004 -- voice;

[northerner]

It seems there are many from my world to be welcomed aboard after this past jump. If those of Westeros inclined to make their presence known, I would speak with all of you.

[ there's a pause. a direwolf's low whine can be heard, and robb exhales slowly. ]

And I'm sure it is already known, but the lady who called herself Aberdeen is no longer aboard.

[ and feed is cut. ]

Comments

[andblockbuster]

[Hey, it's another Westerosii. Hi, Person From The Land of Giant Wolves. TOPHER SOUNDS PRETTY SAD TODAY, because he does recall you might have been the guy who brought Aberdeen to med bay.]

Sorry I never got the chance to help her.

[northerner]

There will be those in her home who can help her now. Perhaps it is better.

[andblockbuster]

Assuming she went home.

[northerner]

Where else could she have gone. I set Grey Wind out to find her, there is no escaping the wolf once he sets out to track a scent.

[andblockbuster]

Including big steel doors and things that even the technologically advanced humans on the ship can't bust through?

I'm not saying she's still here. I doubt she's still here. And I wanna believe she's back home, but at this juncture... Do we really know for sure?

[northerner]

[ OH MY GOD TOPHER BE MORE OF A DEBBIE DOWNER. ]

Perhaps not. But if she is still here, there are only so many places to hide her. We would find her in time, wouldn't we?

[andblockbuster]

[LIFE SUCKS, KING OPTIMIST.]

I would really like to think that, because, honestly, all the alternatives suck. And I guess we do know that people can go home, even if they end up back here half the time. It's just hard to say sometimes.

...God, I really am becoming jaded.

[northerner]

[ SOME OF US THINK THE GLASS IS HALF FULL OKAY. ]

This ship wears people down. It's hard to keep up hope, I understand.