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[dyingisnotdead]

[The device turns on, revealing a Loras who looks...tired. He has been sleeping for two weeks (he has looked at the date), but he feels no more rested than he would, before.

He has been home. Living for months without knowledge of this place. But as he has woken up--he remembers the prophecy, the future he saw, so many weeks ago.

He knows that when he returns home, it will come true.

There is no escaping it.

So if he looks more serious, older, well. It is just the way of things, now.]

It seems while I slept, I returned home. I do not understand how it has occurred or why I have returned but--

--I can not deny the truth of it.

[He runs his free hand through his mess of curls.]

Can someone tell me what I have missed?

And--how many of you have returned home, and had no recollection of this place? Is that how it happens, always? With no way to use the knowledge of things learned here, back in our worlds?

[To avoid his fate--oh he wishes that he could.]

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[dyingisnotdead]

...that Arya has been found. And married to one Bastard of Bolton.

[He shakes his head.]

I can't speak for how true this is.

[He smiles, sadly.]

I think hoping for such a thing will only do me ill.

[needsnoheadsman]

[Oh.

Oh, gods, no.]

Ramsay Snow? They married her to--to him? [That's a lot of disbelief and rage going on there, because he knows the Boltons. He certainly knew Roose, and from what he knows, the bastard's even worse, which is an accomplishment.

But--right. Rumor. It's a foolish thing to hope that it is just a rumor, but Robb has done a lot of those in his life. What's one more?]

Gods, I hope it isn't true. [Because he knows Arya, too, and he knows she'll never agree to it, knows she'll fight, every step of the way.]

[dyingisnotdead]

The Lannisters want to maintain their hold on the North. Sadly, my family wished to marry Sansa to my brother, Willas--had we been able to do that, I think none of this would have happened.

But they thwarted out efforts.

[Loras sighs.]

I hope so as well.

[needsnoheadsman]

They do that, I've found. [He says it wryly, bitterly.] I'm not about to forget the Rains of Castamere anytime soon.

[Not when it makes such a regular appearance in his nightmares, but that's not something he'll mention out here.]

These are northmen they mean to hold. Northmen are not like to forget what happened, though they may not show it. [He can't.] Sooner or later, the Lannisters will lose it, though I've a feeling it'll be later.

[Hopefully, but he doesn't say that. Hell, maybe this is just more wishful thinking, but he likes to think he knows the North and the people who live there more than the Lannisters do.

Well.

He likes to think he knows the worth of most of the people who live there, Boltons aside.]

[dyingisnotdead]

...nor I the sight of Dragonstone.

But make no mistake, my Lord.

The Tyrells will not let the Lannisters play their games without reproach.

[Margaery may be in danger, and so may he be...but they have Tommen under their sway. And they have killed Joffrey.

Cersei's days are numbered.]