Video 5 - Sewing Shop

[roseofthetyrells]

[the video opens on the Sewing Shop, Margaery sitting in front of the camera with her legs crossed neatly at the knee and wearing this. there are three finished items on dress forms in the background and a small stack of bolts of fabric]

Hello, everyone! I wanted to let you know that the Sewing Shop is open for business. Please stop by if you need your garments mended or if you need something new that you can't find in the shops. I know how hard it is to find things that fit properly there.

I'm also available to give sewing lessons should you wish to learn! It's a very useful skill to have, especially here where anything can happen.

[Private to Abigail, Daenerys, and Maglor]

I have something ready for you. Feel free to stop in anytime to pick it up!

Comments

[roseofthetyrells]

I suppose I got lucky. I never really had to mind Loras. But then, the two of us were destined for very different things. We spent time together when we could, though.

[she laughs] Really? Oh no! Knowing children, they likely got jelly on everything he didn't want jelly on.

[bythewaves]

More like custard. [ He shudders ]

Although they also had the dubious distinction of being the only one of us who managed to set fire to the garden, by accident.

[roseofthetyrells]

Custard? Milk and eggs! Ugh! [she makes a face]

Is that so? Do I even dare ask how that happened?

[bythewaves]

We were never able to get them to confess! But we think they must have been trying out one of the chemistry sets. That tended to be how most of the more... er... destructive accidents around the house happened.

[roseofthetyrells]

I think my family should be grateful that such things were kept firmly locked up in the maester's quarters. Otherwise, Loras and I would have gotten up to some mischief.

[bythewaves]

[ Maglor laughs ]

Oh, the dangerous stuff was kept in father's forge, I'm sure. But between Curufin and Father, there was always bits and pieces of things everywhere. The Ambarussa weren't the only family members to start a fire! Just the only ones to manage to do so in the garden. Most of the other accidents were where you expect them to be.

[roseofthetyrells]

[teasingly]

I wouldn't know where I'd expect them to be. I was a very well behaved child. Most of the time.

[bythewaves]

Oh, you know. The forges. The kitchen. [ Maglor twinkles at her ]

Places where bored young minds might find things that go boom. Ask Curufin, sometime!

[roseofthetyrells]

The kitchens! I'd imagine that the cooks were displeased.

Bored! But what of your lessons? And I shall.

[bythewaves]

Quite possibly. [ He grins ] Although soem days the cook was my father, and it was possibly his fault.

Lessons could involve anything, after all.

[roseofthetyrells]

So your father encouraged your mischief! I can't imagine my father doing such a thing.

Oh, such as add this to that and get an explosion?

[bythewaves]

He did. [ Maglor laughs ]

He could hardly say no, when he was himself prone to random explosions while experimenting!

[roseofthetyrells]

Really? [she laughs] I'm trying to picture my father exploding things and I just can't. He was too caught up in appearances.

[bythewaves]

Father was an experimenter and an inventor. He was always flitting from one thing to another. He was always the best and brightest of us.

[roseofthetyrells]

While all mine did was "lay siege to the buffet table" at Storm's End during Robert's Rebellion.

[she says wryly]

[bythewaves]

[ Maglor laughs ]

Oh, he would have enjoyed meeting the Hobbits then - there are none who value food so much as do hobbits

[roseofthetyrells]

[she laughs as well]

Except perhaps my father. Betwixt my father and the Hobbits, they'd eat everyone out of house and home and we'd be stuck with the scraps.

[bythewaves]

Oh, a good hobbit feast goes on until everyone is full. [ He laughs ]

They can cook to match their appetites, you see. I think your father would be right at home.

[roseofthetyrells]

Really? Do they like to sing? Father is mad about singing. He has quite a good voice, too.

[bythewaves]

Drinking songs, mostly. [ Maglor says wryly ] The majority of my tavern tunes are from them!

[roseofthetyrells]

[she laughs] Father tends to sing the more traditional songs sung by bards, but if you get some wine into him, he'll sing drinking songs until the dawn.

[bythewaves]

I predict he would probably get along very well with the hobbits then. [ Maglor laughs in return ]

Then again, tis very easy to get along with them, I find. They don't much like us Big People, but they're hospitable to their bones. A good folk.

[roseofthetyrells]

Yes. Yes, I think you're right. [her smile turns melancholy] I miss him. I miss Loras. I miss my grandmother. I know that grandmother, at least, is still alive, but what kind of life will it be, having lost all of us so horribly?

[bythewaves]

[ He makes a low noise of sympathy ]

That will be hard for her, I think. But she sounds to be a strong woman, from how you've described her. I hope she will be alright.

[roseofthetyrells]

It will be an agony. She'd had such hopes for all of us. Even father, despite everything.

I can't help hoping that she comes here. I know there would be danger, but she is a strong woman. She'd be able to withstand what this place would try to inflict upon her.