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[suspiciouslyabsent]

You'll see, soon there'll be a new book and me and Shaggy will go to Winterfell and kill the traitors with Lord Manderly, and no one will think you're clever.

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[suspiciouslyabsent]

[he nods sollemnly.]

They won't last the winter.

[toivory]

What is it that our father always used to say? [She prompts him.]

[suspiciouslyabsent]

[he screws up his face in thought.]

Winter is coming?

[toivory]

And don't forget it.

[suspiciouslyabsent]

I never, You're the one who tried to be someone else.

[toivory]

...
Would you have rather me have been a Lannister?

[suspiciouslyabsent]

[he shakes his head.]

We'll find you another wolf.

[toivory]

I don't want any wolves but my own family.

[She couldn't break his heart, tell him how they had indeed, made her a Lannister.]

[suspiciouslyabsent]

The wolves are family. There has to be more.

[toivory]

Lady is gone, and Grey Wind. I don't know of Nymeria or Ghost or Bran's wolf.

I only want my siblings back, our parents. I would trade Lady a thousand times for them each.

[suspiciouslyabsent]

You can't. They're gone--Mother and Father and Robb. But the wolves will come again. Us, and you. It doesn't matter what we want. We have to be the wolves. It's the best way.

[toivory]

Rickon...
[She frowns, looking at him.] Rickon, sweetling, I don't understand...

[suspiciouslyabsent]

That's why you need your wolf!

[toivory]

Lady is dead, Rickon. Father killed her before we ever reached King's Landing. She's gone, and I am hardly a Stark anymore.

[suspiciouslyabsent]

You are. You are. I already said, we'll find you another wolf.

[toivory]

It won't be the same.

[suspiciouslyabsent]

It'll be better than it is now.

[toivory]

[She sighs.] Find me my wolf, then, Rickon. A beautiful girl. Perhaps she will become Alayne.