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

[bythewaves]

Not at all. [ He agrees with a laugh ]

Their love for each other was very great, but they were both very stubborn, wilful personalities with fearsome tempers. Their arguments would shake the rafters, at times! Their courtship, to hear tell, was one of sparks and storms, equally. I think everyone was very happy when they were wed - even though they were terribly young to do so.

[roseofthetyrells]

I wish I could meet them. They both sound as though they'd have many tales to tell of one another, all of them entertaining. But what is young by Elven standards?

[bythewaves]

Mother would have loved you. [ Maglor smiles wistfully ] Father... is harder to predict. I think he would have appreciated your spirit, though.

As to that - they were still under their majority - not quite a hundred yet! But they did not wish to wait any longer.

[roseofthetyrells]

[she smiles wistfully as well] I'm sure I would have loved them, too. After all, they're your parents.

It still amazes me how long your lifespans are! I can't imagine all that you get to see within the course of a lifetime. After all, I'll be lucky to make it to eighty and that sounds ancient.

[bythewaves]

Well. [ Maglor says dryly ]

I have it on good opinion that although it was very hard to hate Nerdanel, Feanor was another matter entirely. My father was always divisive.

[ He smiles wistfully at her ]

No more than it amazes us that yours are so short! Men blaze like a falling star, your lives like a blink in the scheme of time, and yet you do blaze, leaving impacts far beyond yourselves, and accomplishing things unguessed at.

[roseofthetyrells]

[she smiles wryly]

Sounds like my grandmother. One either loved or hated Olenna Tyrell. There was no one lukewarm on the subject.

[she smiles shyly back]

I would want it to be said that I blazed. I would leave behind an impact on those who knew me.

[bythewaves]

Fëanáro Curufinwë was the Crown Prince of our people, a genius unmatched then, or now. He was a fire that drew all to him, but he wasn't always - or even often! - particularly nice. [ His son says in memory ]

He was easy to love, but hard to like. He was charismatic and passionate and driven - where he loved, he loved with all of himself, but his hate was equally all consuming, and it killed him, in the end.

[ It killed us all, he doesn't say ]

We were his sons, the jewels in his crown, but when his father died, we became his weapons to throw against his enemy.

[ He squeezes her hand ]

You do.

[roseofthetyrells]

[Atem's words warning Margaery about being consumed by her hatred for Cersei come to mind and she bites her lower lip before replying]

Hatred--can be difficult to overcome, it's true. It can consume all in its path if one isn't careful.

I know something about being a weapon wielded by her family. My beauty, my grace, and my charm were all honed for one purpose and one purpose alone. To be queen, no matter what--or who--stood in my way.

[she squeezes back]

Thank you.

[bythewaves]

I am glad you are free.

[ He says softly ]

[roseofthetyrells]

Now? So am I. Back in King's Landing, I couldn't let go of my ambitions so easily.

[bythewaves]

You were younger then. [ he murmurs ]

Death changes a person, I suppose.

[roseofthetyrells]

Younger and far more ambitious. [she says ruefully]

It does. I feel as though I have far more. . . perspective on things than I did before I died.

[bythewaves]

Nothing wrong with that, provided you learn - and you have done so, although I could wish your lesson had not been so harsh.

[roseofthetyrells]

So do I. . . My grandmother offered me the chance to return to Highgarden after I was released by the High Sparrow, but I refused. I thought I could still turn the situation to my advantage.

[bythewaves]

You could not have known.

[ Maglor points out ]

You made the best choices that you could see at the time.

[roseofthetyrells]

I suppose not. Cersei proved herself even more evil than I could have imagined until it was too late to stop her.

[she shakes her head]

I valued my crown over my safety.

[bythewaves]

You did not know your safety was in question! Oh, you could have guessed, I suppose - but one can never truly know.

[roseofthetyrells]

No, I suppose not. That was my failure. My inability to guess how far Cersei would go to retain power.

[bythewaves]

A lesson learnt - I only wish it had not ended as it did! But we cannot predict the actions of others, I fear. Not with any accuracy.