hadriel | ❅ Fifteen (Video)

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❅ Fifteen (Video)

(Her eyes are red rimmed and she looks like she has been forgoing sleep. There is a bunch of bound paper, neatly tied with pieces of leather, before her and she is using a quill to write. Yet the tip on the writing utensil has broken and so she is having to make another, sharpening it with a small knife.)

If it isn't asking for too much, will you please tell me your best memories? You needn't go into detail; you can even change some details if you wish. All I want to hear are good stories; stories that end with happiness.

(Some warmth to drive out the chill of Winter and loss.)

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[Margaery's in the Sewing Shop and she doesn't look like her usual bright and charming self. in fact, it looks like she's been crying fairly recently as her eyes are red-rimmed and her nose is pink and the garment in her lap has a needle with thread hanging off of it, but she shows no signs of actually having worked on it for a while]

My. . . best memories? A story which ends in happiness? I suppose if I overlook everything which happened after, my lessons with my grandmother were happy memories.

(So they are in the same state. Poor Margaery. Sansa shifts to rise, ready to go to her no matter how abysmal the weather.)

Do not let the lions taint your memories of her. That's what they do, my lady. It's the only way they acquire importance.

[she could likely use company. ever since Maglor and Curufin's departures, she's been sick at heart, sequestering herself in her room, only emerging to pick at food and hardly eat a bite]

I know you are right. I simply worry after her so, with all of us gone and nothing left to her but revenge.

(Yes, she can expect a visit later in the day. Sansa is sick at heart too and it's best to move and keep company.)

Having watched her, I think she will choose how she leaves the world. That is all the Lannisters know to do; to kill and pretend their enemies aren't growing exponentially around them.

[this day is the first day she's ventured outside the house since she found out that Maglor was gone. she thought perhaps if she threw herself back into work, she'd be distracted. instead, she's distracted by all the times he visited her here]

I hope so. And I cannot help but hope that she finds her way here. This place may have its drawbacks, but she'd be safer.

And it will be the Lannisters' downfall, for someday they will need allies and there will be none to be found.

(Maglor has that effect. Whenever he leaves a space, it is almost like a piece of his soul remains behind. Sansa has visited his bedroom, plucked at his harp and tried to surround herself with the good memories he had given her so selflessly.)

I would love to see her again. I never thanked you or her for allowing me to speak the truth. You are the first I told of Joffrey's nature; you allowed that dam to break and I felt better afterwards.

[she hasn't done anything like that. mostly, she's kept to her room and cried, refusing to answer any knocks on her door. she feels as though she's been torn up inside]

As would I. Her presence would be a. . . balm after recent events. And there is no need to thank us. We needed the information. [a pause] Did I ever tell you it was grandmother who poisoned Joffrey?

I thought it might have been. (Frankly, she isn't upset that they included her unwittingly.) She was protecting you and it gave me a chance to escape. I'm not angry.

[a small, shaky smile curves her lips] I'm glad to hear it. We hadn't meant for you to be blamed, only Tyrion, but Cersei being Cersei. . . well, I suppose you don't need any further explanation than that.

Edited 2019-01-01 23:06 (UTC)

They blamed me for everything that went wrong. (What was one more accusation?) There will be a battle and I imagine I will see Cersei again, but I don't fear her anymore.

[a bit more emotion seeps into her voice] I know they did. And I'm sorry for that. We couldn't draw Cersei's attention away from you, not when her mind was already made up.

She has more than one reason for hating me. Once her intent is decided, there is no deterring her.

(Sansa fears Cersei, yet it's not the same crippling fear she once felt. There is also anger and a lot of it. If their paths cross, she will do her best to keep her head and see the Queen pay for all of her crimes.)

I know. Believe me, I know. She was so determined to get me out of the way, she murdered at least two hundred other people to do it.

[Margaery has never feared Cersei. in fact, the emotion the other woman usually causes is anger. should Cersei show her face in Hadriel, Margaery fully intends to kill her. granted, it won't last, but it would be cathartic]

She has no appreciation of life or empathy. Those are poor qualities for a leader. I know I should feel badly for her - she has lost her children - but after all she has done, I can't imagine her deserving anything less.

(How many children have died at her hands? There is a cycle to everything.)

She has and how many of those losses were her own fault? Joffrey, because she couldn't be bothered to rein him in as a little boy so my grandmother saw no other option? Tommen, who took his own life after realizing I was dead? Only Myrcella's death was not directly as a result of her own actions, but it was done out of revenge for the actions of her father.

[too many people's children have suffered and died to shore up House Lannister]

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