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]

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.