( voice test )

[esgred]

Think just because you made one of these, you can pull me out and make me dance? I'm no puppet, and I've been rotting away in your head for longer than I care to admit. I don't do well idling away like the mainland girls.

And you have no use for me. Send me back so I can at least straighten my little brother out. You've only got me out for one reason now, and I paid no iron price to get here.

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[esgred]

[She pulls out the axe and nods.] There's always a price. Gold or Iron.

[greenjacketed]

[ his brows raise, but he makes no move. ]

Or blood, more like, with a blade like that.

[esgred]

It's what is meant. [She isn't threatening him. In this case she's only showing him what she means.]

[greenjacketed]

[ by iron? bloody hell, the bird speaks in riddles. ]

I'd sooner shillings, I think. Shillings and pounds.

[esgred]

You're not iron born.

[greenjacketed]

...I don't even bloody know what being 'iron born' bloody is, truth be told.

[ normally, he wouldn't break out the oaths in front of a lady but...eh. the lass is carrying an axe; sharpe figures a few off-colour words won't scratch much. ]

[esgred]

From the Iron Islands. [Which really gets a look from her.] Where you from?

[greenjacketed]

...England. [ then, if this is too general: ] London, by way of Yorkshire.

[esgred]

Never heard of it. Who's your lord? [It doesn't sound foreign enough to be across the Narrow Sea, but he's got her interested.]

[greenjacketed]

[ that is an exceptionally good question. ] ...King George.

[ the simple answer. the most all-encompassing one. the problem is that sharpe hasn't actually lived in any english county since his boyhood. as such, he can provide no names for lesser associated nobles. except, perhaps... ]

W-Wellington -- [ he hazards. ] The Duke of Wellington.

[esgred]

Don't know either of them. [Not of any House she knows of, even if there were five kings at one them.]

I'm Asha Greyjoy of the Iron Islands.

[greenjacketed]

And I've never heard of your Iron Island. Only...[ he pauses; considers. ] Ain't bloody Welsh or anything, are they?

[esgred]

No. Not Welsh. Never heard of that either.

[greenjacketed]

...One of those buggered other worldly places, then.

[esgred]

Yours can be the other worldly.