[ when it is clear there is nothing more to gain from listening to the women talk, Sansa gets up... and approaches them. leaving might arouse their suspicions — she knows she would be suspicious of anyone who stayed only to listen to what is considered important, politically or otherwise, and then left. a beggar like her might be expected to stay sitting there all night. ]
Kind ladies, do you not have a coin to spare? Just one coin, so poor Alayne could get some bread for her sick sister?
[ the women glance at her once and then shout at her to be on her way and stop bothering them — and it is just as well. she only wanted a reason to leave.
once she rounds the corner back to where Ardyn is waiting, she straightens her shoulders, fighting back a shudder from the chill she caught when sitting there. ]
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[ when it is clear there is nothing more to gain from listening to the women talk, Sansa gets up... and approaches them. leaving might arouse their suspicions — she knows she would be suspicious of anyone who stayed only to listen to what is considered important, politically or otherwise, and then left. a beggar like her might be expected to stay sitting there all night. ]
Kind ladies, do you not have a coin to spare? Just one coin, so poor Alayne could get some bread for her sick sister?
[ the women glance at her once and then shout at her to be on her way and stop bothering them — and it is just as well. she only wanted a reason to leave.
once she rounds the corner back to where Ardyn is waiting, she straightens her shoulders, fighting back a shudder from the chill she caught when sitting there. ]