[Remus Lupin has spoken of such magics, of such mistakes and accidents--and he has always urged Bran to caution, even as Alayne urges him now. Caution and care. Once Bran had dreamed of being a knight and doing great things, but such dreams had ended with his fall. He could only run and move in another's skin now, but he always had his will and courage and the strength that had been given to him at his birth--or was it more than just the strength of his name? Ice in his blood, winter beneath his skin--a man of the north, even if he was only a child. A man could do as he pleased, but a child--
A Stark was always strong. Alayne, and Sansa beneath her skin--there was a strength to her, but it was harder and forged in a different fire. There were things that she had faced, secrets that she does not tell but that lurk behind her eyes--and so Bran is quiet as she makes her entreatment. There are thousand things warring in his chest and in his mind, and his heart is beating very hard, and he wants then to ask Alayne what she means, and will she tell him these secrets, so he can know--so she does not bear them alone.
But he doesn't ask. Not yet. Instead, he offers, quietly:]
I want to help. I want to help those on this ship, and-- and the creatures, too. Whatever is wrong with them.
[If he could, he would reach for her hand. They are together again, the Starks. They must stay together.]
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A Stark was always strong. Alayne, and Sansa beneath her skin--there was a strength to her, but it was harder and forged in a different fire. There were things that she had faced, secrets that she does not tell but that lurk behind her eyes--and so Bran is quiet as she makes her entreatment. There are thousand things warring in his chest and in his mind, and his heart is beating very hard, and he wants then to ask Alayne what she means, and will she tell him these secrets, so he can know--so she does not bear them alone.
But he doesn't ask. Not yet. Instead, he offers, quietly:]
I want to help. I want to help those on this ship, and-- and the creatures, too. Whatever is wrong with them.
[If he could, he would reach for her hand. They are together again, the Starks. They must stay together.]
I only want to help.