's also true that it was a horror and she had to try and comfort Sansa Stark, Robb's sister, in the aftermath of it]

It was a dishonorable way to defeat Robb Stark, but the Lannisters never cared about honor.

I do. A castle with more rooms that are locked up than open.

[Abigail thinks back to all her father's values.]

My dad thought he was honouring his victims, because of what he did with their bodies. He was very sick.

That's understandable, given what you've endured. Mine. . . I was a happy, well taken care of child. My problems didn't start until House Tyrell took a side in the War of the Five Kings.

[she hesitates a moment]

What did he do with their bodies. [she hastens to reassure] You don't have to tell me if it's too painful.

I didn't have to go through any wars or anything like that. I guess that's something.

[She pauses and when she speaks her voice is barely above a whisper.]

He was a cannibal.

Wars may sound romantic, but the reality is anything but. I hope that you continue to avoid war in the future.

[she has to take a moment to be sure that she heard correctly]

A cannibal? As in, he. . . ate their flesh?

[even in Westeros, that's a big no-no]

Me too.

[Abigail fidgets for a moment, making the decision not to mention that he fed them to her and her mother as well.]

He ate their organs. The bones he used for plumbing putty. He used every part of them.

[Except for one girl whose body he put back in her bed after realizing her organs were 'tainted' because of an illness she had]

That's--that's horrible. Oh, Abigail. What you must have endured.

[her voice is nothing but pure sincerity]

It was horrible. And after my parents died, someone painted the word cannibals on my home, close to the spot where my mother died. As if my mother was somehow guilty too. It wasn't fair.

People are--often unfair. Cruel.

I wish you were here, so I could embrace you.

We should meet up in person sometime. I think we could both use that hug.

[she hiccups a laugh through the sob that threatens to raise to the surface]

Indeed! We've both had a--a difficult day.

I think you had a rougher day than me. I've had more time to deal with my losses.

Yes. I truly don't know what I'm going to do without Matt. Without being loved.

You'll find a way to go on. Because you have to.

I feel kind of the same way about Hannibal being gone sometimes.

And because he wouldn't want me to just--waste away.

Hannibal is someone you love?

Hannibal is...was my guardian. He took care of me after my parents died, kept me safe and he was here too for a while. I loved him like he was my father. I wish he had been my father.

He must be a very kind man to look out for you that way.

He was very kind to me.

[It's hard to explain Hannibal. She's not sure she wants to, in case he comes back - she doesn't want him known as a killer.]

Kinder than I deserved.

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