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[writtendestiny]

[Poison spends a long while fidgeting with her phone, walking the borders of Carlisle's garden (but not going inside, not while he isn't there). Eventually, she sits down near one of the corners, cross-legged on a low, flat rock, and taps out a simple yet heavily weighted message.]

Do you believe in Fate?

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[stonebird]

Not anymore. I'm not sure I even believe in gods.

But how are we here? There are no easy answers.

[writtendestiny]

But you used to? What changed your mind?

[stonebird]

I felt they either stopped listening to my prayers or didn't exist in the first place.

[writtendestiny]

[She takes a minute to reply, because this has gone a little out of the topic she originally posed. Poison decides, though, that she isn't going to brush over it.]

I'm sorry. You must have been through a lot.

[stonebird]

I lost my father, my mother and my elder brother around the same time. I was betrothed to a monster and when that fell through, he married me to his uncle. I didn't think the gods would allow such tragedies if they existed.

[writtendestiny]

I don't really believe in any gods. But maybe yours aren't there to interfere in your life.

[stonebird]

Or they don't exist in the first place. The Seven were no aid to me, so I started speaking to the Old Gods instead.

[writtendestiny]

There are a lot of gods where you come from.

[stonebird]

Isn't that common for any world?

[writtendestiny]

Maybe it is. I don't know of any gods in my own world. Maybe we had them before the wars, but that was a long time ago.

[stonebird]

How long have the wars continued? I would think the gods would be even more sought when people are in a crisis.

[writtendestiny]

They're over now. They ended ages ago. Maybe people did try to turn to gods then. If they did, it didn't help them.

[stonebird]

I can understand losing faith.

But it is strange that you have no deities whatsoever. Do you rely on myths about heroes, then?

[writtendestiny]

Not really. Mankind doesn't have heroes anymore.

[stonebird]

You come from a sad world. (She thought Westeros was bad, but at least some people still adhered to a faith and had hope.)

[writtendestiny]

I think so too, sometimes. But there's a lot of good in it.

[stonebird]

It is my opinion that you seem very kind. Perhaps you are part of the good that is in your world.

[writtendestiny]

[Oh. Well, Poison isn't sure what to do with that. She's never been called 'kind' before, except by Peppercorn. There are a lot of words most people would choose first.]

Thank you.

I'm honest about the sort of person I am, and I expect the same from others.

[stonebird]

(Honesty is kind. Sansa learned that lesson the hard way in King's Landing and even if the honesty hurts, so be it. But Poison hasn't hurt her in the least.)

You can hold me to those standards.

[writtendestiny]

I hold everyone to those standards whether they like it or not. It doesn't always win friends.

[stonebird]

I respect honesty; it's dangerous to live a lie or tell lies. You can expect the same belief from all the Starks. That is how we were raised.

[writtendestiny]

I'll keep that in mind.
You have family here?

[stonebird]

A brother, but he prefers to go by the surname Snow instead.

[writtendestiny]

Why is that?

[stonebird]

Snow is the name bastards use in the North. I assumed he was the product of my father's infidelity as a child. I'm not sure anymore.