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agoge2018-04-04 08:41 pm
northerndragon) wrote in agoge2018-04-04 08:41 pm
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>>FROM:@AEGONNER >>TO:@ALL [backdated to ~a week after BASE arrival]
I have two things to speak on today.
The big white wolf is a direwolf. He's mine. His name is Ghost.
Dogs don't like him, horses don't like him, and he can bring down deer and elk. Not just can — will. He's half-wild, maybe more than half, and you won't hear him coming. He's never shown his teeth to a friend, though. If you're good to him, he'll be good to you.
The other thing — if you want to go out there, or you've been out there, and you're not used to the wilderness, time was when I was a kind of ranger. I have to tell you that I'm not used to this wilderness, but I'll help you if I can.
And if any of you want to train with swords, I'm your man for that, too.
If you're new to COST… well, ask Chiron which one I am, but looking for Ghost should give you an idea of it. I'd be pleased to meet you.
[OOC: Jon has his own log post over here for any and all recent BASE stuff, including interactions specifically with Ghost or with both of them, Jhashch training, camping (which I am pretty late on due to illness but would still love to do). You can probably have most any top level you want, if you give me a nudge -- PM,![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
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The big white wolf is a direwolf. He's mine. His name is Ghost.
Dogs don't like him, horses don't like him, and he can bring down deer and elk. Not just can — will. He's half-wild, maybe more than half, and you won't hear him coming. He's never shown his teeth to a friend, though. If you're good to him, he'll be good to you.
The other thing — if you want to go out there, or you've been out there, and you're not used to the wilderness, time was when I was a kind of ranger. I have to tell you that I'm not used to this wilderness, but I'll help you if I can.
And if any of you want to train with swords, I'm your man for that, too.
If you're new to COST… well, ask Chiron which one I am, but looking for Ghost should give you an idea of it. I'd be pleased to meet you.
[OOC: Jon has his own log post over here for any and all recent BASE stuff, including interactions specifically with Ghost or with both of them, Jhashch training, camping (which I am pretty late on due to illness but would still love to do). You can probably have most any top level you want, if you give me a nudge -- PM,
that's because Grey Wind was a Right Proper Lad <tm> (RIGHT PROPER!)
Raynald's death for Grey Wind still kills me (RIGHT PROPER!)
He...
I heard he died trying to free Grey Wind from the kennels, so the wolf could go protect Robb. He was shot with arrows getting Grey Wind free, but it was all for naught.
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[Hadn't heard it, because he'd heard about a different woman entirely... and yet, the idea of Jeyne's brother trying to save Grey Wind, trying to help Robb, twists at him and makes him feel the loss a little more fiercely again.]
It's always seemed to me that these direwolves know who their friends are, like my brother said. Ghost has always protected me and mine, and he's never been fooled by anyone who meant me ill. If Grey Wind liked your brother, he must truly have taken up my brother's side.
Your family's liege lords probably didn't like that. We both know their name.
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[There were things she hadn't told him about her family, how Raynald was the exception among them. She had been hiding the information, aware of how little Jon actually knew about this, hearing of a different woman in his world. All he had to trust was her word. Knowing of her mother might rupture that trust.
But being honest was better than concealment. It could only lead to trouble if it was found out under different circumstances.]
We should speak in person. There is more I should like to tell you about my brother and my family's liege lords.
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[And indeed, upon arrival in the mess hall, she will see that Jon is feeding something that looks approximately like a raw beefsteak to a huge white wolf... except that what oozes from the steak is the wrong color, and the texture of the thing is strangely fibrous.
Ghost attacks the steak, but not with the gusto one might expect: instead, he sniffs at it, seeming like he's trying to decide whether it's good enough to eat.]
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She shuffles around them, keeping as wide a girth as she could.]
Is it safe?
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Safe enough for a time. Don't get between him and his food.
Sit down, tell me of your brother. Or get yourself something to drink first.
[There's already a cup of something at the table -- some sort of juice that he's been drinking. He'd asked for apple, and it's only approximately apple.
The room is otherwise deserted. He wouldn't bring Ghost in here when it's full of people.]
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She peered over at the juice, deciding to collect something for herself as well. Tea was the best, it might keep her calm in this really frightening situation.]
Raynald would make fun of me for this.
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It sounds like your brother was brave. I wouldn't make fun of you... I know Ghost isn't an easy animal. And he's used to running around by himself, north and south of the Wall.
But he helped save Lord Commander Mormont from a wight once. And when I was injured, he hardly left my side.
[He doesn't mean the arrows -- Ghost was cut off from him then. He means the knife wounds, the one in his leg from Karl Tanner, and then... the other wounds.]
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You have a deep bond with him. Your siblings must have had one with their wolves too. I wonder if it's my fault that Robb was so willing to keep Grey Wind in the kennel when he visited the Twins. He grew used to doing that.
[Lady Catelyn seemed to disapprove, but she didn't seem happy about the marriage at all.]
My brother was a good man and his blood is on my mother's hands.