Cuts deeper than swords.

[lonewolflives]

She'd come very close to cutting off her hair that morning, to simply hacking it all off with a knife. She'd been growing it for years, had only started growing it to prove a point to Lyanna. Why she'd kept it up after Lyanna had disappeared, she didn't know. What she did was that know the damn stuff went past the small of her back and took far

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[_kinginthenorth]

Seeing Arya train is not unusual. Seeing Arya shout and fight like a (not nearly as small as she once was) thundercloud isn't that strange either. But Robb has known her, after all, for her entire life. There's a difference between adrenaline and anger.

"You all right?" he asks, skipping over the pleasantries and the comments about what crimes the flying discs might have committed and getting right to the point.

[lonewolflives]

She had, briefly, considered leaving Summerfell, trying to get some distance there. She'd thought about it, and dismissed it, since then she knew the first thing she'd do every morning was go and check.

"That's a stupid question," she pointed out, plucking Romance out of the sand and checking the blade.

[_kinginthenorth]

And she wouldn't be the only one. It's long past the time when they can make each other worry.

"All right," Robb says. This is an Arya he's used to dealing with, whatever that says about them. "What's wrong?"

[lonewolflives]

"What do you think," she said, slamming Romance home in its scabbard. "Duo. This place, it's this fucking place."

[_kinginthenorth]

"Oh." Robb can't say he's surprised. He knows by now there's not really anything you can say, not really, but has been thinking about this particular one himself a bit lately. "I know. It feels all wrong, him going."

[lonewolflives]

"Five fucking years," she said. "And still, just like that. I hate it."

Obviously, but the obvious was about all she had.

[_kinginthenorth]

It's obvious but it's also true. "It's a little different. Fitting," Robb says, in the voice of someone who has been working very hard to convince himself of that very thing. "He fell out of a whole in the sky, coming here, after all." His expression suggests this has not actually helped a lot.

[lonewolflives]

"It is just like him," Arya said, but with more anger. Not necessarily at Duo, but it was there, and she'd have certainly liked to take it out on him. "Showy."

[_kinginthenorth]

As long as it's not Robb she's angry at, he can deal with it. And when it comes to people disappearing, can definitely understand it. "Yes," he says, and waits a little, in case there's more.