Sansa Stark (
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you've always loved the strange birds
Who| Sansa and OPEN
What| Sansa arrives in the Capitol
Where| Around the Tribute Center and the Capitol
When| ...Now?
Warnings/Notes| TBC
She feels lost and unmoored, but that's nothing new. Since her father's death, through all the long protracted nightmare of King's Landing, she's felt that way, out of her depth and swept up in things beyond her control. In that sense, it hardly comes as a surprise for Ser Dontos' boat to become a dream, and to wake up somewhere else entirely.
It's the place itself that shocks her, therefore, at least as much as the fact that she's here. She's never seen or even dreamed of anything like this land, all glass and steel and blinding white, even the guards dressed in something glossy and clean and hard that certainly isn't steel armour. She lets herself be guided without argument, meek and mild as any girl could ever be, and feels oddly bereft when they leave her in her new room without even that dubious company.
When it comes down to it, though, she doesn't stay in the room long - but still long enough to wonder at a few of the strange objects scattered around it: the black mirror on the wall that barely reflects, the lights in the ceiling that have no clear flame. Then, feeling the strangeness of it all well up inside her, she knows she ought to get moving. She has to find out where she is, for one thing, and what the allegiances are of its lords. The Lannisters will be looking for her, she thinks, and if she ends up back in King's Landing, what she endured before will seem like tender mercy.
For the rest of the day, Sansa can be found wandering - first out into District 6's common area, then around the rest of the strange building, and at last out into the streets themselves. Her wonder is written on her face, along with a growing unease; she is so caught up in staring up at the sweeping buildings and foreign towers and strange lights that she may well bump into several people, her ladylike grace and manners momentarily forgotten.
If she does drag her eyes away from the city long enough to focus on its people, she will approach anyone who looks as though they might be friendly, bobbing a curtsey and asking politely if she might have a word.
What| Sansa arrives in the Capitol
Where| Around the Tribute Center and the Capitol
When| ...Now?
Warnings/Notes| TBC
She feels lost and unmoored, but that's nothing new. Since her father's death, through all the long protracted nightmare of King's Landing, she's felt that way, out of her depth and swept up in things beyond her control. In that sense, it hardly comes as a surprise for Ser Dontos' boat to become a dream, and to wake up somewhere else entirely.
It's the place itself that shocks her, therefore, at least as much as the fact that she's here. She's never seen or even dreamed of anything like this land, all glass and steel and blinding white, even the guards dressed in something glossy and clean and hard that certainly isn't steel armour. She lets herself be guided without argument, meek and mild as any girl could ever be, and feels oddly bereft when they leave her in her new room without even that dubious company.
When it comes down to it, though, she doesn't stay in the room long - but still long enough to wonder at a few of the strange objects scattered around it: the black mirror on the wall that barely reflects, the lights in the ceiling that have no clear flame. Then, feeling the strangeness of it all well up inside her, she knows she ought to get moving. She has to find out where she is, for one thing, and what the allegiances are of its lords. The Lannisters will be looking for her, she thinks, and if she ends up back in King's Landing, what she endured before will seem like tender mercy.
For the rest of the day, Sansa can be found wandering - first out into District 6's common area, then around the rest of the strange building, and at last out into the streets themselves. Her wonder is written on her face, along with a growing unease; she is so caught up in staring up at the sweeping buildings and foreign towers and strange lights that she may well bump into several people, her ladylike grace and manners momentarily forgotten.
If she does drag her eyes away from the city long enough to focus on its people, she will approach anyone who looks as though they might be friendly, bobbing a curtsey and asking politely if she might have a word.
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He's got a few open folders, a tablet and a very tall cup of coffee to keep himself from collapsing into a exhaustion when he's bumped into by someone. "Oomph! Uh, sorry about that!" he immediately apologizes to the stranger, thankful nothing spilled other than some coffee on his fingers. "Are you okay?"
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Biting her lip, she looks up under her lashes at the older man. He doesn't look like a ser, she decides after a moment. He looks more common, less proud, more like one of the smallfolk than the lords and ladies she's grown used to. Still, he seems kind enough, and manners can't hurt.
"You aren't hurt, are you?" What he spilled looked hot, and she's worried for him.
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"You look lost, Miss, are you looking for someone?" With such grace and manners, he has to ask instead of assuming she's a Tribute. He was caught offguard by the likes of Temple Stevens, best assume Capitolite until further notice. "The directory's near the elevator if you're looking for someone."
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And she bobs a curtsey, tucking her hair back behind her ear and trying to think whether she should give her real name. "You can call me Jeyne," she decides after a moment, plucking her childhood friend's name out of the air. It's a good, common sort of name, and one unassociated with treachery and regicide. And, she tells herself, it isn't technically a lie. She didn't say it was actually her name, just that it was one he could use. "And I would love some tea, sir, if you don't mind."
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Wait, she said 6, right? He immediately straightened up, and smiled as he would a guest at Freddy's, welcoming and set, "Well, I'm Phillip Gray, a-and I'm one of the Mentors here in, uh, District 6. I'm sorry if I-" he sees the paperwork and flinches, her arrival report in there, somewhere, "I-I'm not this messy believe me but we've had an incident with my senior mentor, Mr. Lockhearst. I'm guessing the people that brought you here gave you some sort of idea of what you'll be doing. So, tell me a bit about yourself?"
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"There's not much of interest to tell," she hedged, with a little laugh, the kind that said without words I'm only a silly little girl, there's no reason to look too deep. "I do like sweet things, though. Thank you, Phillip. May I call you Phillip?" It seems like the proper mode of address, when she doesn't know his station. "I'm afraid I must seem very stupid, but I don't know what you mean by a Mentor. Would you mind...?"
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"Yeah, sure." There's a kind understanding in her tone, wasn't too long ago that she was fresh out of the Training Center basement. She pauses as a gaggle of young girls and boys in a big group start to approach in the hustle and bustle of the street. So steps closer to Sansa's side to place a light hand on the back of her shoulder to guide her closer to the Art Museum and out of the way of "traffic".
"You just got here, huh?"
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"Where am I?" she asks aloud after a moment, when she's got herself under control enough, when her heart feels less like it might burst from fear and relief. "Who is the lord of this place?"
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Karkat's got himself sat in a chair when it happens, a notepad propped on one arm and an open book in hand, some paperback thing. He's downright studious, jotting down notes here and there, sometimes a whole sentence - or he was, until just now.
His eyes fix on her as she comes into view. "Hey. Who are you?"
Not rude, but not polite, curious more than anything. There is a couple embracing dramatically on his book cover.
(His job is very serious, you see.)
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He's grey. Not grey like the mummers she's seen once or twice in Winterfell, who paint their faces all kinds of colours, not even grey like a dead man, but really, truly grey, like stone or ash. The closest thing she's seen to it is the poor unfortunate greyscale victims who once or twice appeared in the periphery of her experience, before dying or being shipped away for the safety of the people around them. But they have a few grey patches, cracked and stone-like. This? This is like nothing she's ever seen or heard of, not even in the stories Old Nan used to tell them.
Without realising it, she's taken a half-step back, pressing against the doorframe in instinctive fear and disgust. She wants to ask what's wrong with him, if it's greyscale or something worse, if she's somehow been spirited away to some kind of sept for the afflicted. But that seems rude, not to mention hurtful and potentially dangerous (who knows who he might be, or what trouble his offence might cause for her?) so, with an effort, she swallows it down and peels herself away from the doorframe, trying to look as though she is completely calm and comfortable with his presence.
"I, uh," she says, and clears her throat, biting down on the inside of her cheek. She doesn't want to give her real name, not until she knows why she's here. She doesn't really want to lie either, though. Although she's doing a very good job of keeping her expression steady, her cheeks are pink. "I only just arrived. I'm afraid I don't really know where I am."
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"Panem," he says first. "Namely the Capitol, this deliberately decadent and sprawling center of it all, in the political and social sense more than the geographical. But before I get into the meat of that--" Because he intends to, with how important it is--
He points to himself. "I'm a troll. I don't know what your world has that may or may not look like me, but I'm not a qunari, an orc, or whatever version of troll you might know, because my world is wholly and entirely separate from any you've known. Yes, the horns are real, so are the teeth, so is the skin. If you know what aliens are, yes, I am one of relative to you. Got it?"
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That, at least, is truthful. The last thing she wants to do in this strange new place is get off on the wrong foot with the people around her. If King's Landing taught her anything, it's how important it is to give the right impression.
"I'm afraid I've never heard of Panem," she adds, after a moment. "Is it across the Narrow Sea? Geography never was my best lesson..."
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Talk of geography, though, is highly telling. He puts her down to low tech, one of those weird other worlds where they haven't learned much yet or are comparatively back in time or however it works among the many and countless humans.
"It's not across the Narrow Sea, and I don't even know what that is," he explains. "Do you know what a planet is? It's completely separate from yours and whatever was there. They'll stick you in the youth program with the rest of us under-18s soon enough and they'll fill you in on shit then." As much as they ever tell anyone about it, that is. Five hundred year old society, his ass.
"I'm going to say this once: how exactly they bring us here isn't something I know, but when or if they send you back is up to them, and they don't particularly take complaints when they're housing you here of their own will." And here he gives her a look, a bit sharp but definitely serious, and he hopes she can read the implications. It's not safe to speak out, but he can't put it any clearer than he has.
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She covers her mouth with one hand for a moment, then takes a hesitant step forward, and another. "...May I sit?" she asks, smoothing her clothes, and bites her lip. "This is... it's a lot to take in. You mean we really aren't in the same world?" How does that work? She'd ask, but she doesn't want to seem too inquisitive, and besides, she has a nasty feeling she wouldn't understand the answer.
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With another motion he indicates the chairs. "Yeah, yeah, go ahead. Seriously, there is no need to stand on ceremony with me." His hands go to his things, finally shutting and setting aside his book along with his notepad and pen. "And that's exactly what I mean. Just be glad you're getting to see the Capitol first. I got a Mini-Arena first thing, and if not for one of my asshole friends knocking me out of my stupor I would have been dead in five minutes."
It's not the most graceful of introductions, but if there's one thing she's going to have to learn, it's how the arenas permeate even life between them. That aside, he doesn't know whether she's heard that much yet. That she's in another world might be less important to the Capitolites than the why.
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Nothing good, she's sure, not if it would have killed him. She's thinking of the fighting pits she's heard are run across the Narrow Sea, of the melée combats at jousts, even of dog-fighting and bear-baiting pits. That makes a kind of sense. What doesn't make sense is what it has to do with her. Surely she can't be expected to fight? Not a thirteen-year-old noble lady who's never so much as held a sword?
If that's what he means, she thinks a little hysterically, they chose the wrong sister. And she has to bite down on a bubble of laughter, fighting to keep her face straight in case he gets the wrong idea.
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realizes like 5 minutes later I didn't hit send
realises it's twenty past two and i should be in bed oops
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he got caught in the elevator with Roland once
i think i remember that!
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Which is why she always keeps on eye on the revolving door of fresh Tributes that the Capitol brings in, partially so she knows who her Tributes are up against, but also so she can be aware if they bring in someone one of them may know. So seeing the surname Stark pop up was a shock. Either this girl's somehow related to Tony (which, considering the events that occurred in the past week, she doubted), or she's related to Arya.
Clara isn't sure which is worse.
She's perched in the lobby, ready to start talking up any potential sponsors who may pop by the Training Center so that she can grab them before any of the other Mentors can when she sees the girl from the file. Holding onto her tablet, she crosses the room, making sure not to sneak up on her. "Hi," she says warmly as she steps into her path, "you're one of the new Tributes, right?"
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"My name's Clara, by the way. I'm one of the Mentors for District 10." And most of that probably means nothing to the girl, but it's the best way she can introduce herself in the moment.
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She gives her an apologetic look. "I'm sorry, I know this is a lot, but you shouldn't be forced to be blindsided when they put you in for the first time."
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"Brought back?" she manages, and her voice is barely a whisper. "How can they be brought back?" There are stories of people being brought back, but they come from Lys and Mereen along with the stories of dragons and dog-headed men and people who can change their faces. They aren't real.
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"The Gamemakers have their ways, I guess." The answer's vague, but it's the best she can give without worrying that she's going to make Sansa distrust her because she can't give the answer she needs.
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