ataraxion | i ♚ accidental text/voice

[ Since his arrival, King Stannis Baratheon has been familiarizing him with the halls of the Tranquility and the queer technology that makes up the vessel (though it all still strikes him as nothing short of madness). All the technology that is, save for one queer device. He is a distrustful man by nature, and as he examines it, he finds that he rather dislikes the look of the thing.

Perhaps he will dislike it even more when he inadvertently activates the "text" function on this queer device, broadcasting across the ship communication system. ]

qwertyuiop

[ Why would letters be organized in such a non-sensical manner? It seemed to him that it would not make communication any easier. Yet again, he presses the letters. ]

. . .

Q W E R T
Y U I

OP

[ It takes some time for him to notice that such is apparently being broadcast, though a small alert indicates such to him (for he could see nothing else that would cause such).

The Others take this infernal device. The Others take this infernal ship

He moves his jaw back and forth for a moment, before activating the video function, though he immediately turns it off. Who knew who (or what) might be watching.

So finally (after much teeth-grinding), he opts for the "voice" function, keeping it short and simple. ]

Speak.

[ Further answers would come in time. He would make sure of such. ]

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Yara Pyke.

[ ...the girl would have no reason to lie to him, would he not? ]

Ironborn, then. Your lady mother, was she nobility?

[ though... more than likely, she was a "salt wife", or so the ironborn called them. ]

My mother was a chambermaid at Ten Towers.

[ She wavered between making her "mother" a whore or a thrall or even a slave - perhaps a ship captain, but there were few women captains, even if she herself was one - but Alannys Harlaw deserved more than that, even in a lie. ]

House... Harlaw, is it not?

[ a pause ]

I am well acquainted with the Isles.

Oh, are you?

[ bleh bleh bleh... ]

You've not given me a name yet, m'lord. [ look at that proper verbal butchery. ] For you are, aren't you? A lord?

[ How convincing of you, Yara. He is... almost convinced, perhaps. But still distrustful as he speaks. ]

Stannis Baratheon.

[ you ought to know his titles well. for what Ironborn could forget him? ]

[ Ah. A king. ]

[ Ahaha - a king. One of many; what is it they say now a days? A king in every corner? And a queen she aspired to be, though now that she knew who he was, it seemed unwise to abandon her lie and disclose herself for the prospective opponent she was. No. Not yet. ]

Oh, I know of you. You killed my brother. [ And after an appropriately lengthy pause after that rather accusatory - and not entirely untruthful - bombshell, she adds; ] He was a part of the young Lord Greyjoy's fleet. Died in the fighting at Seaguard.

I did not kill your brother, girl.

[ well enough she recalled just who he was. though to act as though she were unaware of who he was would likely shed light on her supposed deceit. ]

Lord Greyjoy's treason killed your brother.

It was not treason. Robert Baratheon's rebellion was not treason. [ It was victorious, that's why, and she knows that - but there's a point here. ]

And he was not the one that ran my brother through with a sword. He mourned his sons death, and I mourned my brothers and both of them were killed by you.

[ what is this clever wordplay. it's just overflowing! are those plurals or possessives!?! the world may never know. ]

It was treason, no matter which way the tale was spun.

[ yes, even Robert had committed treason against Aerys. even Stannis.

and they had lived (and died) with the punishment. ]

They served a traitor lord. Their fate was unfortunate, but there is no other punishment for treason.

It was a pursuit of our freedoms, of our own way. Why should we be punished for wanting things the way they're supposed to be?

[ she's long since distanced herself from her elder brother's deaths. those were years ago and she'd been a girl - a girl who was never close to her brothers, but their loss struck their father hard and the blow reverberated off him onto those around him for years to come. ]

The way Westeros is meant to be is united under one ruler.

[ Seven Kingdoms was a folly and led only to war. His ancestor, Aegon the Dragon had seen to it that there would be something akin to peace in the Seven Kingdoms.

Even though it now bled. ]

But it's not right now, is it. Last I counted there were five kings for a time.

[ Now it's down to...three... But stilL! ]

Four false kings, and one true king.

Four and one is five. [ I know my numbers bitch. ]

Four false kings.

One true king.

There is a difference between that, and five kings.

No one can agree which is the false kings and which are the true. Usually if you just call them all kings you could avoid the conflict.

One can when the law dictates that one is the true king.

There are laws and then there are men who do not follow them. I suppose you are in the right, though - that you're the one true king.

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