( CLOSED ) and an open cage

[unprays]

Who: sansa stark (unprays) & a buncha people
What: holiday ball & january plot things
When: december & january
Where: olympia, the south outpost, somewhere around wyver
Warning(s): your standard game of thrones warnings apply, just in case

( individual starters in comments!! feel free to either write up a starter for us, leave a blank comment and wait for me to write us something, or poke me @ celen for more specific plottings!

just as a heads-up, i'll be in japan from dec 21 to jan 5, so tags will be very slow going until i'm back! please bear with me in the meantime ♥ )

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MATT ❄ backdated to the gala

[unprays]

[ she remembers him, still — she hasn't seen him for a long while, but she never forgets someone who has been kind to her... not anymore. and she is alone, now; she has seen Jon in the gala, seen others she knows and spoken to a few of them, but right now, he is the only familiar face around her... and perhaps it is silly, to feel uncomfortable standing there alone, but a little caution never hurt anybody.

she approaches him with a small smile. ]

It is good to see you again, ser. [ it crosses her mind that he might not remember her: that his act of kindness may have been more memorable to her than helping a girl would have been to him. ]

[ghettobatman]

[He can hear her breathing and takes in her scent --- Matt stop being creepy -- long before she approaches him, and he considers making his way over to say hello. He's nursing a glass of whiskey when she approaches -- naturally, he remembers her -- if anything, he's glad she's still awake. That she's safe.]

[He smiles when she speaks to him, turning to face him]

Sansa? Is that you?

It's good to see you too -- in a manner of speaking. [Blind jokes....]

[unprays]

Yes, it is.

[ she sounds delighted that he remembers, though his addition to the greeting makes her pause, then giggle when she realizes the joke... and then press her hand against her mouth to not be impolite. ]

I hope you're enjoying the gala so far.

[ghettobatman]

[Sansa, that is cute, but also: he made the joke himself, she can laugh! It's an ice breaker]

I am, yes. It's a welcome break from plagues and dragons and all that. [sure, there's some competitiveness, but it's (mostly) in a friendly fashion and if all goes well, tensions and resentfulness between Wyver and Olympia will settle a little] Are you?

[unprays]

You don't like the dragons?

[ she has to ask... mostly because of Jon, really, but still. though when he asks what she thinks of the gala, she wonders how honest she should be. she doesn't believe it will do much to make the relations better between the two lands — on the contrary, she feels it is too much, too grand. trying to seem friendly when in truth it is the opposite.

but she responds with, ] It is very beautiful. I haven't seen anything like this, before. [ King's Landing came close, but not quite. this was almost as if King's Landing and the Red Keep had been transported to the North. ]

[ghettobatman]

Not when they're chasing me, no. [Or when people have to use their body to lure them back...... that was awkward. Matt's not naive, though, he knows that in the end, a party won't do much to fix the relationships between the two factions when they're so set on war, but as far he's concerned, it's a step in the right direction]

Why don't you describe it to me? I'll experience it through your eyes.

[unprays]

I doubt many would, in a situation like that.

[ she'd seen it, too — she hadn't agreed to do it, of course, but the whole deal had seemed rather... silly. ]

It is... like winter, but not cold and unforgiving, but gentle and beautiful. Crystal that sparkle in white and blue, tables so full of food I fear they may break soon.