you could taste heaven perfectly; [OTA]

[king_in_the_north]

WHO: Robb Stark
WHERE: The field
WHEN: October 12, morning
OPEN TO: OTA
WARNINGS: n/a
STATUS: Closed to new threads

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There had come a point approximately three days ago when Robb had legitimately begun to wonder whether the rain was ever going to cease. Never in all of his life had he ever even heard of such rain, from dawn to dusk and all through the night, an unending torrent that kept the skies murky gray and made the days smudge disconcertingly into one another.

When he'd woken today, something had felt off -- Just a bit to the left of where it ought to be. It had taken several drowsy minutes of laying in his bed, listening to the earnest warbles of the early birds to realize that the strangeness was that the rain had stopped. He'd almost not believed it, had felt certain he'd step outside and find the shower was simply lighter than before, but there was nothing but an early-morning mist rambling across the lawn and the first soft rays of sunlight smearing over the broken clouds.

And gods, it was practically blissful to step down onto the front walk and stay dry. It didn't even bother him that there was now so much to do, so much time to be made up as hastily as possible. The serendipitous feeling wouldn't hold, he understood that well enough, but he might as well throw himself into what needed to be done while it lasted. Winter was coming.

He'd still not grown relaxed enough to work without a shirt on, but he was down to his sleeveless undershirt today, the white long ago turned to gray and now streaked with dirt as he applied himself to working amongst the beans in the humid mud of the field. It was early yet, but he had a feeling that the small group of them out there would quickly grow once the sun was properly up.

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[womanofvalue]

She opens her mouth to explain, but as soon as she does, she realises that she doesn't think she's ever had to explain holidays to anyone. Even during the war, the lack of them had been a point of frustration for all, but they all still knew about them. "It's a break from your regular life," she says. "Back home, I was on holiday before I arrived." True, her holiday had simply been work that Jack hadn't approved, but there's no need to talk about her flagrant disobedience.

"You don't have those where you're from?" she assumes, given his lack of knowledge on the subject.

[king_in_the_north]

"No," Robb admitted with a slight shake of his head. "And quite honestly, I'm still not certain I entirely understand. Do you mean like a festival or a tournament?"

Living as he had in Winterfell, he hadn't really had the occasion to travel for anything like that, with one notable, terrible exception that he swiftly pushed to the back of his mind. But his father had ridden in tournaments when he was young, traveling across the South with Robert Baratheon in the days before the rebellion.

[womanofvalue]

Peggy's not sure that she knows how to explain this without at least some context. "They're really meant to give you a break from your life. You go travel or relax or you do something entirely outside of your routine. I suppose, in that regard, then it might be a little like a festival or a tournament, yes," she agrees, feeling a little bad that he doesn't know, but at the same time, it's hardly like she's ever used hers for its intended purpose.

"Usually, it's quite enjoyable, though. This place...well, I don't think it quite passes muster."