welp.

[debts]

—and we're back.

I don't think anybody's surprised.

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[seem]

You're too kind.

[ Still, he smiles, ducking his head once in something like acknowledgment. ]

As well as one can in relative solitude. This sort of listlessness ill suits me but, as you know, these are matters in which we have precious little say.

And yourself?

[debts]

[ Natasha's not a bodily speaker. But, for Petyr, she tips her chin a little, the expression akin to I'm trying to figure it out. ]

I'm not sure yet. Seeing the world, maybe. [ A beat, then she allows: ] Or saving it.

[seem]

Saving the world, [ he repeats, and one gets the impression that, were he talking to anybody else, the words would sound sarcastic. ]

That's quite magnanimous of you.

[debts]

[ She huffs out a laugh; small, quiet, bare. ]

I keep getting roped into it, if you'd believe that.

[seem]

[ Gently: ] I have heard tales of dragons, of women and men being brought back from the dead — I'm rather inclined to believe what you tell me.

[debts]

[ That, in turn, makes Natasha smile again. ]

Not many people would believe me that easily.

[seem]

I'm a soft touch.

[ Or rather, they lie to other people and to themselves with every breath, and in that recognition, there is a special; it's mutual recognition of the fact that affords them some semblance of honesty or trust. ]

[debts]

Liar.

[ Her mouth pitches. (Takes one to know one.) ]

Where are you headed? Back to dragons, stories of old?

[seem]

[ Petyr sighs at that particular question, the line of his shoulders smoothing out as the breath leaves his mouth. ]

I've very little notion, [ he confesses, in the sort of tone that suggests he isn't entirely happy with how powerless he is in the matter.

Then, in a somewhat more amused voice: ] Though I will remind you that what you consider to be stories of old are hardly old to me.

[debts]

You know, I'm usually the one saying that line.

[ Still, it's part-joke and part thought-out-loud. Nothing nearly so substantial. ]

When you figure it out, let me know. I'm due for a vacation.

[seem]

A joint vacation, then? That does make the prospect more appealing.

[debts]

[ Her lips purse, melding into a small tsk noise. ]

We know how the girls are. They like to do things in pairs.