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[wrens]

prompt five | E N D I N G S dressing-room style. start your own thread. tag others. wash, rinse, repeat. open to all.

 

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[northerner]

[ and here robb had thought the wall a dull place. ]

Sounds like one of Old Nan's stories. The beginning of one, anyway.

[ and later would come glory in the form of some crushing victory, or just barely-evaded death. robb knew well how the stories all went. and it's easier to think of things like that, like a story where all ended neatly and the hero came home wreathed in honors.

even if robb knew very well how different the reality could be. ]

[allinblack]

[jon remembers those stories well, but he remembers the nasty ones too, that bran liked, where there weren't any heroes at all, only murderers and traitors and rat cooks and punishing, implacable justice come only once the suffering's through. he tries not to think about those stories.]

I saw giants, too, astride on their mammoths. A whole band of them. They're all huge and covered in hair, even the women.

[northerner]

Bran will be jealous.

[ there's wistfulness in robb's tone. ]

He always wished to see such things.

[allinblack]

He may yet.

[if the Wildlings take the Wall. or perhaps some of the giants might be made prisoner of the Watch, and Bran could come see them. they'd have to clear out a whole castle.]