( ❛ & ??? )

The girl approached, and Claire could see as she moved about the snow she was no more than her late teens at most, and the way she marched upon virgin snow proved how used to it she was, it was neither a challenge nor a thought to her, this was the world she was used to and Claire didn’t need ask, for why else would one walk with fur adorned shoulders in this blithering cold?

At the mention of her attire, Claire found she was hugging herself, to stop herself shaking from the chill that ached her bones. A linen dress, thin and light offered no warmth in Winter, especially since here Winter seemed to grace the land. How foolish she must seem out in a Summer dress, as though she wanted death to take her. However, as Claire remembered, when she had left Frank earlier, there had been no sight of snow, no mention of it. In fact there hadn’t even been rain. It had been quite a warm day for October, and she could guess the temperature would have to plummet a great deal to have snow as thick as this, and it would have to have fallen for hours to lay so heavily on the terrain. Claire could not recall a snow shower, or even remarking the chill on her way to the Standing Stones, and now the realisation that they had whirled her to a different time, a different place, seemed all the more real.

         “I- I wasn’t expecting snow.”

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Was all Claire could muster, feeling stupid for even speaking. It would seem unrealistic to the girl across from her, that Claire would leave wherever she came from and come about here, a place obviously so accustomed to snow, to stroll about in it, in a light Summer dress that reached her calves at most.

Bandits though. Heavens, she must be farther out than she thought, if bandits even came into question.

“Sorry, d’you know, odd as this sounds, what this place is called?
I’d really rather be on my way home, I expect I’ll be missed,
and I wouldn’t like to trouble you further.”

Because the idea that she was far away from the village from hence she’d came did propose a ridiculous notion, so she dismissed it for now.

“I must be quite high upon the mountains of Inverness, I imagine to find myself in snow such as this.”

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A laugh left her lips, better to make light of the situation she figured that wallow in it. Hopefully this girl would be able to direct her back to the Village, or know of it and soon she’d be back with Frank, and she could imagine he’d rightly laugh when she confirmed her tale to him. However, for now Claire couldn’t imagine why anyone would choose to live in perpetual snow, but then the idea of being so high in the mountain struck her, for wouldn’t there be wind, or a breeze at least?

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     & she wants to laugh, give voice to flurry within adolescent breast at what was uttered for it is so very obvious & she does ;; soft sound reverberating off snow & foliage as it slips forth from curvature of lips colored carmine with cold temperaments & it stops soon enough, lasting no more than but a pair of beats of her heart against iron cage of ribs & ;; as obvious her words are, they are also so very odd for all know the climate of the north & even embroiled within spring as they are, snow can still be seen as evidenced by blanket of white surrounding yet it is spring snow that shant last long ‘fore the melt comes & things are once more as green as her lands could possibly get. 

          ❝ You truly do not know where you are? ❞

     confusion laces tonality still for did not all know of this location? & if they truly had gotten lost would not her own appearance give way to understanding? ladies are not afforded as much free reign as male counterparts whether they are northern or southron & woman-child be no exception ;; places she may be seen are few are far between, limited to area about her home &, should she been taken along, holdings of her fathers men or kingslanding although the former is much more plausible than the latter these days.

     & perhaps she aught be weary, cautious of this under dressed stranger who knows not of what all others do yet the lady lyanna has never been one to be guarded against the strange for such is a show of weakness & she is not weak, this girl of iron & frost & the dire of which adorns the flag of her kin & she shant become so now but if she cannot be weary she shall be curious of this unknown woman & though she does not interact with them often, within her mind lies face & name of all noble with blood as blue as her own flowing through privileged veins yet there is no sense of familiarity within set of eyes, curve of jaw & perhaps this is no lady but a commoner, a thought that ties with state of dress.

     & should there be hesitation it is ever brief ;; the silence of a child attempting to place another within land declared their own, a breech within sandbox that is now to be placed as either friend or foe in the wake of it all but soon enough she allows utterance to fall forth, each word accompanied by pale evidence of warm breath meeting chilled air.

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                     ❝ You are in WINTERFELL, or close to it, rather. If you look, you shall see it behind me, 'pon the hill. You shant miss it, t'is the only structure for quite a while in any direction. T'is the seat of the North, surely you know it for everyone within the kingdom does just as they know who holds it … but you do notOtherwise you would have realized as soon as you saw my face, the colors I wear … How is it that you do not know where you are? ❞

     grey 'pon grey with shades of white threaded throughout, stark colors nestling so dear after so long within the bright shades of southron fabric & even if she should wear dresses of other colors, they, too, shall be on the grey side of things ( grey-blue, grey-green ;; so dreary in retrospect but fitting of her family, of shared features of dark hair & grey eyes )

                        ❝ I must confess I know not of this Inverness of which you speak … I believed myself to know all towns within my fathers lands but perhaps you are not of the North? If you are not, how is it that you have found yourself here with no luggage, no accompaniment … not even a cart or a horse? ❞

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EVERY GIRL

ind. priv. sel. canon divergent book based lyanna stark from asoiaf established: 9.13 && rebooted 1.14.
written by JAILIN
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PACING RHYTHMS

i am not your apocalypse, i am not your salvation, my body is a kingdom meant only for a queen. i will take your crown, i will shape your stars, my life might not be my own but yours ?? i will make it so !! immortality is an escape, absolution from revolution, blessed by dying breaths of kings who lived too long. you called me an angel, blessed me with candle-bright lies. i will make angels fall, i will burn your kingdom down. immortality belongs to the dead, so bury me with my crown.

IN HER VEINS !!

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