voicetest. not sorry at all.

[nedstarksbastard]

You drag me from my duty and my Sworn Brothers, at a time when I need to be at the Wall, for a jape. And you have no plans for me besides that.

[A beat, during which he lets out a frustrated breath.]

Send me back. I'll not stay here if you'll have no use of me.

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[pimping]

Passing by Mole Town, I suppose? There must be quite the gold rush if you're so intent on making haste.

[nedstarksbastard]

Not quite, my lord. I've other matters to attend to.

[Lord Baelish. As if Jon hasn't had to deal with enough already, being the new Lord Commander.]

[pimping]

Particularly pressing? Has the wall begun to weep in your absence? A fine wife you've taken. Fair and frigid.

[nedstarksbastard]

[There is truth to the mockingbird's words, as much as he hates to admit it. He said the words, after all--he'll never have a wife. The Wall is the closest thing he'll have to it.]

They're more important than whatever my lady mundane has planned for me. [Which isn't much. She's too busy with Robb, apparently, though he is glad for the opportunity to see his brother again.]

[pimping]

To forsake a woman in her time of need is a great crime, wouldn't you say? Then again, you lose your head for breaking a vow, not breaking a heart.

i regret everything

[catelynstark]

Jon Snow... [Catelyn is fresh from her conversation with Talisa, in the middle of their journey to Riverrun. She is still filled with guilt over her treatment of her husband's bastard -- she betrayed her promise to the gods and failed to love him. If only she had, then all this pain and misery wouldn't have befallen her family.:'(] Demands do not become a man of the Night's Watch.

[nedstarksbastard]

She has no need of me, save for a jape. And I am a man of the Night's Watch, I've sworn not to take any wives.

[He'd broken them, though--he had to. Ride with them, eat with them, Qhorin Halfhand had told him, and with Ygritte...they had called her kissed by fire, and lucky for it, but it hadn't helped her.]

[pimping]

The bastard thinks himself too lofty to play the fool now. Don't let it go to your head, boy.

[a_wager_won]

Make haste, Jon Snow! The Wall might walk in your leave. It is only weighty and steadied and cumbersome when there are no bastards to chase it. Else, a Targaryen dragon parts the skies, plops down and lends it its wings.

NOPE NO REGRETS

[nedstarksbastard]

Lady Stark.

[It's civil and courteous, nothing more. He's grown far too used to the Lady Stark's coldness.]

No, but I've found my lady mundane won't listen to anything that isn't a demand. [And even then it's hit-and-miss.]

[nedstarksbastard]

[He left Winterfell a boy, but he's said the words, seen too much of death and darkness to be one now.]

I only speak the truth, my lord. [Between the wildlings and the wights and King Stannis, he can't afford to play the fool for anyone, much less his mundane.]

[pimping]

Lies would serve you better.

[nedstarksbastard]

I would think even a dragon would have trouble lifting the Wall, my lord.

[Well, he hasn't seen the Imp in a while.]

[a_wager_won]

Be sure to lend me your wisdom on that, when next you chance upon a dragon.

You look cold, pained, grim and burdened by your vows. For a Stark, I imagine that passes for health. Am I wrong?

[daughter_of_death]

I feel as if I'm looking in a mirror.

no regrets.

[etiquettes]

Jon?

[ she's slightly hesitant. ]

You're right, you shouldn't be here.. [ but neither should she. the king... ]

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

You could make your own plans. [She's a little afraid he won't recognize her, but she can't not say something.]

[nedstarksbastard]

[Of course he'd recognize her, grimy and dirty as she is, with her hair cut short, though it takes a moment.]

Arya? [Gods, look at you.]

[nedstarksbastard]

Aye, I shouldn't, yet I'm here all the same. [Against his will.]

[etiquettes]

( please, Sansa, continue stating the obvious. )

How .. go things on the Wall and in the North? ( she might as well ask, since he's here. the Queen doesn't permit her news. )

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

[It's almost a relief, to hear him say her name. She's been hiding it for so long, that for a moment, she doesn't know if she should deny it or not.]

Are you going back to the Wall?