Arya had considered trying to find different shoes for this, but then she'd figured that she needed to be able to do it no matter what she had on her feet
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It's become difficult anymore to find anyone around Summerfell actually alone--or for that matter, time to be that way one's self--and by this point, Robb's given up and gone for a walk. Grey Wind had gone off, presumably hunting, some time ago and hasn't come back yet, the one upside to this being that he hasn't dropped any dead animals at Robb's feet yet.
He wanders back toward a blessedly mostly-deserted Summerfell, where Arya is standing on one foot, balancing.
"How long have you been doing that?" It's pretty impressive.
"Well," Robb says, sizing her up before glancing around Summerfell again, just to make sure nobody really is around, "as long as you're going to be there for a while, there's a thing I've been meaning to talk to you about."
Arya peered at him, lowering her leg slightly so she was slightly more upright but still on one leg.
He looked serious. Arya absently ran over a list of everything she'd been doing for something she might be in trouble for, but came up with nothing. She and Lyanna hadn't borrowed Benjen's stallion and Raif's pony for jousting - not yet, anyway - and she doubted he'd heard about her run-in with Theon...
There was one other possibility she could think of, which she was not going to have. "I'm not getting married!" she said, shaking a finger at him.
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He wanders back toward a blessedly mostly-deserted Summerfell, where Arya is standing on one foot, balancing.
"How long have you been doing that?" It's pretty impressive.
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Which would have been more helpful if she had a better idea of how to judge time by the movement of the sun.
"Half an hour," she declared, on the basis that it had to be at least that. "Syrio always said a water dancer could stand on a single toe for hours."
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He looked serious. Arya absently ran over a list of everything she'd been doing for something she might be in trouble for, but came up with nothing. She and Lyanna hadn't borrowed Benjen's stallion and Raif's pony for jousting - not yet, anyway - and she doubted he'd heard about her run-in with Theon...
There was one other possibility she could think of, which she was not going to have. "I'm not getting married!" she said, shaking a finger at him.
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