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( 03 ) video ✵ i got six friends and they all know your name

So, look, I get everybody's all jazzed about that list or whatever, and people wanna do the mourning thing. All good, have at it.

What I'm wondering though, is what we got working to find out who helped the dead dude get that way. Still pretty new around here so I don't know what you got rigged up already, but where I'm from something like this happens we mount up before there's a dead guy number two.

[ so that was... kind of a job application. if you tilt your head and squint. and to seal the deal. ]

Wouldn't mind helping out.

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[ Jaime can take needling just as well as he can dish it out. Well, almost. ]

That is my side. For whatever it may be worth to you. And before you judge it, I ought to say that they call me Oathbreaker as well as Kingslayer. I'm sure someone would be along soon to correct me if I didn't tell you myself.

Jesus, does everybody have fifteen different names where you two are from? Just saying, using the names you got makes everything real simple.

[ but kingslayer is pretty hardcore. ]

Fifteen? You do us a disservice. Twenty at least, for each man, woman, and child. And enough to spare that we can switch when we grow bored with the ones we have.

[ Yeah, Jaime finds this a pretty dumb feature of his homeland too. ]

[ that gets a genuine laugh out of faith, husky and a little bit startled, like the sound even weirds her out a little. ]

Yeah, well. I just stick with Faith.

There's a big name all on its own.

[ If Jaime wasn't from the Ren Faire, he might add "But I bet you've heard all the comments there are to make about your name already." But he is, so he does't say it and just lets his face imply it instead. ]

[ volleying back his an expression with an eyeroll of her own. yeah, she knows. ]

What can I say? Mom liked late night Jesus tv and wine coolers.

I'll do my best to pretend to know what those are. [ It's what he's been doing for months, after all! ] You may call me Jaime, if you prefer. Or Lannister. I'll answer to either.

God stuff and booze. [ yeah, faith needs dictionary accompaniment for people from her world the ren faire is sol. ] Like I said, Faith works out fine on my end.

[ wait for it. ] Hey, you ever seen-- [ she wrinkles her nose and checks something on her comm. ] The High Tower of Oldtown?

[ Jon Snow has been telling stories, hasn't he? Or was it Stark this time? Either way, Jaime doesn't quite understand why she's asking, so his eyebrows lift even though he answers anyway. ]

When I was younger. The Reach, where Oldtown sits, is just to the south of my family's home in the Westerlands, along the Ocean Road.

Super, I know what all that means. [ it takes her a second to gather up the courage to ask, and even then she's a little too casual about it. she's not great at asking for... anything, really. ] What's it look like?

Look like? [ Jaime's eyebrows furrow as he thinks back. ] It stands on an island in the centre of Oldtown, taller than any man could hope to climb. Or jump from and survive. Seven-stepped and seven-sided, rising out of the old castle of House Hightower. The fire at the top burns day and night. They say you can see it out at sea, long after you've lost sight of land.

So it's like a lighthouse on a postcard but way more badass. [ this one is a poet. ] People jump off it a lot?

The fastest way to ensure you're immortalized in the song of some minstrel somewhere. A straight plunge into the open sea? What singer or harp-plucker could resist?

[ faith's indelicate snort pretty well covers her opinion on that. ]

One who wasn't a freaking dumbass?

Ah, I can tell you've never met a minstrel. They only come in one kind.

Screwed around with a drummer once. That count?

It could. Was he a [ excuse the pause; this is a new but extremely useful sounding word ] dumbass?

Edited (a word so new i had to say it twice) 2012-08-24 02:02 (UTC)

[ faith lehane is teaching people words this will end badly. ]

Chronic case. [ ACTUALLY IT'S A LONG STORY AND HE MADE THINGS HAPPEN WITH HIS IMAGINATION because that's a thing, sure. but he was also a dumbass. ] Not as jacked up as the dude with a thing for little plaid skirts and a bullwhip, though. Guy had some issues.

[ this is totally appropriate first conversation material, what. ]

"The dude with a thing for little plaid skirts and a bullwhip." You've made a strange selection of conquests, if you don't mind me saying.

[ What are boyfriends? What is dating? ]

And I didn't even get to the klepto. [ she shrugs, shoving some hair out of her face. ] Definitely not ready to give up driving stick and bat for the other team or anything, but men are pretty much dogs.

[ beat. ] No offense.

[ "Stick and bat." This conversation is just full of useful new phrases. Jaime shrugs as well. ]

I spend far too much time listening to soldiers talk about their whores and noblemen about their bit on the side to take offense at something as clearly true as that.

[ and she hasn't even gotten into the wonderful worlds of femine hygiene and euphemisms for sex itself. ]

Soldier, huh? [ she eyes him critically, without hiding it; everybody she's seen so far from planet camelot's pretty fit, but all right. yeah, soldier works out here. ] All right, I can see it.

Soldier and a rich kid. Yeah, can definitely see that. [ ask her about her class issues! only never ever do that instead. ]

[ He's not going to ask how she figured out the rich kid part. What's a class??? Is that something to do with all those poor people who don't count???? ]

They used to say that the Lannister family was as wealthy as it was because my lord father could shit gold.

[ well honestly the hair. and the casual nobles namedrop, but mostly the hair. and u g h rich people are the worst okay. ]

Dude. [ she can't even care about the rich thing, that's just awesome. ] You sure you're a trust funder? Because you sure as hell don't talk like one.

[ very clearly this is a good thing in her mind. ]

[ Jaime smiles in acknowledgement. There's one accusation he's more than happy to admit to. ]

I admit I've never had the patience for court game. Too much talk, too little doing what needs to be done.

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