A loss too keenly felt

May 04, 2008 02:44

It has been more than a week since Catelyn disappeared from the island, and her eldest son is finding no easier rest than he had the day they discovered her gone. He has slept little, haunted by losses and wounds he had thought long since scabbed over, staunched if not healed. When he closes his eyes he hears her voice as he knows it--on the ( Read more... )

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queeninthenorth May 4 2008, 18:34:53 UTC
Jeyne woke the instant Robb did; she sat up, turning to him, and put her hand lightly on his chest. "It's all right," she murmured, though it wasn't, not really. Lady Catelyn's disappearance had hit hard, and Robb was nigh inconsolable. It was a familiar feeling, to watch him mired in misery and know naught to help him, and this time she did not have his lady mother to turn to for advice.

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_kinginthenorth May 4 2008, 18:55:22 UTC
The words ring as empty now as they ever have, but Robb knows, with a small measure of added guilt, that Jeyne simply does not know what else to say. Neither does he, though, or anything--conversations on the subject between any of the family are as likely to end in flat silence as in words.

"I'm sorry," he whispers, finding her hand in the darkness. Like her soft it's all right, it is all he has to offer.

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queeninthenorth May 4 2008, 19:08:24 UTC
"Don't apologise," she said quietly. When he took her hand, she held it tightly. She missed Lady Catelyn very much, but no matter how much she missed her, she knew Robb missed her a thousand times more. It was not like with her own mother, who she did not care to see ever again, for Lady Catelyn was a good woman, and Robb had adored her--and she had always been kind to Jeyne, something Jeyne would never forget.

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_kinginthenorth May 4 2008, 20:50:53 UTC
He pulls her hard against him, gripped with an irrational fear of losing her as well--of losing anyone, for as much as he tells himself most days that he has come to terms with the capricious cruelty of the island, there is nothing to make up for the loss of his family all over again. "I don't know how to stop it," he whispers helplessly into her hair.

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