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[_kinginthenorth]

At first things had not seemed terribly strange. Jeyne had been absent, but that in itself was not so unusual; nor was her having taken Reynald with her. The more time stretches on, though, the more he begins to wonder

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[queeninthenorth]

Jeyne had left Reynald with Elizabeth, seeing the other girl was all but dying to take care of the boy for a little while. Elizabeth's incessant cooing over the child had driven her mad. Well, mayhap she'd see that having a babe wasn't all fun and games like she thought it would be.

After finding some better clothes in the box--shorts, like Arya wore most of the time, along with a swimsuit--she went out and down to the beach. It was hot, and Jeyne couldn't think why she had never done this before. The others here seemed to do it all the time. Once down at the water, she stripped down to her swimsuit and jumped in.

Oh, that was nice.

She was out about waist level when she saw Robb and Grey Wind on the shore. "I wondered when you'd show up," she said, standing in the water with her hands on her hips.

[_kinginthenorth]

Robb is cautious, if still optmistic. "If I was supposed to find you," he says, "you might have tried leaving a clue."

[queeninthenorth]

"You weren't supposed to find me, really," she clarified, wading towards the shore and stopping when the water reached near knee-height. "But I knew you would at some point. Rather, that wolf of yours would." There was no getting away from those wolves.

[_kinginthenorth]

"Inevitably," Robb says calmly, though his heart's sinking. Not a good sign, really. "More to the point, where's Reynald?"