ᴏɴᴇ ʟɪғᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴏɴᴇ ᴅʀᴇᴀᴍ ᴏɴ ʀᴇᴘᴇᴀᴛ

[persequor]

ᴡʜᴏ: Arya and you.
ᴡʜᴀᴛ: A day in the life.
ᴡʜᴇɴ: Today.
ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ: Options A-E open to all. Just let me know where we're at.


[ A // ɢᴀʀᴅᴇɴs ]
[ A couple of hours after daybreak finds Arya still in the gardens. While Nymeria naps close by, she attempts to weave flowers into a crown. The end result is laughable. Growling in frustration, she rips it apart. Around her lie the bruised and wilting victims of previous attempts. ]


[ B // ᴍᴜsɪᴄ ʀᴏᴏᴍ ]
[ From the open door of the music room comes the sound of drumming. There is no rhythm nor any sense of a song. A laugh sometimes accompanies it. Inside the room, Arya beats on a drum in front of Nymeria. The direwolf seems more interested in the drumsticks Arya has in her hands than the actual instrument. Occasionally, she lunges at the sticks and Arya laughs and moves back. Nymeria yelps. ]


[ C // ʀᴏᴏғ ]
[ Arya lies on her stomach, head and shoulders jutting out over the edge. She kicks her feet idly back and forth as she holds her arm straight out. Her hand opens and something falls. She counts under her breath before stopping with a frown. ]

I need something bigger. Nymeria, the stick.

[ Nymeria ignores Arya; the direwolf continues gnawing happily on her drumstick. ]


[ D // ᴘɪᴇ sʜᴏᴘ ]
[ Having mopped the floor, wiped down the tables and counter and rearranged the chairs—twice—Arya finally accepts she is done with her work. She had not thought she would enjoy it so. Work was a welcome reprieve. When she had something to do, she had less time to think. In Paradisa, there was nothing but time to think. She had even begun to miss her lessons.

With the store empty for the moment, Arya steals a day-old pie from the kitchen. She sits at a table against the windows to eat. Fork to her lips, she entertains herself watching the people walking by. ]


[ E // ɢʀᴏᴜɴᴅs ]
[ Lying on the grass near the duck pond, the child is unobtrusive and quiet for once. The direwolf usually with her is nowhere to be seen yet they are not separated. Arya almost seems to be sleeping if not for the slit of grey marking open eyes. Try not to step on her. ]


[ F // ᴅᴀᴇɴᴇʀʏs ]
Daenerys!

[ Pushing everything out of mind, Arya smiles as she calls out. Behind her, Nymeria drags a deer carcass across the ground. ]

Viserion! Drogon! Rhaegal! Look what we've brought you!

Comments

[not_mafia]

[Tsuna stiffens a little at the yawn, looking hesitantly at the wolf. Man, he's never going to get used to being around her.]

How did you get her, anyway?

[persequor]

My brothers found the litter. The mother had been felled by a stag's antler. It was still in her throat when they found her. Father let my brothers bring the pups home. Six pups for the six of us.

[not_mafia]

[He just let them bring home a bunch of wild animals???]

Oh, I-I see. That's pretty lucky. That there was one for each of you, I mean.

[persequor]

The direwolf is the sigil of House Stark. We were meant to have them.

[not_mafia]

You mean like fate?

[persequor]

I guess? Regardless, they're ours. Four males and two females for Father's four sons and two daughters. I named her Nymeria after the warrior-queen of the Rhoynar. My sister named hers Lady, [ Arya's expression shows her opinion of that particular choice of name ], Robb had Grey Wind, Jon has Ghost and Rickon named his Shaggydog. We tried to tell him he wasn't really a shaggy dog, but the name stuck. I don't know what Bran named his if he did.

[not_mafia]

That's a lot of siblings... I don't have any of my own.

[persequor]

No? Can't your mother bear more children?

[not_mafia]

E-eh?! She--

Th-that doesn't have anything to do with it!

[persequor]

Does she not have a husband?

[not_mafia]

No! I mean-- [Sdlkfj] Yes, my dad and her are married. They just don't want any more kids!

[persequor]

Why?

[not_mafia]

Well, I guess they felt that one was enough.

[persequor]

Does everyone think the same?

[not_mafia]

Everyone? You mean, other people from my world?

[persequor]

Yes.

[not_mafia]

Um... I think so. A lot of my friends don't have siblings that I know of, and then the rest only have one sibling, I think.

[persequor]

Your world is queer.

[not_mafia]

Why? Do people have a lot of kids where you're from?

[persequor]

Unless they cannot or one parent dies.

[not_mafia]

Huh...

What else is your world like?

[persequor]

In what?

[not_mafia]

Well, I don't know. I guess I'm just curious about it.

[persequor]

Yes, but about what?

[not_mafia]

Um... I don't know. What is it like, where you're from? You're royalty, so do you live in a big castle or something?