001 ❄ AUDIO

[thepointyend]

I wanted to go to the Wall, stupid. I don't care about devices. I only want to know where the docks are. And where Saltpans went.

[There's a slight pause, after which the girl speaking only sounds more agitated.] How can I ask this to explain? It doesn't know anything. You don't, either, if you think this can talk to me. I'll find someone else if you're too stupid to help me. I bet you don't even know what direction north is.

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voice;

[7thborn.livejournal.com]

I'm talking like anyone would talk.

[Pause.]

You've got that, er, little box thing, right? That'll be how you can talk to other people. Sort of like a—erm—telephone? D'you have those in your world?

[Merlin's beard, a witch still finding her footing in a lot of ways with Muggle technology explaining it to a girl who... doesn't have anything like it. This'll be lovely.]

voice;

[needleofmyown.livejournal.com]

I don't think so. What's a telephone?

[Arya sounds no less confused than she did before. Ginny was clearly the best person to ask for an explanation from.]

voice;

[7thborn.livejournal.com]

Er... it's a thing that lets you talk to someone far away. These devices sort of work like that. Take me, for instance, I'm sitting in my bedroom but I can still talk to you.

[Pause. Okay, how to... hmm. She sounds so young.]

I'm Ginny, by the way. Are you alright?

voice;

[needleofmyown.livejournal.com]

Like a raven, only without writing?

I'm fine. I just need to know where the docks are.

voice;

[7thborn.livejournal.com]

You use ravens for letters? [Ginny sounds rather pleased, if a little surprised.] We use owls, back home. That's brilliant.

[And then she comes to yet another pause, thinking. Docks? They haven't got any around here. Not that she's seen, anyway. Just the beach and beyond that... Well, Merlin knows how far you can really go.]

I don't know where the docks are. I'm not entirely sure there are any, here. Has anyone told you where this is?

voice;

[needleofmyown.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've seen an owl take letters. What do they use here?

Not properly.

voice;

[7thborn.livejournal.com]

These things, usually, or telephones. I've got an owl, though. Hard habit to break.

[Yeah. Technology. It's sort of a see-it-to-believe-it thing.]

Well, then. It's called the City and it's sort of a... it's a completely different world from home. So whatever it is you're expecting to find or get to—afraid to say that's still where you're from.

voice;

[needleofmyown.livejournal.com]

Ravens sound easier.

[She doesn't understand this communicator thing in the slightest. She's not sure she likes it just yet.]

Then how do I get back there?

voice;

[7thborn.livejournal.com]

[Wait until they start turning on when you don't want them to, Arya. Ginny dislikes them too.]

You can't. [She tries to say this as gently as possible. But she won't lie to the girl, either.] That's up to the deities or the City itself.

voice;

[needleofmyown.livejournal.com]

Cities don't decide anything.

voice;

[7thborn.livejournal.com]

This one does. It's... I mean, whether or not you believe in magic, I think that's what it is.

voice;

[needleofmyown.livejournal.com]

You think the city can think?

voice;

[7thborn.livejournal.com]

I think the City isn't a normal one.

voice;

[needleofmyown.livejournal.com]

Well, I know that. Most cities you have to go to instead of appearing in.

voice;

[7thborn.livejournal.com]

[Hmm. Arguable.]

So you haven't got magic in your world, then?

voice;

[needleofmyown.livejournal.com]

[There was Jaqen H'ghar... Arya still isn't sure how he managed any of the things he did. He could even change his face.]

Maybe. I don't know.