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Event Log: Home Sweet Home

Who: All characters participating in the event
What: The event log for the Home Sweet Home event
Where: All over the city
When: June 20th-July 2nd
Warnings: Nothing bad could ever happen now that you're home

It could happen at any moment- any action you do could be cut short by a sudden trancelike state, and so hopefully it happens when you're safe in your surroundings. And of course you're safe... after all, what could happen to you now that you're finally home?

Whether you don't remember Hadriel at all, or you just believe that this entire ordeal is over, you're home for good now, which is something worth celebrating. What happens in your home? Are you treated like royalty or just cast aside and forgotten? How are your friends doing? Your family? Everything is just as it should be and it's easy to get lost in it, even for an unlucky onlooker who may find themselves drawn into your trance and able to interact with you as you mill about your world and your reality.

Snapping out of it is the only way to end this trance, and you've got to eat and sleep at some point, but how can you go back now that you've been teased with what you desire (or maybe even fear) the most?

► This log covers June 20th-July 2nd.
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Grandmother did have me tutored in basic battle strategy. She thought it would prove an asset for when I was queen.

[her grandmother would like that description. making Margaery queen had been the goal since she was born and thanks to that, she'd received a wide-ranging education. from the mundane, like how to run a household, to the more . . . specialized. like knowing what kind of woman a man wanted and becoming that woman]

Renly had my brother for such things. My duties were more of the feminine variety.

[she nods] Both can be valuable in times of war, but your husband isn't doing too badly for himself on the field of battle.

I'd imagine so, given that the Karstarks were descended from family.

My mother only ever wished me to learn a lady's graces. She thought anything else would be a waste. I was going to be a wife, not anything else.

[Margaery was better suited to being a queen than she was. She didn't know anything about strategy or ruling, her knowledge of history and politics was rudimentary. What she did know, it could be found in numerous other girls.

Save for healing, that at least was hers.]

Feminine? Do you...do you mean pleasing your husband? [There were so many questions she had.] What...did you offer him when he came back from war councils, frustrated and miserable?

[She nodded gravely.]

I worry that the smear of kinslayer will follow him throughout this war and only come to harm him.

Your mother was cruel and short-sighted. She should have seen to your greater education.

[Margaery was molded into the role of the perfect queen. her tutelage was long, difficult, and often unforgiving, but she persevered, all with the crown in mind.

perhaps Jeyne could volunteer at the Clinic. they always needed healers.

she laughs] Hardly! He had Loras for that. No, my duties were to smile and be pretty and provide the wealth and power of Highgarden along with my hand in marriage. And try to seduce my husband who was utterly uninterested in women. [she smiles] Again, something he had Loras for. Though, Renly was always the optimistic sort. He didn't fear his brother at all, which I thought was foolish.

[she smiles]

I think that those who truly believe in him will continue to believe.

Not all ladies are meant to be queens.

[It was meant to tease Margaery. While she wanted to know more and have something else to offer Robb, she could only accept who she was. She fell short of the mark of an ideal bride, she understood that but there was no correcting that part of her past.]

Renly was...not interested in women? [There was talk and rumors, but she never paid much mind to that. Most of it sounded like the words of bitter rivals, seeking any means to discredit another claimant. She had dismissed them especially when she heard Margaery Tyrell married him. She was so beautiful and elegant, what any man would wish for in a wife.] You speak of it so casually.

I suppose not, but does that make your education any less valuable?

[she believes that women in Westeros should be granted the same educational opportunities as men have. she's even coming to believe that they should be given the same training at arms.

she laughs] Not even slightly. I tried every trick I could think of, but he didn't rise to the occasion. [she says with a wicked grin] We're far less judgmental about such things in the Reach.

No, I suppose not. My mother had the kindness to teach me to be a healer, at least.

[She might be only a novice and hardly someone fit to treat a patient on her own, but it was something she showed some promise for. Something beyond embroidery.]

You mean he couldn't- [Her cheeks were a burning crimson. She hid her face behind her hands as she laughed.] I heard stories that the Reach is very free. It isn't so in the Westerlands. What I have learned, I have learned from...repeated practice with Robb.

[Margaery was the first woman she could confide in. A woman who understood these mysteries. It felt so wicked to even discuss this.]

The Starks are very energetic.

That's a valuable skill to have. I know the very basics of medicine, but healing is an art I don't have.

[she can put on a great show of succoring the sick and needy, but it's all superficial]

Not with a lady present, no. [Margaery is glad to hear Jeyne laugh and joins her in laughter] And it is. In the Reach, love is love. Oh, we're still expected to marry and have children, but it's . . . understood when one's affections lay elsewhere. [Margaery raises an eyebrow playfully] Oh, did you? Robb was an able tutor?

[while Margaery was able to discuss such things easily with her grandmother. who personally saw to every aspect of Margaery's education]

Are they? You're lucky. Tommen was. . . enthusiastic, but had little endurance.

I never heard of men who were actually- I mean I heard stories but...I never thought I would recognize a man who was.

[She's feels a bit foolish saying that, but the rumors of Renly were always dismissed. Knowing they were true, she wasn't sure what to make of it all.]

Does that mean you had...lovers [the word is nearly whispered] before you were married? [Such a radical concept, it made her heart beat faster to consider it.] Robb was...unfamiliar with such things when we...we learn together.

[It was a struggle to express herself. She had been told that women didn't talk very much about this. Only with their Septa or mother before their wedding night. She knew about how animals mated, but very little about men and women. Her night with Robb was the first time she had allowed herself to consider it.]

The endurance comes later, I think. Men with their first time, they don't seem to last.

Why not? My brother was as well. We thought nothing of it, really.

[the Reach is far more liberal when it comes to sexuality, though the highborn are still expected to wed and have children.

she laughs heartily] Lovers? No. I had tutors in the arts of love and books of course, but I went to Tommen a virgin. [the tutors knew good and well that they were not to deflower the rose of Highgarden] And I take it that was nice?

[while Margaery grew up discussing such things openly with her grandmother. where do you think she got those books from? or who hired the tutors?]

Tommen tried, but he never got the knack of it. In the end, the best I could hope for was two minutes of thrusting while I pretended at ecstacy.

It must be very freeing in the Reach.

[She nearly added that her mother would have tanned her hide if she had been so liberal with love, but as soon as the thought came to mind, it was dismissed as quickly. She had already behaved wantonly and now she was Queen.]

Truly? [There was talk about Margaery, but she simply dismissed it as baseless rumors. It was a strange thing. The woman was more familiar with sex than Jeyne was, but she was the virgin on her wedding night.] It was more the feeling and not the act that I enjoyed.

[She has come to love it though, the more they learn with each other.]

That is terrible. Something you were instructed in, but never fully came to enjoy. Perhaps you will find someone else to show you what you have missed? You are free to take a lover now.

It is. It's a shame that you haven't gotten to see it yet.

[and for Margaery, it's even more of a shame that she'll never get to see it again. she's resolved to go to Earth, but part of her will always long for Highgarden]

Yes. Is it that surprising? [she knew good and well of Cersei's nickname for her, the whore of Highgarden. that was some irony, Cersei calling anyone else a whore] Well, you were fortunate enough to marry someone you cared for and was attracted to.

...I did take a lover here. He's gone now. I'm going to his world when I leave this place.

I haven't seen very much, only the Riverlands.

[And it was tarnished for her now, as barren and bleak as the soil. Tywin had not simply salted the fields, he had scorched her heart as well.]

It is. [Though not simply for what others might call her. Simply for what she knew the Reach was now.] Some might say fortunate. I have cost my husband a great deal.

Did you? Tell me of him?

And I can't imagine that what you saw there was very pleasant after Tywin Lannister unleashed the Mountain against it. [a pause] You'll have to go to Highgarden. We're in rebellion against the Lannisters now, so grandmother would give you sanctuary.

[Tywin was like that. just ask the Reynes and the Tarbecks. except you can't, of course]

I knew that my virginity was my most precious asset. A king expects his bride to be a virgin, after all. [though, there are things you can do without losing your virginity] And do you think he'd regret it?

All right, I shall. In his world, he was a masked vigilante called Daredevil, but I knew the man behind the mask. He was brave and good and he cared so much about what was right.

We faced the Null together as he was placed on their kill list for warning the others and I was on it because I told the Null to put me there. I couldn't sit idly by as the man I loved and children were being targeted.

He asked me to go to his world as I no longer have a place in Westeros. I would go even if I did.

[She looks around the camp, absorbing the scene that she knew and still prayed was real. This was an illusion, even in seeing Robb, there was an emptiness in his figure that was missing his usual spark. They were nothing more than wisps of smoke.]

I need to be rescued. [Her memories of what happened and what she faced returned briefly, interrupting this beautiful dream.] The Lannisters are escorting us back to the Crag under guard. They intend to keep me there for two years in isolation. If the Tyrells come for me, I would support your cause.

[She wished she could say whether or not Robb regretted their marriage. Her fears told her he did, but her heart knew differently.]

I think h loves me and I make him happier than he has been.

[She smiled, moved by the warmth in Margaery's voice.]

They had a kill list?

[such is the nature of the so-called gods. they can give you your fondest dream or your worst nightmare but either way, none of it lasts]

Would that I was able to send word to grandmother somehow. If I explained the situation to her, I'm sure she would have mustered the Tyrell armies. To seize the wife of the Young Wolf away from the Lannisters would be an achievement.

[then she should listen to her heart]

My beloved was the same. The weight of carrying two identities was a heavy burden to carry. I know I made him happy and I'll continue to do so when we're finally together again. [Margaery smiles a little] Besides, I've been . . . getting ready. So that when he goes out into the night to protect the innocent, he won't have to go alone.

[she's pleased to see Jeyne smile. much of the time, she seems so desperately unhappy and she's pleased to lighten her mood even a little]

They did. Anyone who so much as mocked the Null was placed on it. For two weeks, we were a target of a seemingly endless wave of killing machines.

[If only she could truly prove to be pregnant. It would make her a greater playing piece, worth at least rescue from other forces rather than a minor noblewoman and widow to a rebel king.]

Do you think your grandmother would think I was worth saving?

[She smiled. It was easier to hear the emotion in Margaery's voice when she spoke of her beloved. After three marriages that were arranged for power, happiness suited her well.]

Ready? How do you mean? You are learning to help others as he does?

[Happiness was not easy for her to find, but Margaery had a natural warmth that could extend to anyone, whether they were friends or acquaintances.]

Do you think they will attack us again?

[unfortunately, there's no way of telling here. she'd been far from celibate when she was with Matt and there were no resources for making moon tea]

Certainly, if I could tell her so. We're in rebellion against the Lannisters now and snatching you away from them would bloody their noses.

[yet she still misses him every day. she wishes she knew why the Door chose to take him without her, but she's determined to make her way back to him.

she gives Jeyne a little smile and says] I am. I begun to learn the sword soon after my arrival and I've been learning hand-to-hand combat with Sonya. By the time I leave, I should be fully prepared to fight at his side.

[it's easier here. court was so much effort all the time. smile here. laugh there. be charming, endlessly charming and never let your true feelings show, all in pursuit of a crown she barely got to wear]

I have no doubt of it. [she considers] You should have lessons in the sword as well. I can speak to Curufin to see if he'd have time to teach you?

Edited 2018-07-29 02:07 (UTC)

[It was a relief to hear that, even as she saw the world flicker around them and disappear. Robb's camp dissipated as if it was nothing more than fog on the glass. Her heart deflated, emptying of the feelings seeing Robb's face offered her.

Once more, they were on the beach. The conversation was still fresh in her mind, the only thing to remain after all else disappeared.]

The sword? Me? [She tried to brush away her sense of defeat and loss, trying to distract herself with Margaery's words.] I don't think that would be proper.

Though I should like to see you spar.

[the dream fades and so does the vision of the Young Wolf's camp. part of her wishes she could have met him, but she doubts that her reception would have been a warm one.

and now there they stand on the beach. she blinks a little, reacclimating herself to reality]

The sword. And yes, you. We cannot depend on men to defend us here. We must be able to defend ourselves. If it's improper for you, it is surely improper for me as well, not that I let that stop me.

Then you shall. I spar regularly with Curufin at the Guard Headquarters. The next time I go, I'll bring you along.

I don't know if I am ready for such a step. [A small part of her enjoyed that aspect of being a lady. While she never had a knight fight for her honor, what little girl hadn't dreamed of it?] I have other ways I think that I could use.

[Some would be...darker and down a path she didn't know if she could go. Poison seemed so sinister.]

Perhaps I will warm to it, if I watch?

Ah, but it won't wait for you to be ready. [Margaery certainly had those fantasies. now her fantasies are of fighting at the side of the man she loves to protect the innocents] Would they be of use against the Null?

[poison is a tool in one's arsenal, nothing more, but it would be useless against a mechanical foe]

Perhaps? I hope so in any case.

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